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Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks

Jsdo.it is a new web developers' community on which HTML5/JavaScript/CSS programmers can play, share and collaborate with others.

On the site, user can edit HTML/JavaScript/CSS on the left pane, and run them on the right pane.

Your code are publicized with your designating license, and others can "fork" it and make his/her branched version.

Popular JavaScript libraries are callable. Others making code are also possible to include.

Here is one Jsdo.it project sample I randomly took. On this blog widget, all source code can be seen on viewer, and you can play it here.

forked from: Trail Fader - jsdo.it - share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS

As licenses are attached to each source code by posters, you can take all needed code to your server outside if it permits.

All time favored ranking may be good place to check what cool designs and effects are made by Japanese web programmers.

Kayac, the company behind Jsdo.it, has already succeeded with the similar type of "code and share" community on Adobe Flash, Wonderfl. Some popular Flash applications made on Wonderfl seem to be transplanted to Jsdo.it already.

Particle 3000 - jsdo.it - share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS

JSパーティクル崩し - jsdo.it - share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS

Tree in the breeze - jsdo.it - share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS

Real Time Ray Tracing - jsdo.it - share JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS

Tags: Community, Japan, Technology by Akky Akimoto
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Japan Sec Dealers’ Assc Postpones Banning Individual Investments On Pre-IPO Start-ups

Japan Security Dealers Association proposed banning IPO of companies who have been fundraised by individual investors except the companies' employees and founder's family, and that news caused a sensation in this country's tech start-up community.   The association aimed at preventing fraud over unlisted shares, but the banning would make start-ups harder to go IPO if they've been fundraised by individuals in the seed stage financing.

Company founders who had been financially assisted by their friends and colleagues were asking people for expressing their objections against the proposal on Twitter, as a result, the association was forced to postpone the banning.

Public comments, a system giving citizens opportunities to express approvals for or objections against a proposal before deciding it, have been used as a good excuse by conservative bureaucratic organizations and the old-economy.   But Twitter leveraged its social media power in this case.

"Can a start-up own a capital enough to devote themselves to their business or not?  That decides if they can survive.   Usually that kind of money comes from individual "angel" investors", a CFO of a start-up says.

"We were not intended to ban angel investments, but probably the expression of the proposal might be insufficient to make people understand correctly because we've been criticized.  we may have to yield a countermeasure to this.", Hirofumi Uchio, the association's general manager of self-restraint dept. says.

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Tags: Community, Japan, News by Masaru IKEDA
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Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan

Softbank Group's Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (means "Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery"), which we reported last December, lets people send parcels only by e-mail address, i.e. without knowing the recipients' real address, now start supporting emerging messaging endpoint, Twitter.

When a sender shows their intention to send a package to another Twitter user, this service asks to the recipient if s/he would receive it. Then, when the package is really sent to the agent, they will ask the recipient's address and the address will not be informed to the sender.

Their website shows three major use cases of the service;

  • to send a birthday present to your online friend
  • to receive an item you bid on auction sites without giving your privacy information
  • to send usable child cloths to a friend who moved far but only know her twitter/e-mail

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E-mail-only friend delivery springs up in Japan - many Japanese seem to care their privacy to not-so-close friends

Tags: Japan, New Service by Akky Akimoto
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June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)

Continued from (Part 1)

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

Japan’s First Banana Vending Machine Debuts In Shibuya

The Japanese local subsidiary of international leading banana distributor Dole put the country's first banana vending machine at an underground shopping mall in Shibuya last week, which draws people's attention.

The vending machine has a fridge and maintains stored bananas at 13 degrees Celsius (=55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) which is the best temperature to keep them in good condition.

Bobby banana being sold by this vending machine is available at 130 yen (USD1.5 approx.) per piece or 390 yen (USD4.5 approx.) per bunch, which is a little bit more expensive than its supermarket price. But more than 1,000 pieces have been sold since the machine was set up a week ago. The machine is capable of having 100 packages (some are pieces, others are bunches), and a machine maintainer carries and sets new bananas every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Tags: Community, Company, Japan, News by Masaru IKEDA
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