KazuyaYokoyama.com

I’ve never written my blog for 3 months. What did I do? I was thinking about lots of things; iPhone apps, Android apps and web-based apps. I understand that it’s very important for me to develop web-based apps that are open open sources. Of course developing iPhone apps such as SpeedMemo and Translator is also important in aspects of studying the architecture and making money.
Developing web-based apps is challenging and exciting. I’m going to write my blog, that is “lab.kazuyayokoyama.com” in Japanese only, about what I’m doing and how I’m developing it. I’ll show it to you soon. By the way my iPhone apps, SpeedMemo and Translator, will be updated for iOS 4 soon.

My second iPhone App “SpeedMemo” has been released on App Store. You’re able to download this app here.

Have you ever forgotten important ideas or to-do list? “SpeedMemo” is application specialized in taking the memo fast. You can take memo as soon as it starts up. After you save memo, you can e-mail memo, tweet it to Twitter and save it on Evernote.

It supports the latest technology of Evernote. You know, Evernote launched “Emailing Into Evernote Just Got Better « Evernote Blogcast“. It’ very easy to save everything on Evernote.

Please try this new app and review it if you like.

A happy new year 2010!!!
This blog began last year and I’ve posted some entries into it. It’s not tough for me to write blog in English but it’s really tough to think my opinion in English. When I write blog, I think what to write in Japanese at first and then write it in English with translating from Japanese to English in my brain so far. It takes longer time than blogging in Japanese.
I’m going to change this situation. I’ll complete ‘just thinking in English and writing in English’. I’ll write my blog a few entries a month this year. More entries I write in my blog, more experience I have.
And I got a new communication tool, Twitter last year. I’ve tweeted over 2,500 tweets and gotton over 300 followers for a year. Thanks to my followers for supporting me. So my output tool in English is both Twitter and blog.
I won’t be afraid my mistakes and will publish my opinion aggressively this year.

I’ve got Moleskine that is one of the most famous memo pads. It has squared grid and is small size. Frankly speaking, I didn’t like a memo pad and a schedule book because I used them for just a few months from new year day. Especially, I’ve never paid attention to them at all since I bought iPhone.

However, I’ve noticed that all my ideas are based on only texts or photos because of using iPhone and Evernote. At least my ideas exist in my brain with having form, figure and graphic; so I needed to transform from figure into text purposely. I may waste my limited time.
For those reason, I think I have to output my ideas as naked as nature intended. Having a pen and writing with my hand is the best way to provide ideas in my opinion. Let’s get started with Moleskine.

I’m not really interested in politics but talk about it.
This general election in Japan shows lots of experienced old councilors lose their chairs. This is not only because of distrusts for Liberal Democratic Party but also because of expectations for young councilors of Democrat Party.
I think that change of generation in Japanese politics is more important than change of government. The elected people should overcome challenging problems and achieve a certain result. That must be the base of the future for Japan.

I started my Japanse blog(bluetune) in 2003 when I was a collage student. I’ve been blogging but recently it’s likely to be stopped and restarted. There is a vicious circle that something new like Twitter occurs to me and my blog update is stopped.

I ‘live in’ Twitter the past year and the pace of blogging is getting down. I’ve never felt like updating my blog because I’ve done everything on Twitter instead.
If you’re interested in me, you can follow on Twitter :
Kazuya Yokoyama (kazz_yokoyama) on Twitter

Twitter is usually expressed as “Micro Blogging” and it’s easy to say. I think Twitter is a real-time tool not micro blog of character limits. Tweets on Twitter get feedback on blogs and blogs as well. The circulation that Twiter and Blogs are connected with each other will make many people happy.
I’m thinking about how to use Twitter and blogs after this.

We made a reservation of new iPhone 3GSs last week, and then we got them. The black one is mine and the white one is my wife’s. I’m deeply concerned with DoCoMo that is a carrier we’ve had connection for over 9 years. Mobile Number Potability in Japan is very easy to use for us. We needed just 1 hour for the processing of getting iPhones.
If you want to know the goodness of iPhone, you may visit the other blogs. I write the bad points of it for ordinary people like my wife below.

• When we reply with IMAP mail, we have no choice except the quotation.
• We can’t configure the e-mail sounds in detail.
• It’s hard to understand whether i.softbank or SMS/MMS we have to use.
• We can’t check received e-mail writing new e-mail.

In my opinion, they are not really matter without using it everyday. I’m looking forward to how my life will be changed with iPhone 3GS.

This season is coming finally this year — I hate it.
In every February and March, I feel so depressed that I do not go outside at all. It’s because of hay fever!!!
I can manage my nose problem. But my eyes is super dry eyes, so I can not stand their itch. I feel like washing my eyes after taking out them from my face… Oh, god.
However, I want to play tennis outside for a few hours — it is very reckless, isn’t it !?
My nose and eyes are disgusting right now.