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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Congrats on this news, Nat. It’s
clear OpenID Japan is being highly successful in getting good buzz for OpenID in
the Japanese market.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In addition to Chris’ questions, are
there particular factors about the Japanese market that you think are involved?
What would be required for this to catch on elsewhere?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>=Drummond <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
general-bounces@openid.net [mailto:general-bounces@openid.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Messina<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 28, 2008
9:06 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Nat Sakimura;
david@sixapart.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> OpenID List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re:
[OpenID]“OpenID” selected as the 3rd runner up in the 2008 IT Buzz
Words in Japan.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I'm wondering how we could repeat this success in the US and
elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Nat, can you point to any specific outreach/advocacy that lead to this?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM, David Recordon <<a
href="mailto:drecordon@sixapart.com">drecordon@sixapart.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This is great news! It's really amazing to see how OpenID
continues to take off in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>--David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h3 style='margin:0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background-color:inherit'><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-weight:normal'>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></font></b><font
size=1 color="#666666" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h3>
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<p><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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></font><font color="#666666" face=Verdana><span
style='font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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></font><font color="#666666" face=Verdana><span
style='font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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></font><font color="#666666"
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Anyhow, it is good to hear something that is
assuring of our marketing activity.</span></font><font color="#666666"
face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>For more details, see </span></font><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'><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></font><font
color="#666666" face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#666666'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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-- <br>
Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
<a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/" target="_blank">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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