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Fukuoka Geeks Meet Up
Feb 1st
Fukuoka Geeks
We are starting a meet up group called “Fukuoka Geeks”. It will be held at least once a month and all are invited to attend. The first meeting will be held Friday February 19th. The location is to be decided (TBD) but should be somewhere in Tenjin. It all depends on the number of people interested.
We want to get the Fukuoka Geek Community together to talk technology. Doesn’t matter if you are a big geek or just a little geeky, come down and meet. We hope both Japanese and Gaijin will come so get ready to speak a little Japanese (or English).
When: February 19th, 2010 (Friday)
Where: Tenjin (TBD)
Who: Anyone that is interested in technology.
More details will follow.
RSVP: http://groups.google.com/group/fukuoka-geeks
Zooomed in on Fukuoka
Dec 13th
A good friends of mine over at 808Talk the site that inspired this one made a little Flickr mashup. The idea of this mashup (a program or site using programming API’s to create something new. Like Google maps and Flickr combined to form a unique site) was to give a zooomed in view of a place at any given time. The site features 24 pictures from Flickr that were tagged with the subject matter of choice. What the site does is grabs the images from Flickr and posts them to a site, using the Flickr API and some creative coding by VBrown. Once the data is loaded you can either click on the picture or roll over it with your mouse and it will display. Pretty cool little project if you ask me. Once he showed me the site I told him you know you have to create a Fukuoka Page!! He was like….”Already done my friend” and sent me the link.
If you have a Flickr account and have pictures of Fukuoka, add the word Fukuoka as a tag and they will appear in on the site.
Join Fukuoka Talk!!
Nov 25th
If you haven’t joined Fukuoka Talk already, then we suggest that you register for the site. Some of the Reasons that you want to join the site are that we offer members only content, prize giveaways, and special deals.
Fukuoka Talk will also be adding a classified section to the site. This classified section will be viewable to both members and non-members, but in order to post you will have to be a member of the site. The initial categories will probably be something like the following:
- Announcements & Information
- For Sale
- For Trade
- Give Away
- Jobs
- Looking for Work
- Language Lessons
- Language Exchange
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Thanks,
Fukuoka Talk Staff