Twitter Japan official blog announced on January 23 that they added a feature to find friends from your Yahoo! Japan mail address.
Twitter Japan supported Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail and Messenger address books to search your friend on Twitter.
As the country's biggest website, Yahoo Japan is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be successful: Yahoo Box!, the online storage solution Yahoo Japan launched in October, belongs to the latter group.
The company pushed out a blog post, saying that Yahoo Box topped one million users - just three months after release. A very solid number, given how crowded the online storage space is. Just two examples: Naver Japan is offering 30GB for free, while Dropbox is partly localized and already popular in this country, too.
To recap, all Yahoo Japan ID users get 5GB for free, while all Yahoo Japan premium ID holders can use 50GB for free. 1,000GB are priced at 300 Yen (US$3.90) per month for premium members and at 1,000 Yen (US$13) for regular Yahoo Japan users.
According to Yahoo Japan, they have more users for the paid plan (51%) than for the free plan (49%) - this sounds high but is apparently the company factoring all premium members using the service.
Yahoo Box is mainly used for images (65.4%), documents (8.2%), music files (3.4%), and videos (0.7%).
Yahoo! Mobage, a joint social game networking service for PC run by Japan's largest web service Yahoo! Japan and mobile social game giant DeNA, starts a present campaign celebrating its 6 million users registration.
If you play any games on Yahoo! Mobage first in time, and purchase anything on selected stores on Yahoo! Shopping, you will get 1,000 Yahoo! points, which is worth 1,000 yen for shopping on Yahoo!.
Yahoo! Mobage passed 3 million users in March, 5 months after launch, so their adding latter half of the 5 million took 8 months, which is slowed-down. However, the pace is still higher than Facebook, as its active users are around 5.24 million according to SocialBakers (which is not super precise though) currently.
Indeed, people pay lots less on PC social game if you compare with Japanese feature phone social game, but Yahoo! Mobage is taking up a firm position with people who play social game on PC based social network in Japan.
Yahoo! Japan started its own Android Market, Yahoo! Market [J] on October 9.
The market is based on Android applications information from the official Android Market, comes with Android app news provided by several Japanese Android app review media/blogs, such like Octoba, Sumaho-Girl, Andronavi, EX Droid, giveUp de Android, etc. Over 300 reviews per month is expected, which is the largest in Japanese according to Yahoo! Japan.
Each app page, most of which information seem to be taken from the official Android Market and so there are not only Japanese but all language apps, has a link to Yahoo!'s popular Q&A service Chiebukuro (Japanese version of Yahoo! Answers) so that users will ask about the app to all Yahoo! Chiebukuro users.
Currently, it seems to be just another app review site, though it has many reviews providers and potential visitors from Yahoo! Japan. According to Japan Internet.com, Yahoo! Japan is planning to implement apps registration/sale functions in Spring 2012.
I noticed that the site's top-level navigation has "Android App" button, which does not make much sense if only with it. Yahoo! Market may have another corners, maybe iOS and/or Windows Phone apps later.
Press Release [J]
Yahoo Japan, the country's biggest website, has launched a new service dubbed Yahoo Box today. Yahoo Box is an online storage service with three plans:
Yahoo Japan says Yahoo Box users can share and access files through PCs (app and browser), smartphone (browser only), and feature phones (browser only). A special app for Android is already out, a Yahoo Box iOS app is in the works.
Yahoo Box competes with Naver N Drive, Dropbox (which is quite popular in Japan), and other online storage systems.
At the end of the first quarter of the current fiscal year, Yahoo Japan boasted 25.72 milion active user IDs (7.22 million premium members).
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