After lifehack.org received some referred visitors from Japanese blogs and sites, I started to look into some Japanese blogs and sites (not that I understand Japanese, but I can guess some of the contents and links). Surprisingly, they actually have a great community on life hacks.
Last month they had their fifth conference on lifehacks. It is all about productivity and tips on speeding up life.
I am quite exciting to see their organization on such conference on lifehacks and it will be definitely interesting to see if any other countries have any similar meetings.
Thanks to the fellow Japanese bloggers who link to lifehack.org so that I can able to touch base with lifehackers around the world on this news.
UPDATE: I have included a link to Google’s machine translations. It is a bit funny but you will get a idea on the content. :)
Agenda and minutes on the conference (Japanese) – (Google machine translated page)
Life Hackers Conference 2005 (Japanese) – (Google machine translated page)
Hello, my name is Gen Taguchi, i was the host at the conference. The term, “life hacks” is not very popular here in japan yet (even GTD is not that poplular, weird…), but since life is getting more complicated than ever, the concept was well received and got attention. it took only one day to fill the 100+ seats. it’s still new here, but “Life Hacks” is gradually invented by more people. your site is definitely one of the best resources, thanks for your insightful posts.
Thanks for visiting and leaving us a feedback, Taguchi-san.
In my opinion it is a pretty big conference to have 100+ seats. I am really interested on hearing more on life hacks sites and activities in Japan.
And thanks for your postive feedback.