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]
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CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has announced that the number of users of “Kiite Yo! Mirucho” (Listen Up! Mirucho), a new sensation community service for Ameba for Smartphone [J] which connects people through monologues, has topped over 500 thousand.

“Kiite Yo! Mirucho” is a community where you lightheartedly tweet whatever you want “monologues” through a Mirucho mascot character.  You can enjoy the character’s development as Miruchi grows and and evolves, passing through over 50 stages, by tweeting your thoughts and hearing other users’ monologues.  The number of users has grown to over 500 thousand in the half year since its service release in August of 2012, over 100 thousand tweets are made per day, an average of over 20 users react to each post with a “Kiita Yo” (I heard you).  As for the “social fatigue” of loosely connecting on an axis of monologues, it supports carefree communication, and as a unique community service its user base is expanding.

Also, from March 8th, they have begun to offer “Wari To Doh Demo Ii News” (relatively inconsequential news) as a new function.

Kiite Yo! Mirucho [J]
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CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has announced the sales of corporate advertisement products “Ameba Pigg Area Tie-Up with Matsumoto Kiyoshi” which promotes guidance and purchases at real shops, in cooperation with Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Inc. [J], via their 2D virtual space Ameba Pigg [J].

“Ameba Pigg Area Tie-Up with Matsumoto Kiyoshi” is a service which distributes free original Pigg corporate items at a limited term basis at the newly established “Matsumoto Kiyoshi Digital Shop” in the Shibuya area within Ameba Pigg, and furthermore issues coupons that allow customers to get limited original Pigg items when they purchase targeted products at Matsumoto Kiyoshi shops in the same area.  The enterprise allows for sales promotion for over the counter goods at the about 700 Matsumoto Kiyoshi shops in all of Japan simultaneously with the over 14.2 million “Ameba Pigg” users, as it can lead users who simulated products in Ameba Pigg to real shops and promote product purchases.

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CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has announced the establishment of a teens subdivision in December as a new department, in order to strengthen smartphone service for junior high and high school girls at Ameba [J], their online community service.

Currently CyberAgent manages the smartphone service Candy [J] which is used by about 300,000 members with its focus on teenage girls.  They established the teens department, which specializes in developing smartphone service for junior high and high school girls, with the intent of further strengthening developing a service which complies with the interests and method of use particular to these girls.  From now, this department will continue to attract customers and develop the service, making use of “Candy”’s knowhow, and in addition, they will release 4 new services such as a messaging service “DECOLONK,” which allows the use of over 10,000 stamps, and a new profile service “Photofeel.”  Also, in order to take in the needs of teenage girls, they will be doing regular group interviews, marketing surveys, and events for teen girls.  The teens department service at a glance is as follows.

April 2012 start            Teen girl smartphone cute home page service “Candy”
December 2012 service release    New profile service “Photofeel”
Service planned for January 2013     10,000 stamps free messaging service “DECOLINK”
Service planned for February 2013    Friend’s face photos and photo stickers SNS (untitled)
Service planned for March 2013    Girls’ real love story service “Palette”

Candy cute homepage by Ameba [J]

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CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has announced the opening of “GPUImage for Android,” an image conversion framework for Android as an open source for smartphone service development, and “easymock,” a mock server which easily implements transmission tests with a web server.

These open sources were developed for the smartphone auction service Pashaoku [J], which CyberAgent released on August 27th, 2012.  “GPUImage for Android” is an image conversion framework developed for Android, for which until now a representative library did not exist, and it is highly compatible with the iOS version “GPUImage.”  In addition to the possibility for efficient development on a platform that offers service for iOS along with Android, it has features such as original filter functions and response speed.  “easymock” is a mock server that allows the execution of processing tests accompanying necessary web server transmissions for native application development, at step increments during development rather than waiting for the server site.  You can easily test various API expressions, carry out efficient development, and it’s also possible to download the nmp package.  The download site is here [J].

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