Episode 9 - we've moved, css nite, updates, Japan's SNS, eye-fi, wordcamp kyoto

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From a different location (we just moved from one side of the office to the other) we started the show. Hiro shows everyone the new layout but I point out that not many viewers had seen the old layout.Our first topic was CSS Nite, which are presentation events held in different cities in Japan, for web designers and developers. We went to the last one held in Osaka and which was about HTML5. We were quite surprised that so many fellow web folk attended. Over 100 signed up and showed up. There were presentations talking about the new tags in HTML5 and showing the new tags being used for video and player controls.Our next set of news items were all to do with updates, from the Sony PS3 Slim to the ipod nano to snow leopard and WordPress. And of course, Firefox 3.5.3 which Hiro tried again after his bad experiences of 3.5.0 It's funny though, for Hiro it is a lot more stable than 3.0 but for me it is the opposite.We then talked about two of Japan's biggest SNS (Social Networking Service) operators, mixi and DeNA, and their plans at opening up their application platforms. They have really high market capital and are trying their hardest at generating revenue like Facebook. Related to this is the problems Japanese app makers have in providing information to non-Japanese users. Techcrunch's Serkan Toto wrote a piece covering the top 32 Japanese iPhone apps but ended it with a lament on the quality of the English description, details or instructions. We are keen to help, so if you know any Japanese iPhone or Android app developers that would like English assistance, you can put them in touch with us.And it wouldn't be messa.tv if we didn't mention gadgets and I talked about the latest gadget I bought, the eye-fi wireless sd card. I've been wanting to get it for quite some time and now it's available online and in retail shops in Japan. It is a bit more expensive than if you bought it in the States.Finally we heard news of another WordCamp taking place near to us. WordCamp Kyoto is going to take place 16th and 17th October and of course we will attend. Matt however may not attend as it seems there is an time-slot for a video message from Matt. We'll bring you more details on the main blog when we get them.As usual if you enjoyed the show please tell your friends or digg us, delicious us or twitter about us (http://twitter.com/messaliberty) (http://twitter.com/messatv)Plus don't forget you can subscribe to us via iTunes or RSS. See you next episode!