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Our First Storybook Helps Kids with Cancer

Long Weekend  and the Tyler Foundation recently announced the release of Juliette and the Shiny Red Balloon, a bedtime storybook for iPad presented in English [...]

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February 2nd, 2012

Presentation Video: From Idea to App Store

This video was taken during our inaugural lecture series at Swinburne University in 2010. Long Weekender Mark Makdad talks about [...]

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October 14th, 2011

Cleaning up Tohoku: Mark’s experience as a volunteer

Long Weekend is donating 50% of the proceeds of Japanese Flash to Foreign Volunteers Japan during September. And we’re also [...]

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September 27th, 2011

Long Weekend to demo “Hirameki” at Mobile Monday Tokyo

We’ve been pretty active attendees of Mobile Monday events in Melbourne and Tokyo; now, for MoMo Tokyo’s Sep 12 event, we take the stage!

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August 22nd, 2011

Long Weekend targets Japanese market, opens subsidiary

Long Weekend LLC registered subsidiary Long Weekend K.K. (K.K. is “Co., Inc.” in Japanese) on July 12th, 2011.

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August 3rd, 2011

Traveling Programmer: Tools of the Trade

As a long-term, frequent traveler, I have whittled down to the most essential tools to be able to work anywhere.

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June 3rd, 2011

Tokyo, New York, Costa Rica

A few less than last year. This year is all about building business in New York and Tokyo.

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April 22nd, 2011

Making Jargon: Here Comes the Bit Schlepper

It’s official, a new word will soon be born to adequately and deservingly describe the ineptitude of Mobile Telcos the [...]

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April 8th, 2011

Keeping in Touch With Skype & Facebook During The Earthquake

During the recent Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, famously measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale, two Long Weekenders were in [...]

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March 23rd, 2011

Study Tango in Buenos Aires for a Month

“Location Free” means the ability to live and work from anywhere with a roof and a net connection. I would [...]

Posted In Weekendology
March 23rd, 2011

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