May 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- ClapClap Clock – Handclap Triggered Sound Clock iPhone App
- A Blogger Accuses The Ruling Party DPJ To Censor Twitter, Without Knowing Twitter Search In Japanese Is Kind Of Broken
- Domino Pizza Campaign In Japan, Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Singapore
- Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur Visits Tokyo To Meet Softbank, Mixi, DeNA and Japanese Users
- A Magazine WebSite Experts Picked Up Asiajin As A WordPress-based Blog
- Big Publisher Kodansha To Release First Digital Novel Set On iPad Launch
- Gree CTO Shows Tantative PHP modification Possibly Couple-of-times Faster
- Two Magazine Covers Have AR Gimics -
Web Desining 2010/06 and GQ 2010/07 - 30 Years Anniversary Of Pacman Twitter App For iPhone
- Non-Digital Picturebook For iPhone
- Microsoft Said No To Join Docomo i-mode in (maybe around) 2001
- Synthetic Singer Tops Japan’s Music Album Ranking Oricon Ranking
- Increment introduces face recognition API for free
- 2 Channel And Niconico Douga Founder Hiroyuki To Trip And Livestream From Zimbabwe And South Africa
- Reopened Akihabara Hotel Offers Wake-up Call By Anime Voice Actoress Students
- Japan Racing Association Provides Free Virtual Dating Game On Website
- Bandai Namco Games Produces Elementary School Textbook With Roleplaying Flavour
- Twitter Drama Mislead A Husband To Ban His Wife’s Account – Is Twitter A Random Dating Service?
- Pixiv Passed Over 2 Million Registered Users On Weekend, A Vice President Tweets
- HootSuite CEO Visits Japan, Opens Japanese Site And Twitter @hootsuite_Japan. HotSuite tells 30% of their users are from Japan via @kogure
- Mobile Based Navigation Company Navitime Japan Enters Into Car Navigation Hardware
- Mixi Releases “mixi for BlackBerry smartphones”
- 100,000 Cellphone Unreachable Japanese Grumbles Grand-Children Do Not Visit Them Because Of That
- Digital Garage Begins Affiliate Tweet Service Tsubureko
- User-Generated Manga Ads Banner Service MangaAd Gets 1,000 Posts In First Month
- Government Pushes To Reduce Cellphone Unreachable Users From 102,000 to 5-70,000
- Draw Triangles On Earth – Geolocation Game “Geotrion” Launches For iPhone
- CyberAgent Ameblo Now Supports Google Chrome!!
- Tokyo Electric Power To Begin Public Power Socket Service
- Twitter Uniqlo Lucky Line Hype Caused False Alarm Of Password Leak URL of the text file, which caching users name and public profile, read from Uniqlo’s Flash, was found by users and some misunderstood their passwords leaked, too.
- Livedoor Sets Up Maximum 3 Million Yen Blogger Scholarship
- Sony Vaio P’s My Video Clip Generator For Twitter Users
- Mobile Gelocation Game Ketai Kunitori Gassen Passed Over A Half Million Users
- World Cup 2022 Japan’s High Tech Plan Movie
- Joi Ito’s response on Twitter’s banning paid tweet and Digital Garage business [En]
- CyberAgent’s AmebaPico Gets A Million Users In 2.5 Months
- Opt Announces Social App Contest
- P2P Leaked Data Exposing Blackmailers Arrested
- More Chinese and Japanese consumer buys food online than American [En]
- Hikari Tsuushin And Others Runs Smartphone Application Contest With Total 1 Billion Yen Prize
- Multilingual Social Manga Drawing Community Magajin
- Sony Vaio P’s Software Update Makes It Be An iPad Bluetooth Keyboard And Stand
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Joins To Manage Australian Water Company, Exports Japan’s Super-low Leakage Rate
- Softbank Creative Gets Exclusive Rights To Broadcast Soccer World Cup 64 Games For Cellphone In Japan – though most Japanese cellphone have one-seg TV
- Softbank Group Viewn Launches E-magazine Subscription Service For iPad And Other Softbank Phones
- Weekly Post Has A Long Interview For ex-Google Japan President Kouichiro Tsujino
- Mixi Launches Smartphone Page Mixi Touch
- Docomo-DeNA’s UGC Service “Everystar” Announced For Next Week Launch
- KDDI Au Expands Cellphone Contents Payment System To PC/Smartphone, Following to NTT Docomo
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