August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Akky Akimoto
First of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Solve the encryption hidden in floor plan drawings and win a free rent of the luxury condos for a year
- Hakusuisha collects good recipes of soda cocktails using the company's mixture via Ustream and Twitter.
- China-based Social Translation Service Yeeyan Coming To Japan
- Yahoo! Japan CEO Explains About This Time's Search Backend Switch To Google's one. Also on ITMedia
- Local Community Site Pado Starts Groupon Clone Coopa
- Docomo To Provide Oversea Fixed-Rate Data Program
- Ideacross' NEXTTOUCH Felica-IC-card-supported Android Lets Customers Communicate At Store via Nikkei BP
- Following to METI, Consumer Agency Requests Apple Japan To File iPod Nano Overheat Issue
- Japanese Groupon-like Service Aggregator Groupon-Now Launches via Markezine
- Docomo Opens Smartphone Lounge At Marunouchi Business District
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Visualized On Google Earth. release
- iPhone Music Composer App LOOPMATIX Lite
- Music artists are complaining about a two-week system outage of a social network website being operated by a music major label. They're moving their home blogs to other blog platforms.
- Japanese Sushi Shop In Estonia - very... Japanese-ish
- NTT DoCoMo takes over PacketVideo.
- Zynga Buys Tokyo-based Startup Unoh - TechCrunch [En]
- New Daily Deal Service Verci To Launch via MyCom
- Japanese Groupon Clone Increase In Graph
- CCC(Tsutaya - Japanese Blockbuster) Invests Online Magazine Company Fujisan
- Japan's First Google Wave Book Coming Just In 2 Weeks. Author Shocked By Google's Announce To Suspend It
- Daily Deal Service Piku Shakes Hands With Big Restaurant Review Service Groumet Navigator
- JapaneseStreets - Japanese Street Fashion Photoblog in English [En]
- Mixi Vice President Makes Interesting Quotes On Facebook-Study Meetup
- Apple Japan fails to report 34 minor iPod nano accidents [En]
- AR Majinger Z To Appear In Akihabara On The Weekend
- Dentsu And Preferred Infrastructure Opens Websites Auto Viewer Service Xappy
- Funny Sapporo Beer Commercial in Canada [En]
- Tokyo Historic Layered Maps iPhone App
- Wierd Feature Implemented To Share Experiences On Anime Porn Game Over Tweets. via Akiba Blog
- First Regular TV Broadcasting "Summer Wars" [imdb] Anime Involved A Lots Of Watchers' Tweets(#summerwars). world trending #2 at peak. Fan's virtual backup call for the battle inside the movie
- Justice Ministry Considering To Enact "Criminal Of Virus Programming"
- Awatwee - Bandai-Namco's iPhone Twitter Client With Avatar
- Korean Pizza Hut Dance Girls Movie [Kr]
- Kanon Rock Played By Ruler From NicoNico Douga Monosashisuto(ruler-lovers) Community
- Favstar Asks Japanese Twitter Users Why One Japanese Tweet got thousands of favorite - answer [En] - background how third party joke service caused it with OAuth
- Fan-Made Twitter Fail Whale Appears On Asagaya Shopping Street in Tokyo
- Mixi Meetup 2010 - Partners Conference - Planned On Sep. 10th
- Oceanize Expanding Free Copy Service in China, adds 16 University in Shanghai
- Takeo City Mayor To Call For Japan Society Of Twitter Study
- (log out bit.ly first if you try) Security Joker Hamachiya runs a demo site to show security vulnerability that your e-mail address registered on bit.ly can be taken if you logged it in
- Sanseido To Begin On-Demand Book Printing Service - fogy idea
- Kyoto Zoo starts lending visitors the iPhone having the guide app called "window to the wildlife".
- Cybird To Release iPhone Barcode Social Dating Simulation Game "Barcode Kanojo"
- Lightweight Handy WordProcessor Pomera Limited Edition Had Misprinted Keytop "Hinagana" Instead Of "Hiragana"(Japanese letter). Maker's announcement
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
Author Information @akky(Akky AKIMOTO) is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for Japan Times, does consultation for foreign companies interested in entering Japanese web market. 
