Right. We have to do it. <div><br></div><div>I will try to write something up once my new year holiday ends... too much family obligations right now ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>=nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Drummond Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net">drummond.reed@cordance.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><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.</span></font></p>
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<p><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?</span></font></p>
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<p><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">
<a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">general-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces@openid.net" target="_blank">general-bounces@openid.net</a>] <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
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Nat Sakimura;
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<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></p>
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<p><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
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<p><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?</span></font></p>
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<p><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" target="_blank">drecordon@sixapart.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><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
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Dec 27, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:</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"></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"></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"></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"></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"></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"></span></font></p>
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