Somehow Twitter catches on so much in Japan. Like Japanese tweets recorded on national team soccer game on the World Cup 2010 4 days ago. Following the majority is one of the national character where social accordance is valued. Then, weird things are happening by people who are not necessary to get on the bandwagon.… Continue reading Mobile Tweeting Yoga On Japanese Magazine
Day: June 29, 2010
Mixi Introduces New Function To Find And Connect With Colleagues
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi (which crossed the 20 million member mark in April) may have just found yet another way to expand its user base and boost engagement. Mixi yesterday introduced a new function that makes it possible to find colleagues from your company on the site and befriend them. Background: Unlike Facebook and… Continue reading Mixi Introduces New Function To Find And Connect With Colleagues
Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter
Japan’s upper house election campaign period began on 24th June. Internet updates during election has been banned in Japan. It was a discussion to legalize blog updates (but not Twitter, funny how they tried to draw line between them) recently, but it could not make this time in time. According to J-Cast [J], incumbent upper… Continue reading Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter