SF New Tech’s monthly gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 is JAPAN NIGHT, highlighting some amazing Japanese start-ups. Some of the companies presenting include:
Nulab Inc. Masanori Hashimoto, CEO
Cacoo is a user friendly collaborative online drawing tool for creating a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and
network charts. Cacoo supports 18 languages and is used by more than 130,000 users in 120 different countries. http://cacoo.com/ @cacooapp
KAYAC Inc.Daisuke Yanasawa, CEO
Renengo is a numberless calling smartphone application where you can talk to friends for free with a Facebook account. Future plans are to release an Android version, which will provide free calls between iPhones and Androids.
http://reengo.me/en/ @Reengo_me
MoSo, inc. Shinji Murakoshi, CEO
Moso is a new application that makes editing and sharing videos, easy and fun. Its free to download at http://www.mosoapp.com.
L is B Corp – Taisuke Yokoi, CEO
Feel on analyzes your Twitter timeline with its unique Social Emotion Engine(SEE) and shows each tweet with a emotionally matched comic character and color. http://www.feel-on.com @cimmonkun_ja
EC Studio – Toshiyuki Yamamoto, CEO
ChatWork is a cloud-based business chat tool that addresses the communication problem caused by traditional email and chat services. ChatWork replaces inefficient email and chat services with built-in group task management and group file sharing. Since ChatWork lives in the cloud, your data remains perfectly in sync whether you login from a desktop PC, a laptop, or your smartphone.
http://www.chat-work.com/en @ec_studio
Rakuraku.com – Sadao Adachi, CEO
BeauteCam is an iPhone skin condition check application that uses a special 30x lens to attach to an iPhone. https://www.myhada.net/pc/myhada.php @myhada
Renee Blodgett is the founder of We Blog the World. The site combines the magic of an online culture and travel magazine with a global blog network and has contributors from every continent in the world. Having lived in 10 countries and explored nearly 80, she is an avid traveler, and a lover, observer and participant in cultural diversity.
She is also the CEO and founder of Magic Sauce Media, a new media services consultancy focused on viral marketing, social media, branding, events and PR. For over 20 years, she has helped companies from 12 countries get traction in the market. Known for her global and organic approach to product and corporate launches, Renee practices what she pitches and as an active user of social media, she helps clients navigate digital waters from around the world. Renee has been blogging for over 16 years and regularly writes on her personal blog Down the Avenue, Huffington Post, BlogHer, We Blog the World and other sites. She was ranked #12 Social Media Influencer by Forbes Magazine and is listed as a new media influencer and game changer on various sites and books on the new media revolution. In 2013, she was listed as the 6th most influential woman in social media by Forbes Magazine on a Top 20 List.
Her passion for art, storytelling and photography led to the launch of Magic Sauce Photography, which is a visual extension of her writing, the result of which has led to producing six photo books: Galapagos Islands, London, South Africa, Rome, Urbanization and Ecuador.
Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, an initiative that brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders, bloggers, creators, curators and influencers to other countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public in order to educate, share, evaluate, and promote innovative technologies.
