July 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Akky Akimoto
First half of July news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Groupon Clone Q:pod Occupies Yamanote-Line Train. Q:pod Is A Joint Venture By Pakureserve And Infinit Ventures
- Rakuten Releases Rakuten-IE8
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Introduces The First Surveillance Camera Car By 160 Million Yen
- Google Japan’s Upper House Election Buzz Analysis
- Japan’s First Banana Vendor Machine [En]: follow-up article article. movie
- Akihabara Evangelion Coin Locker via @nagasawa144
- Japan KFC Opens New Generation Store With LED lights, Digital Signage, Non-Fried-Fried-Chicken
- CyberAgent Builds A Content Winner’s Avatar Room In Real Life via CNET Japan
- Pixiv’s Site Renewal Includes Microblogging Feature
- Sieg Jimin – A Liberal Democratic Party(Jimin-tou) Candidate Agitates Net Users And 2-Channelers In Nazi Style (which is a parody of Gundam character, but who is modeled after Hitler. “Sieg Jimin” starts around 5:33)
- Microsoft K.K. To Rename Itself With Japan Microsoft. Also plans to move to Shinagawa
- Baidu Japan President Chen Haiteng’s Seminer
- LovePlus+ Hijacks Nation-wide TV guide Magazine – LovePlus+ implements geolocation virtual prize system and some eager users are travelling around Japan for that.
- Docomo To Unlock Cellphone SIM Protection Next Spring
- NicoNico Douga Musical To Feature Ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie As A Main Actor
- Shizuoka Gundam Officially Finished Up
- Softbank Group’s Employees Meeting Held At Budokan Stadium for 2 days, Top Idol group SMAP Sang. Their owing pro baseball team Softbank Hawks’ replica uniform shirts are distributed.
- Bing Japanese Version Sheds Beta Label
- Japan’s Digital Book Market Size Was 57.4 Billion Yen In 2009
- Docomo To Get Into eBook Business
- Knowing Crippled Twitter API Performance On Twitter (Unofficial)
- Sexual Harrassing Akihabara Gender Fighting Game
- Nikkei Online Version Paid Subscribers Passed 70,000
- Japan Cabinet Office Announces Estimation Of Making National Dossier System as 610 Billion Yen
- Another Foursquare Clone Tou.ch Teasing
- JRA’s horserace game app gets sensation.
- Yahoo! Japan Updating More Than 10 Of Search Categories
- Even Williams Comes To See Japanese Users Again This Year
- Spending 100 Billion Yen In A Month… In A Cellphone Game
- Mobile Social Game You Can Work Menial Labor
- Japanese Groupon Clone List
- Fujitsu And Microsoft To Ally On Cloud Computing
- Sony ex-CEO Nobuyuki Idei Begins Twitter. Confirmed By Google Japan’s ex-CEO
- A Book To Instruct How To Create Twitter-Bot Published
- Naver Japan Grabs Image Search Provider Position Of NEC’s Biglobe Portal. Biglobe Introduced Naver’s Movie/Audio Search Since 2003
- CyberAgent Ameba(Blog and social services) Gets 10 Million Registered Users. The site for celebration
- Fukuoka-based collaboration drawing web service Cacoo is on NY Times education article [En]
- Microsoft’s Bing Official Launch Promotion Page
- Gree’s Stock Drops Sharply – Mitsubishi-UFJ-Morgan-Stanley Lowered Rating
- Following to massive parcel delivery delay [En], Japan Post Bank ATM Suffers Over 5 Hours Trouble Nationwide
- Livedoor’s Blog Media Blogos Puts Whole-car Ads On Yamate-line. Groupon clone Qpod also did it (I cannot find photos). The cost for that can be at least $100,000. In past, UQ WiMax, Google Japan did in that style for example.
- Softbank Masayoshi Son’s “We’ll do that” Tweets Are Listed And Progress Are Displayed
- This Week’s Weekly Diamond Featured Article Is “Twitter Marketing”
- Government Funding Mitou Youth Project Explained In Manga [pdf]. What is Mitou project? [En]
- Fast Retailing(Uniqlo) And Grameen Bank To Set Up Joint Venture [En]
- Docomo To Start Sp-mode To Cover Up Lack Of Regular Features On Smartphone via Internet Watch
- Asahi Reports Mixi To Begin Free Call Service, Mixi Denies - May 19, 2013
- 22 Million Yahoo! Japan ID Could Be Leaked - May 18, 2013
- Facebook Japan Replaces Its Head Following To Mixi - May 17, 2013
- Japan’s Most Annoying Website To Be Shut Down Soon - May 16, 2013
- Mixi Appoints A New President. CEO Kasahara To Be A Chairman - May 15, 2013
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
Akky Akimoto
Leader at Asiajin
@akky is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for The Japan Times, consults for some foreign companies interested in Japanese web market. (please inquire to akimoto on gmail.com).
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