Today I was followed by Alex Onsager on Twitter and he asked me to let him know some Japanese geeky and techie guys. So, I'd pick up some persons who meet Alex's demand, tweets often and not protected from my following list. And the result is the list below, in no particular order.
Note that this list is based on my followings and completely personal point of view. Please don't claim ;-)
- nipotan
- Perl hacker. Sr. manager at 'livedoor Co.,Ltd.' which runs portal site and various geeky services.
- miyagawa
- Kind of a symbol of Japanese hacker. CTO of Six Apart. Developer of 'Plagger'. One of top CPAN auther. Former leader of Shibuya Perl Mongers. ex CTO of livedoor Co.,Ltd.
- dankogai
- One of Perl guru in Japan. He developed encode.pm module. And also he is very famous as a blogger. Sometime he appeared in TV debate show. ex CTO of livedoor Co.,Ltd.
- otsune
- Internet watcher.
- nishio
- Computer Scientist, Python guy.
- Hamachiya2
- Security hacker.
- monjudoh
- JavaScript guy.
- yoshiori
- Java guy.
- koizuka
- Developer of big movie delivering service 'Nico Nico Douga' is as popular as YouTube in Japan.
- gyuque
- JavaScript, Computer scientist, Ph.D student in Univ of Tokyo.
- takesako
- Current leader of Shibuya Perl Mongers.
- shi3z
- Runs a company which develops iPhone Apps.
- hyuki
- Perl hacker, wrote many books.
- kawa0117
- Web developer(back-end and front-end) in Recruit Media Technology Lab. He works on Open Social.
- HolyGrail
- Front-end Engineer of Yahoo! Japan.
- rkmt
- Researcher of Sony Computer Science Laboratory(Sony CSL).
- masuidrive
- Ruby developer, currently based on Seattle. He is famous for writing code in a bath. This is what I mean.
- fshin2000
- Developer of famous Japanese mobile interface service of Twitter called 'Movatwitter'.
- Kuruma
- ex Opera, Web Standards guy.
- vant
- One of most valuable Web Standards guy in Japan.
- masui
- Interface guru. ex Sony CSL, Apple. In Apple, he developed Japanese input interface on iPhone. Currently in SFC as researcher.
- noriyo
- Information Architect. Translate some O'Riely books. She has bririant point of veiw.
- keita
- Back-end engineer in tha ltd which is held by Yugo Nakamura worldwide-known web designer.
- fladdict
- Web Designer, iPhone app developer, Flash addict guy. also in tha ltd.
- mayuki
- Windows app and web service engineer. Developed TwitterIrcGateway.
- yhassy
- Web designer. wrote some books about CSS.
- kazuhito
- Web standards guy. He leads Web Standards community in Japan as a WaSP member.
- orange_juno
- An editor of webzine called 'With D' treats web design, online activity, and design things.
- _masaka
- Japanese Semantic web guru. Totally smart!
- yanbe
- "Ph.d student who is interested in web mining, especially social bookmarking services / Software developer." quoted from his twitter page :-P
And of course, feel free to follow me ;-)
dankogai is not active in twitter, hamachya2 is a cracker, not a hacker and otusne is a web watcher, not an internet watcher (he is watching packets?).
And add kazuhooku, joi, tsuda, nobi, raurublock, lalha to this list instead of below accounts.
Of course I know it's not perfect. And I've never think or say it's perfect. Why don't you try make your own perfect list? Please tell me when you'll finish it!
Is miyagawa CTO of Six Apart?
Following 11 new people. Great post!!