Karpeles moves to Japan
Karpeles arrives in his Japan with his cat Tiban and some hard drives. Karpeles first visited Japan for a month in 2007, and posted a blog entry in Japanese saying he was a ‘geek’.
Karpeles Blog: I do computer-related work (a programmer); my goal is world domination.
Moves to Israel
Karlpeles moves to Israel, hoping to get closer to his Catholic faith while working for internet company Fotovista. In a blog post he argues that Hebrew is as important to Christians as it is to religious Jews. He only worked at this job for a few months before he once again began to feel depressed and “empty” according to one blog. In addition to his work at Fotovista he works on his own site, Ookoo.org. However, due to power outages and service disruptions he loses most of his customers and returns to France.