I will give a quick presentation on mobile video in Japan at the next Tokyo 2.0 (March 9).  The presentation will highlight some of the issues faced with mobile video on Japanese handsets, describe some existing mobile video services, and introduce a mobile video service created by mobalean.  I hope to see you there.

Last Thursday, I gave a presentation at Ninjava on mobile web development in Japan. Although Ninjava usually has about 20 attendees, this time it had over forty. As this was my first presentation since university, the large crowd was a little intimidating.

However, I think it served as a good opportunity to get the word out about mobalean, and particularly about our wiki for Japanese mobile development. As I mentioned during the presentation, there are not so many resources for mobile development in Japan, especially in English. Though our wiki is still in its infancy, I believe it will grow into a valuable resource over the coming months.

In addition, it was a chance to meet other mobile developers. In response to a question, we generated a simple page that allows you to see the headers for a request. This can be useful for debugging as the carriers often set special headers for mobile requests. To try it out, go to http://www.mobalean.com/tools/headers or use the following QR Code:

By the way, this QR Code was generated by the Google Chart API.

Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation, I hope you enjoyed it.  Our slides are available for download here.