Japan No.1 social networking service Mixi, which recently passed 20 million users, announced that their friends invitation page now has “search friends from your gmail” function, in cooperating with Google Gmail with OAuth. See Also: Mixi’s press release [J]
Day: April 15, 2010
2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds… Japanese Pop
Some Japanese online media on China news reported that the opening theme of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, which is coming next month, is very similar with a Japanese pop song released last century. A Japanese singer/songwriter Maya Okamoto’s “Sonomama no Kimi de ite”(そのままの君でいて) in 1997. Shanghai Expo Theme Song “Waiting you in 2010″(2010等你来) sung by… Continue reading 2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds… Japanese Pop
Hewlett-Packard Japan’s “Maid in Tokyo” Campaign
The world’s No.1 PC vendor Hewlett-Packard(HP)’s Japan branch is running a new campaign “Maid in Tokyo” [J], featuring two girls from Japanese idol unit Aidoringu(made up from “Idle”+”-ing”) in maid costume, to appeal that the HP’s PC are “made in Tokyo”. According to the HP site [J], since 1999 they have been producing PC in… Continue reading Hewlett-Packard Japan’s “Maid in Tokyo” Campaign