As implied by teaser page, Twitter Japan has launched an official Japanese cellphone site http://twtr.jp.

Here is the teaser page changed to a guide page which has both cellphone site URL and QR Code.

The current mobile site http://m.twitter.com/, which is not really usable (it did not work with many of Japanese phone browsers) for Japanese cellphone users, now transferred to this http://twtr.jp, maybe for Japanese users by seeing locale, user agents or IP address (will be cleared soon).

Here is the login page.

And seeing someone’s page.

It was not stable when I saw first time an hour before the Tweetup event, but later, I could play around and felt it is well considered against tricky Japanese cellphone specifications and styles. They are things like proper XML/HTML declaration for different carriers, using embedded style for phones which cannot handle external CSS, short cut digit keys assignment in the same manner as Japanese major cellphone sites, effective emoji usage for better recognition, etc.

The official cellphone site has a great advantage against preceding successful mobile twitter Japanese services such like Movatwitter and Movatter, i.e. no API limitation and direct access to the backend database. I did not expect that Digital Garage did this slick UI from the beginning, but this will surely encourage regular cellphone users to join Twitter.

Tags: Cellular Phone, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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China’s national copyright administration[C] announced the government would ban the market entry of online game services which are operated by non-Chinese service providers.

According to the country’s state-run news website Xinhua-Net, the deputy commissioner for the sci-tech department of the administration says, regardless of whether it’s an independent entity or a joint venture with a Chinese company, foreign-owned companies will not be allowed to run online game services by themselves, to invest game service providers, and to touch anything surrounding the business including technical support.

They say, the emerging growth of foreign game providers entering the country causes disturbing the social order and scattering unwholesome software titles including violent scenes and indecency.   The administration announced the notice to enforce the stronger inspection of imported online game titles, and it will strengthen censoring game titles made in China as well.

Some Japanese social network services already started their local business in Mainland China (refer to these Asiajin articles [1] [2]), of course they’re not game services, but the administration’s announcement must influence their future business prospects.   No public announcement from any of them was confirmed so far.

via The Second Times[J]

See Also:

• Xinhua-Net: China’s copyright administration bans any form of foreign investment to online games[C]

Tags: China, Company, News by Masaru IKEDA
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