http://www.o-creative.com/blog Visual Identity, Branding and Marketing from Tokyo Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:42:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came across this video recently on YouTube. It’s an interview with David Ogilvy, commissioned more than 30 years ago by the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Looking at the size and strength of Ogilvy and Mather now it’s fascinating to hear David Ogilvy reminisce about it as the small agency ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/an-interview-with-david-ogilvy/ If something goes wrong with your product, it's essential that the user know how to make things better, and soon. This is very true with websites. If I can't figure out how to navigate, I leave. If something takes too long to load, I leave. Web users are impatient. This afternoon ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/unhelpful-error-messages-bad-interface-design-annoyed-users/ Asiajin is reporting that Softbank Mobile has decided to release a 1-seg television tuner for the iPhone in Japan. According to the post, the 80 gram external device will hit the market sometime in mid-December and will double as a battery lifetime extender. Apparently a retail price has not yet ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/softbank-mobile-announces-december-release-of-1-seg-iphone-tuner/ Google released its Chrome browser three days ago, though we don't have a Mac version yet (and there's no word on when that may come). Regardless, I gave it a whirl on my Windows machines after reading what Google's Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson had to say about the browser ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/googles-chrome-browser-is-released/ On August 26, BusinessWeek published an article with the curious title Japan's Mixi Tops Facebook and MySpace. Of course, this is only true in Japan; Mixi has 15 million users - mostly in Japan, while MySpace boasts 150 million users globally. Mixi, however, wants to change that ratio. The article begins ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/mixi-looks-to-expand/ If you're blogging for your business (as you should be!), you're probably always looking for more traffic and attention. This can always be difficult with business blogging, since there has to be a layer of promotion put on top of the actual blogging itself. Of course, some posts on a ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/japansoc-social-bookmarking-site-japan/ In the wake of the G8 summit up in Hokkaido, the always excellent PingMag has run a survey of the visual arts scene up in the north of Japan. Scroll down for a view of the impressive bags done by the Hokkaido Tourism Bureau... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/pingmag-on-visual-arts-in-hokkaido/ According to this morning's Nikkei, customers are actually standing in line outside of Softbank's Harajuku location in Tokyo. Of course, they're waiting for the new iPhone 3G to go on sale, which it will at 7am Friday. In what looks like a clever marketing/PR move, the Harajuku location will be putting ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/iphone-japan-line-harajuku/ Webpro News has an interesting post today on the topic of who retains legal ownership of blog comments. Although we've yet to see any blockbuster court cases centered on this issue, it's only a matter of time before one comes up. Webpro News spoke with Tyler T. Ochoa, a law professor ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/who-owns-copyright-to-blog-comments/ This afternoon, Softbank announced on its website that it has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan. Although there were few details, the press release said that it will be released later this year. Given that Softbank only sells 3G models, it looks like Apple is going ... http://www.o-creative.com/blog/softbank-to-sell-apple-iphone-japan/