One Billion Users: Emerging Trends in Emerging Markets

MSR TechFest is next week in Redmond. ACID is working on a few demos that we can't really discuss on a public website, but it's great doing a combination of pure design research as well as working with other groups (e.g. Speech, Computer Vision, Multi...

I have a softspot for any research on social networking software. This paper examines whats so "cool" about MySpace that gets teens to stick around. The dynamics of a country full of one child policy tech savvy Chinese teens has made MSN Spaces in...

This article from a year ago describes how the Otaku nerd culture is creeping into mainstream Japanese culture. Japan seems to have an abundance of subcultures from the playful to the downright disturbing . Like much of Japanese youth culture, some of...

This conference seems more oriented towards corporate design but some pretty good summaries of the talks online. Much of the materials also seem to discuss India more than any other country.