The teens division of CyberAgent [J] has released the cute self-photo and makeup research community for teen girls Make me [J].

The teens division is a post designated for developing smartphone services for high school girls, and up until this time has been offering the smartphone decorative homepage service “Candy,” the photo only profile service “Photofeel,” the messenger app “DECOLINK,” the love story specialized community “Palette,” and now the release of “Make me” makes this their fifth service installment.

“Make me” is a research community for makeup techniques and taking cuter self-photos, bringing attention to the over 80 percent of teen girls who take photos of their own faces.  Users choose their own preference from 14 makeup genres such as forest girl, princess gal, sexy, or punk, can then post self-photos, contribute cosmetic or makeup items, and also research makeup techniques and makeup items with user peers in the same genre.  Furthermore, there’s a beauty function which easily allows processing the skin color on the face photo to a more light complexion, various filters and over 100 stamps, combining with picture frames and so on to make it possible to produce a more cutesy self-photo.  Public and private settings can be selected, and it also allows posting simultaneously on Ameba, mixi, or Twitter.

Make me [J]
free

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A Twitter user @suzuki_jidouka (Suzuki is a Japanese surname, jidouka means automation) showed that he had created a robot for his little sister who wants to earn more coins on coin pusher game on smartphone.

妹から『コイン落としのゲームで効率的に稼ぎたいからスマホ画面を1秒間に2回くらい一晩中タップし続ける機械が作れないか』と，かなりヨコシマな打診あり。仕方ないので作成。子供がいるので安全性の配慮となるべくシンプルな作りに気をつけたつもり pic.twitter.com/BF1eDusFOK

— 鈴木自動化 (@suzuki_jidouka) June 2, 2013

The sister asked him if she would earn points effectively by tapping the smartphone screen twice per second all through the night (while she sleeps).

Suzuki assembled this machine with Tamiya’s construction kits, with caring safety for kids.

It worked good but the only problem is that it makes pretty big noise.

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Eisys, Inc. [J] has officially released the beautiful girls social game platform Nijiyome [J] in Japan.  Also, continuing on from the beta opening, they are carrying out a campaign where you can receive “Niji Coins,” the virtual currency used in “Nijiyome.”

“Nijiyome” is a platform for social games where beautiful girl characters appear; the key phrase here is “2D yome” (2D bride).  It’s a platform for web browsers on tablet or smartphone, and it supports both iPhone and Android.
* They are expanding their number of offered titles from the beta opening and official opening, and from now will continue to add games for distribution.
* Furthermore, commemorating the official release, they are offering the folling campaign:
* Nijiyome open commemoration – introducing friends campaign
http://nijiyome.jp/campaign/invite?ln=link_camp1 [J]
* Nijiyome open commemoration part 2 – Kureka registration campaign
http://nijiyome.jp/campaign/apply?ln=link_camp2 [J]

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Today, Yahoo! Japan official blog published the follow-up announcement [J] of the possible 22 million account name leaks on 17th.

According to it, further investigation reached the conclusion that more data beyond account name could be brought out for 1.486 million accounts. The data are non-decrypt-able password (password hash, I guess) and information used when you reset password.

To protect those users account, Yahoo! Japan temporarily turned off the password reset feature, which asks user’s secret questions, 19 p.m. tonight. The relevant users will get their password and secret questions reset in early morning 24th.

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Asahi Digital published an interview of new Mixi president Yusuke Asakura [J], titled “Mixi expand to free call app business beyond social network” today.

Mixi quickly released a short release that it is not a fact [J].

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