Did you know that for over a year, Big in Japan has provided WordPress support services to clients both large and small. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, partnered with Big in Japan last year.
Specifically, we have experience supporting WordPress based blogs hosted on our systems or on those of other vendors including WordPress.com. We also have experience integrating CSS and HTML from great designers such as Mule Design and Hyku into WordPress. Finally, we have built and customized various plugins to make WordPress work the way you need it.
If it is WordPress we can help (sorry we don’t do MovableType*). From custom development, installation and support we can make your blog big in Japan ~ big wherever you want…
*we can; however, migrate your MT blog to WordPress!
Posted by admin | November 22, 2006 - 3:35pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: hyku, movabletype, mt, mule, Social Media, WordPress
Om Malik reminds us that Amazon’s Alexa service is having downtime issues (14 hours in November) as well as their S3 and EC2 system. We are excited about the ability to use both S3 and EC2 as a solution for usage spikes, but Om’s warning is well taken. Our current thinking is that S3 and EC2 are good solutions, but they should not be your ONLY solution. We are building S3 and EC2 into our operation, but we will be pushing the data at the “right service at the right time” ~ just how we do that might turn out to be an interesting service. Imagine a control panel that could help you do least cost routing of processing and storage based on any number of factors.
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Posted by admin | November 22, 2006 - 8:20am | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: amazon, ec2, s3, Social Media
The social web is creating great opportunities for product research. Paul Kedrosky has been suggesting that web services will be “honey pots” for data. He explains, “Usage of such services throws off wonderfully rich data that is almost certainly of use to someone, but too often it is not captured and represented in a usable form.”
Paul gets his wish. Our favorite social picture service, Flickr, is now letting us all have a peak into picture meta-data. The feature is called camera finder as explained by Stewart (founder of Flickr):
See the most popular cameras on Flickr, search by camera model, check our macro, portrait, night and action shots from each model, see the trends for camera usage by manufacturer and find reviews and pricing information – it’s like a whole, um, camera finder on a web site! If you’re curious about the capabilities of a new cameraphone, how good the little point and shoots are going or what people are using the latest digital SLRs for, it’s a pretty fantastic resource.
Paul suggests that the data generated from your web application (i.e. for example Pingomatic) might be worth more than the actual service. Be careful with your data, but remember it is likely very valuable.
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Posted by admin | November 22, 2006 - 8:03am | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: flickr, Social Media, socialpictures
In a move that reflects the current direction of the Big in Japan business, we are launching our first true tool set ~ an API to allow web applications to build in robust voice features that are built, managed and hosted by Big in Japan. Big in Japan doesn’t want to build the applications you use, we want to make the applications your deliver better! Think BASF for web services.
We have been providing Voice 2.0 integrated applications as dedicated services for quite some time. Now we are offering a robust API (application programming interface) that allows any web developer or application developer to integrated custom phone features into their application. The first API provides hooks into our Podcall system. The API work regardless of the web technology (Ruby on Rails, PHP, Flash and of course simple HTML to name a few). Want to offer this sort of functionality found on Google:
Originally built to allow for quick and easy integration for Courtney Cox’s new television show Dirt, the Big in Japan team is opening the API for any developer who needs access to a telephone system. What can it do? The possibilities are endless. Start with simple functions like providing messages or wake-up calls to your users or clients. Then build interesting dating applications to connect people together. Or create robust identity verification system for your services for payment processing or demographic data collection. The system is robust and the applications are limitless.
Posted by admin | November 17, 2006 - 2:23pm | No Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: api, biggu, dirt, fancast, podcall, Podcast, Social Media
Posted by admin | November 15, 2006 - 2:26pm | No Comments
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