CGM night has come again [official site]. This time around, Danny Choo (The Dancing Stormtrooper) and Andrew Shuttleworth managed to get about 200 of the movers and shakers of the Japanese internet and IT world together. Yes, as before, there was Janken. But there was also arm wrestling. Try to not get too close to the screen, our giant muscles may leap out and poke you in the eye.

Here’s my humble vid recap [insert standard disclaimer about how my face scares small children and my video editing is worse than public access cable]:

On Poken: It is a pretty good idea. I think it needs to integrate a few more social networks, but they are probably working on that. Something that annoys me is that the unit seems to be a 1 gig USB (the program takes up little space), which would be useful, but it is locked down, so you can’t transfer files onto it! Major oversight IMHO.

Smartfm really is one of the best tools for studying Japanese, or anything else you want to study. Here is that Poken study list featured in the video; you can just sign in with your google account or what have you to play.

Business Cards I received:

• Storwize. An internet storage company.
• Applemilk1988’s site. A youtuber/gravure model/idol. I liked her hand-drawn cards at the last gathering more though.
• J’s Avenue. A Developing/consulting firm.
• 1Rick.com. Rick is the dude I totally destroyed in arm wresting. Oh yeah, and he does all kinds of things around the web, like writing for Cnet Asia. And he’s a pretty nice guy.
• Meltingdots. These guys seem to be doing all kinds of things with little pixel art avatars and cell phones, and they have some cool business cards. Too bad they don’t seem to be doing stuff in English yet.

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