I'm wondering how we could repeat this success in the US and elsewhere. <div><br></div><div>Nat, can you point to any specific outreach/advocacy that lead to this?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM, David Recordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drecordon@sixapart.com">drecordon@sixapart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">This is great news! It's really amazing to see how OpenID continues to take off in Japan.<div><br></div><div>--David</div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:Verdana;line-height:18px"><h3 style="background-color:inherit;line-height:normal;font-weight:bold;padding-top:7px;padding-bottom:6px;font-size:16px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:21px"><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/" target="_blank">http://itnp.net/category_betsu/24/2167/</a>)</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br>
</span></h3><div style="clear:right"><p> <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><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><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><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Anyhow, it is good to hear something that is assuring of our marketing activity.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">For more details, see </span><span style="font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=68" target="_blank">http://www.sakimura.org/en/modules/wordpress/index.php?p=68</a></span></span></p>
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