Kayac[J], a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, and Tokyo Sports[J] (a.k.a. Toh-spo), a daily sports newspaper company, jointly introduced a blodget[J] on Wednesday, which may make your blog much catchier.
Toh-spo covers sports and show biz news everyday, and it is an yellow paper having a large circulation. Tokyo businessmen love the paper because of its catchy and unique headlines. When you put a mouse cursor over the blodget, a catchy headline generated from the content on your blog will be appeared as the paper’s cover page alike. It has three lines of news ticker which keep you update with a number of “real” and interesting Japanese showbiz news.
The two companies are planning three web-based services starting with the blodget. Kayac released 77 web services in 2007, and 88 services in 2008. The company is stretching itself to make a new record in the number of services released by the end of this year.
Toh-spo is being sold here and there in Tokyo, and the catchy headlines attract passers-by.
(The picture above is a news stand at Hachiko Square, Shibuya Station.)
Masaru IKEDA