Japanese portal site livedoor announced today that they started a new free hosting service EDGE co. Lab. Developers/entrepreneurs can get hosted servers from livedoor and run their web service without charge. The conditions are; “Powered by EDGE” must be shown somewhere on the page livedoor OpenID and (if possible) livedoor Auth API need to be… Continue reading livedoor started “Geocities 2.0”
Month: October 2008
Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone
Softbank Mobile announced today to release 1-seg digital TV tuner device for iPhone in the middle of December. The 80-gram device provides the feature of TV over WiFi (converting TV signal received to IP-based data for iPhone) and doubles as a battery extender. Three hours continuous TV viewing is available. Price is not announced so… Continue reading Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone
GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone
Official Google Blog (Japanese) announced [J] that their gmail on PC now became capable to send Emoji, emoticon-like letters supported by Japanese cellphones. (receiving emoji-mail from cellphone has been supported already.) Even in English mode of gmail, your “Rich formatting” mode has a new set of emoji selector. I sent a mail with emoji-s from… Continue reading GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone
Sun and Recruit’s Mashup Awards 4
On Sunday, 19th October, Mashup Awards 4 , Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit‘s [Recruit on Asiajin] web-service mashup development contest award ceremony was held at Recruit headoffice, next to the Tokyo station. The contest, 4th this time, gathered 44 companies’ web service API from many of Japanese web companies such like Yahoo Japan, Google Japan,… Continue reading Sun and Recruit’s Mashup Awards 4
Register for the New Context Conference 2008 in Tokyo (November 5-6) [UPDATE]
Canceling this year’s Web 2.0 Expo in Tokyo was considered a mild disappointment in the Japanese web world. But now it seems Digital Garage‘s New Context Conference 2008 [J], a 2-day event full of high-profile speakers from the Japanese and international Internet industry, can more than make up for it. The event is being organized… Continue reading Register for the New Context Conference 2008 in Tokyo (November 5-6) [UPDATE]
Open Web Asia ’08 – Video Report
Open Web Asia ’08 started. I wrote here that WiFi connection worked well yesterday, yes exactly, the signal was strong enough, but I found I couldn’t get bandwidth enough to bring live pictures with Ustream, because a number of audiences using WiFi came together in a very tiny room of the hotel. Andrew Shuttleworth, an… Continue reading Open Web Asia ’08 – Video Report
Asiajin news updates
There are some updates on the topics Asiajin reported recently. Let me write them shortly. Cyber-Maid becomes purchasable next week Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality was one of the most read article in July, which is about a girl on your PC display virtually tangible. Dennoh Figure ARis“(Cyber Figure Alice) sale will start on 19th October as… Continue reading Asiajin news updates
Countdown to Open Web Asia ’08
As announced a lot here on Asiajin, Open Web Asia ’08 is held in Seoul tomorrow, where web industry CEOs, experts and venture capitalists come together to talk about the future of web in Asia. I just arrived here at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill a few hours ago, and I was wandering around to check the conference venue.… Continue reading Countdown to Open Web Asia ’08
Tokyo2point0 Event: Press Army and social learning site iKnow!
This month’s Tokyo2point0 event (our reports on former events) took place on Monday again at the Super Deluxe in Roppongi. These two presentations were delivered. UltraSuperNew’s Press Army UltraSuperNew‘s director Michael Sheetal delivered a presentation on “Press Army”, a bilingual web service, which is geared mainly towards companies. Press Army enables users to automatically monitor,… Continue reading Tokyo2point0 Event: Press Army and social learning site iKnow!
Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier
Oishiku Henkan (lit. Yummy Converter) is a web service which adjust automatically a color balance of an uploaded JPEG image of food to make the food image look yummier. It’s a very simple service, but the result is quite impressive. I tried with a picture of my own, and it has improved very much. Note:… Continue reading Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier