WordPress Communityin Japan

Naoko McCrackenWordCamp NYC 2009 - November 14, 2009

Naoko “now-co” McCrackenHappiness Engineer

WordPress | Automattic

naoko@automattic.comhttp://blog.detlog.org/twitter: @naokomc

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Economy: 2nd largest

Population: 128 million (10th place)

Internet: High-Quality & Cheaper

Blogging is Big in Japan.

27 million blog accounts.

20.5 Billion Page Views.

Are Blogs different?

Gadgets/TechNews

CelebrityDiary

Translated Contents

Mobile Web is Big in Japan.

Cell Phone = Essensial Communication / Entertainment tool

Yuriko Ikeda (Yuriko.net)

WordPress Mobile Plugins

Ktai Style & Ktai Entry

Japanese WordPress Plugins

Contact Form 7

wp-kougabu

TwitPic Clone

Cacoo.com

WordCamps & Meetups

WordCamps in Japan

September 08: WordCamp Tokyo

April 2009: WordCamp Kansai (Party)

April 2009: WordCamp Tokyo

... and Matt’s Autographing Session

October 2009: WordPress Kyoto

WordBench.org (Local Community)

Barriers and Differences

Language

Local Web Services

Why WordPress?

Freedom & Openness

WordPress in Japanese

Wahdo-Puresuワードプレス

THANKS!ありがとう！

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