As Japan’s third company, Gazopa, a Hitachi-backed search engine for images, presented at TechCrunch50 today (the final day). Hideki Kobayashi, project leader at Gazopa, did a great job explaining the service, which makes it possible to look for images on the web similar to images you can upload to Gazopa or right-click on (on any… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Gazopa delivers a great presentation on their image search engine
Month: September 2008
From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Sekai Camera provides social tagging for the iPhone, delivers strange presentation
Tonchidot, a Tokyo-based start-up, was the second Japanese party presenting at this year’s TechCrunch50 conference that currently takes place in San Francisco. Their presentation today was probably the most talked about of day 2 (tomorrow is the last day of the conference) but in my view, this is because of the wrong reasons. As stated… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Sekai Camera provides social tagging for the iPhone, delivers strange presentation
Greasemetal – Google Chrome Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a popular Firefox AddOn which enables users to insert customized Javascripts on top of websites, to extend website functionality. Greasemetal is a Greasemonkey-like user Javascript inserter extension for Google Chrome. It is only a week after Google Chrome release, and done without having extension capability provided. By this Greasemetal, you may add any… Continue reading Greasemetal – Google Chrome Greasemonkey
From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
I am at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco right now (you might know I am a writer for the TechCrunch network). The Wifi was off so my report is a little late, sorry: Yesterday, a start-up from Tokyo called Rinen presented their product, Opentrace, to the 1,700-people crowd. Rinen has neither a company… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50
OpenTrace is a service that “Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment” (from TechCrunch). OpenTrace is run by Rinen Inc, which is owned by Hirofumi Manganji and Hiroaki Shimachi. Rinen has received a Japanese government grant called Exploratory Software Project which is given… Continue reading Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50
Cookpad – the number one recipe site
Cookpad is the biggest recipe site in Japan, and has 416,000 recipes on the site. Alexa shows that Cookpad has a higher rating than Food Network or AllRecipes (with 40,000 recipes). Cookpad has 4.5 million unique visitors per month, and 280 million page views per month. Ofcourse, recipes are posted by users. Unlike other recipe… Continue reading Cookpad – the number one recipe site
A Summary of Sales Situation of Mobile Devices: Global and Japanese Market
Today we have many mobile devices that can access to the internet thorugh it’s wi-fi function or cellular data network. Here is a summary for number of sales of major devices; Global market and Japanese market. ■Global Market iPhone 3G 3mil.（ As of Aug. 11） Source: 1 iPhone (2G+3G） 8mil.（ As of Sep.1） Source: 1… Continue reading A Summary of Sales Situation of Mobile Devices: Global and Japanese Market
MySpace Japan accepts Yahoo! Japan ID
Web power maps are different between Japan and English-web, as we have been showing examples (1, 2, 3). Now, another interesting cooperation which won’t happen in USA is announced. MySpace depends on Yahoo’s account. Now, MySpace Japan has a link “Log in by Yahoo! Japan ID” below the regular log-in form. You will be forwarded… Continue reading MySpace Japan accepts Yahoo! Japan ID
Hatsugen komachi – an anonymous online forum for women
In Japan, 2channel (2ch) is the biggest anonymous online forum, and they are very notorious for its unregulated contents. Hatsugen komachi (Komachi) is another huge anonymous online forum with 100 million page views per month. Komachi is operated by the world’s largest newspaper company Yomiuri-shimbun. Unlike 2ch, it’s moderated by operators. Still words are not… Continue reading Hatsugen komachi – an anonymous online forum for women
Yahoo Japan to Launch Interest Matching Advertising Technology
Last week I attended an information event for Bloggers organized by Agile Media hosted at Yahoo! Japan’s offices in Tokyo Midtown. The theme of the event was Yahoo Japan’s soon to be launched ‘Interest Match‘ [J] advertising service. The technology displays adverts based on previous pages people have viewed and page referrer information in addition… Continue reading Yahoo Japan to Launch Interest Matching Advertising Technology