<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18px; "><h3 class="storytitle" id="post-68" style="background-color: inherit; line-height: normal; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-size: 16px; font-family: '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Dec. 22, Tokyo IT Newspaper published this year's buzz word ranking. (<a href="http://itnp.net/category_betsu/24/2167/">http://itnp.net/category_betsu/24/2167/</a>)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span></h3><div class="storycontent" style="font: normal normal normal 100%/normal '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; clear: right; "><p style="font: normal normal normal 90%/175% '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ranking is done in Sumo Ranking style and they are Ranked as "Yokozuna (Grand Champion)", "Ozeki (Champion, 2nd highest rank)", "Sekiwake (Junior Champion, 3rd highest rank)" etc.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 90%/175% '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This year, Yokozuna was iPhone, which was no surprise since it was the first year in Japan. Ozeki was Google Street View, which is no surprise either.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 90%/175% '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What surprised me though was the 3rd highest rank, Sekiwake, which turned out to be OpenID. It ranked higher than NetBooks (eePCs etc.) or Google Chrome, etc.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 90%/175% '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anyhow, it is good to hear something that is assuring of our marketing activity.</span></p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 90%/175% '¥Ò¥é¥®¥Î³Ñ¥´ Pro W3', Osaka, Verdana, '£Í£Ó £Ð¥´¥·¥Ã¥¯', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For more details, see </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=68">http://www.sakimura.org/en/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=68</a></span></span></p>
</div></span><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>