PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Looking at Downtown From West Seattle

5月

11日

I took a guest to see Seattle downtown from West Seattle, Alki Beach. Here is the picture I took. Unfortunately, it started to rain when I got there. When is the sun coming out???

Click on the picture to enlarge.

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Cheez Burger

5月

9日

I went to NWEN breakfast meeting this morning to listen to the founder of Pet-Holding which owns and operates www.icanhascheezburger.com site. His name is Ben Huh. If you have never heard of this site, you should visit it. And if you are like me, you would say, it is cute but so what. Do you know this site is one of the most growing sites in the world and have more than 9.5 million visitors every month?

To put his venture in perspective, when you Google cheese burger, this site will come up on top. And this is done organically, not by advertising with Google. I was really pleased with the presentation he gave and was informative and very interesting. I actually learned some things this morning.

Companies like Netflix, at&t and Dominos advertise on this site. He talked about the business model. It was really interesting. At the bottom of this post, you will see the link to the presentation he used this morning.

http://www.benhuh.com/nwen.pdf

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icanhascheezburger.com

5月

8日

Have you ever heard of icanhascheezburger.com? If so you are ahead of the curve. Tomorrow morning, Northwest Entrepreneur Network (http://www.nwen.org/) will host a breakfast meeting in Bellevue, Washington. The guest speaker of this meeting is Ben Huh. Ben is the CEO of Pet Holdings which is the creator of icanhascheezburger.com.

icanhascheezburger.com is a web site that is based on the blog engine that people can post the picture of cats with a little comment.

So what? You may ask.

Well, this site is ranked around 2,500th in the world with millions of visitors everyday. The company has only 11 people I need to know what is happening here. I wil be at the NWEN breakfast. If you are coming, look me up.

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Apple's 1 Button Mouse

5月

7日

Many PC users tell me that they do not like Macintosh because it comes with 1 button mouse. I thought so when I started using Mac two years ago. But I came to realize very quickly, you could use standard PC 2 button mouse with Mac. It works just like a PC. Also, you can hold down Control key when you click on the mouse, it will make the 1 button mouse act like right click.

Although it is true that 2 button mouse is better than 1, I guess Apple wants to make sure they are different from PC. It is much like Porsche keeps it 911s engine in the rear of the car. They want to keep their identity and I respect that.

#Computer #Internet

Novelty Goods (USB HUB)

5月

7日

I received this USB hub from the seminar that I attended. This comes in handy. Thanks to:

http://www.timeequipment.com/

http://www.pcbennettconsulting.com/

http://www.persystconsulting.com/

http://www.madronasg.com/

http://www.imajnet.com/

for hosting the seminar.

#Business #Marketing

Using Linked In for your business.

5月

7日

Today, we had LinkedIn seminar at Washington Athletic Club hosted by Jeff Riley of Dinerware (http://www.dinerware.com/) There are over 30 people attended this seminar. It shows how much interest business people have in the social media.

#Computer #Internet

iMac Problem

5月

6日

This is the second day that I am using iMac. I found one problem. The monitor is too bright. It is not easy on my eyes. I set the brightness to the lowest setting, but it is very bright. I wish I could turn it down little more.

#Computer #Internet

iMac is here!

5月

5日

Some of you know that I am a Macintosh user. I use Macintosh because it does everything I need to do easier than PC / Windows. I use Microsoft Office on My Mac.

I purchase 24" iMac and it was delivered today. I transfer all application and data from the backup made bay Time Machine. It took only 45 minuets from the time I took the iMac out of the box to the current state. That was really quick.

#Computer #Internet

The sky is falling

5月

4日

The sky is falling

It does sound like the end of the world is coming if we don't do something. I am talking about H1N1 flu media coverage in Japan. In the US, media started to understand that the media blown the flu scare out of proportion. However, in Japan, media is still going strong about this flu.

Japanese government issued the statement saying not to travel to flu-infected countries including the US. Japanese government even issue statement asking people to stack up on water and food and stay in house.

One of our customers could not come visit us this month because of this government warning.

FNN NEWS WEB (JAPAN)

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New and improved PSPINC Web Page

5月

2日

We are very happy to announce that we just updated and deployed PSPINC web site. (http://www.pspinc.com/) Although we build web sites for living, developing a Web site for non-paid customer, us, has very low priority. So, it took really long time. But, we are finally done. Please come take a look and let me know what you think.

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