Ohma Inc., a Tokyo-based tech start-up known for semantic web-based who’s-who app Spysee[J], released a Kickstarter-like crowd fundraising service called “ReadyFor?[J]” this week. The service intends to giving fundraising opportunities to amateur filmmakers, musicians and artists who would like to publish their works. If you invest in someone’s plan to develop his/her work, in return,… Continue reading Ready For: A New Crowd Fundraising Site For Artists Launches
Day: March 31, 2011
TwitVoice Allows You To Leave Instant Voice Messages Via Twitter
Tokyo-based tech start-up Pido[J] unveiled the company’s first iPhone app today, which is called TwitVoice[J] and allows you to leave your voice messages via Twitter. It’s a free app, and you can tweet with your real voice recorded within fifteen seconds. The company expects to add some features in the future to attract the… Continue reading TwitVoice Allows You To Leave Instant Voice Messages Via Twitter
Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 3 Million Members
Japan has quite a few “social drawing services” that let users upload self-drawn images and connect with each other. But Pixiv is the biggest of them all. The eponymous company behind the service has announced that Pixiv hit 3 million members on March 29. The number of users doubled since January last year, when we… Continue reading Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 3 Million Members