It’s been over three months since I wrote anything here on TechCrunch, but over the next 10 days or so you’ll be hearing more from me as I travel with a group of 32 techies through East Asia as part of GeeksOnAPlane, a field trip of sorts organized by Dave McClure intended to open our Western eyes to how the technology industry works in Japan and China.
The web as experienced by the biggest continent on the planet unfortunately gets short shrift on the blogs that regularly hit Techmeme. I personally can profess to have only cursory knowledge of the trends and companies that come out of Asia, and that knowledge consists mainly of echoes that get passed along by word of mouth. Sarah Lacy has done all of us a favor by recently reporting from China, but we can always use more to enlighten us about what’s going on across the Pacific.
In a couple of minutes, I’ll be boarding a plane bound for Tokyo with the group you see above. And over the next few days we’ll be attending conference-type events, such as Startonomics Tokyo, where we’ll hear about a variety of topics such as the Japanese investment climate and startup success stories. My main goal is to share with you all what this all looks like to someone who’s familiar with the web but from an almost purely American point of view.
If you find these insights interesting, I encourage you to follow GeeksOnAPlane on Twitter. I’ll also be posting snippets of my experience to my own account. If you want to comment on any of our travels, use the hashtag #goap on Twitter.
I have had it with these motherf*@$ing geeks on this motherf*@$ing plane!
Time to open some motherfucking windows!
Geeks trying to look cool..haha
It’s been over three months since I wrote anything here on TechCrunch, but over the next 10 days or so you’ll be hearing more from me as I travel with a group of 32 techies through East Asia as part of GeeksOnAPlane
WOOHOO! commenting from ANA #007 just about o depart for Narita, Japan
Tokyo here we come!
Once you get to the Narita Airport, go into the bathroom. They have toilets in there that spray water up your ass.
The toilets also spray out deodorant.
You will have a complete arm chair command center if you need to take a dump.
Oh, and if you go to mainland China, get ready to squat if you need to take a dump in a public rest room. They have that in Japan too, but to a lesser extent, because Japan is more westernized.
I hope you like TCL brand products.
No small sized t shirts?
If you have not been to Japan before, you will be dazzled. They are a world away!! Have fun! I’ll be following..
Welcome Mark!!
No small sized t shirts?
If you have not been to Japan before, you will be dazzled. They are a world away!! Have fun! I’ll be following..
Yo OO, how is your best friend Anjelah? We have not seen her in a while.
Fun! I can recognize a few familiar faces there
Have a great time! I look forward to reading what you find out. It should be interesting to see what the startup realm is like over there.
Perhaps TC Japan will expand to cover some of the stuff over there as well because right now it just seems its TC stories in Japanese.
takeoff in 3… 2… 1…. And away we GO!
It get’s super cold in Asia. They need all the clothing they can get when they’re over there!
I’m eager to hear how the trip goes. Dug told me a little about this. Please keep us updated!!
see you soon, guys – ill have a big goap banner with me waiting at narita
Hope you find a good Great Firewall of China workaround to use Twitter. Proxies haven’t worked for me and I am hesitant to install some programs a friend gave me.
Hope you guys find a workaround to use Twitter! Still blocked even though the Chinese knockoff, Fanfou.com, is back up.
thats awesome that they got the fobby hand signs down for the picture.