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Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began twitter and quickly getting thousands of followers in hours today.

His first post [J] was “I started twitter. I’m thinking what to eat for lunch”. Later he reported he had eaten squid ink pasta and soup.

After his original popular CEO blog on livedoor was shut down after the incident, he left the livedoor board but still keeps 17.25% stocks. He started another blog [J] in August 2008 on Ameblo [J], which is operated by CyberAgent which CEO is his close ally Susumu Fujita [J].

After 10 tweets and 4,382 followers at this point, he only follows only one, another successful web entrepreneur friend Masatoshi Kumagai [J], CEO of GMO Internet [J].

As Japanese twitter has not growing as fast as English one, and unlike English, celebrities are already active on (regular) blogs and have not come into twitter world much, 4,000 followers in hours is pretty fast. That shows many web users are highly interested in Horie’s words, thoughts and activities.

See Also:

BBC NEWS | Business | Japanese tycoon guilty of fraud

Takafumi Horie | Japan — Business People Technology | www.japaninc.com

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As a part of their blue-ray disc recorder promotion, Sony gives away Windows/Mac screen saver on their site.

After pressing “download” button, you have to scroll down the terms of use to the end to make the second download buttons enabled.

Association with the recorder having an ability to find programmes by user-registered keywords and record them into disc-s (it itself is nothing in Japan as well, just in case), the screensaver accepts a keyword and show the related texts and images in several different ways with music.

After installation, when screen saver is on, you may type a keyword to let it work. I tested it with the recent Japanese tumblr meme “Noma-san Douzo”(Enjoy Mr. Noma).

As it is noted, Yahoo! Japan Search API and YouTube API are used for this. English words may show a little bit different results from what you see on Google and Yahoo.com then.

Tags: Japan by Akky Akimoto
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