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Mixi holds “mixi Appli Conference 2009” [JP] to promote their new app service on April 23rd in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

Speakers are:

• Kenji Kasahara, CEO of Mixi Inc.
• Akinori Harada, VP, Mixi Division, of Mixi Inc.
• Koichiro Tsujino, President of Google Japan.
• Makoto Asanuma, VP of Namco Bandai Games Inc.
• Minoru Kimura, Head of Media Technology Labs at Recruit Co., Ltd.
• Jia Shen, CTO and Founder of RockYou, Inc.

Mixi has already disclosed their app service API for companies under the NDA from November 2008.

In early April, they will launch a beta version of Mixi Appli. Also they will release the API for personal developers too.

Tags: Company, Japan, News, Service by Shunichi Arai
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Social network service Mixi banned users from dating.

Mixi changed their terms of policy on December 1st, in accordance with the “Dating site regulation act”. They are now prohibiting users from “using Mixi mainly to meet with strangers of the other sex”.

Recently, Mixi has deleted many groups which hold group dating or offline meetings.

The decision might also have been influenced by the recent lowering of the minimum age limit for users from 18 to 15.  To be certified as a  “safe site” which can be used by minors from a cellphone without filtering, they had to delete all dating groups from the site.

Japan has already been suffering from very low birth rate, but the National Police Agency wants Japanese to refrain from dating. Very very silly. Is it constitutional to restrict people from dating online?

via J-CAST [JP]

Tags: Japan, Society by Shunichi Arai
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