Asiajin.com, Narabe.com and pro-blogger for Cybozu Labs
Japan
- Current
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- Director at Narabe
- Author (Co-founder) at Asiajin
- Blogger at Cybozu Labs
- Past
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- Director of engineering at Cybozu Corporation (US)
- Software Engineer at PFU Limited
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Akky Akimoto’s Summary
Originally a software engineer changing to be a professional blogger/entrepreneur.
Developing and testing some web services including Wikipedia-for-comparison-chart Narabe, and a secret projects.
As a blogger, writing Japanese tech blog for Cybozu Labs for 3 days per week. The blog got an Alphablogger 2006 awards which is for A-list bloggers in Japan. In 2007 started an English tech blog about Japanese Web/IT news, Asiajin with Shunichi Arai.
[Books]
- "PHP x Web Services API connections", Softbank Creative, 2006
- "Cho-kiwameru PHP", Shoeisha, 2006
- "Practical Web2.0", Impress, 2007
- "Marugoto PHP vol.2", Impress, 2007
[Web Media]
- Series column "Web Creator's tips", Japan Internet Com
- Series column "Alexa experts", Markezine, Shoeisha
- Series column "IT Labs in Japan", ITMedia
- Series column "Mashup and API latest news", Mashupedia, Vector
- and many tech/web-marketing columns on Nikkei IT Pro, Broadband Watch(Impress), PHP Pro (Asial), etc.
[Contest Judge]
- Yahoo! Japan's Web API mashup awards #1, contest judge
- Sun Microsystems and Recruit's Mashup Awards 4, contest judge
Akky Akimoto’s Specialties:
Package software release management, C++/Java/PHP+symfony, software I18n/M17N including multi-timezone handling.
Weblog marketing and SEO in Japanese websphere. Alexa and other access traffic system consulting.
Akky Akimoto’s Experience
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Director
Narabe
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Narabe is a CGM which is like Wikipedia but the format is comparison chart. You may add/vote several products/services/people with others to make consensus. Please see http://narabe.com/ to play around!
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Author (Co-founder)
Asiajin
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Asiajin.com is an English group weblog about IT/Web news in Japan and Asia. Is is run by group of people who want to introduce Asia-local internet services and technologies to the world.
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Blogger
Cybozu Labs
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Additional Information
Akky Akimoto’s Websites:
Akky Akimoto’s Interests:
Web services, Software Internationalization, Build automation, Manga Comics
Akky Akimoto’s Honors:
Alphablogger 2006 (Japan A-list blogger ranking) #15
