Rie Tomimoto(冨本梨恵) is Jibunya 24[J], where she sells her time, does anything her clients ask excluding some exceptions, and blog what she does mostly everyday. She is a 33-year-old ex-web designer, and lives in the west suburban city of Tokyo. Unlike Chen Xiao(陈潇)[C] who does the similar things in Beijing, Rie runs the website not… Continue reading My Time for Sale: Ex-web Designer Girl Exposes Her 24/7 On The Web
Day: April 19, 2009
NHK Broadcasts Lunch Time TV Program For Cellphone
1-seg (one-seg) is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan. Usually it airs the same programs simultaneously with the land-based TV channels do. In March, Japan’s state-run TV/radio broadcaster NHK started broadcasting the 1-seg programs in weekday’s lunch time, specifically designed for office workers having their lunch break. The programming is… Continue reading NHK Broadcasts Lunch Time TV Program For Cellphone
Web-Kare is bought by AQ Interactive
LinkThink, a company known by its blog widgets and niche virtual boys dating social network Web-Kare, is bought by a game company AQ Interactive (Tokyo Stock Exchange 2nd section). AQ Interactive bought 66.8% of LinkThink’s stock from its founder by 51,500,000 yen (510,000 USD). See Also: AQ Interactive’s Release [J, pdf]