Takako Kansai, a developer working at User Local,Inc.[J] has released a service to measure the popularity of tweets. Takako Kansai’s blog[J] The service named ReTweeter!, shows how many users could have read your tweets from number of your followers and ReTweets. ReTweeter! Features of ReTweeter! are; You can check how many users can read your… Continue reading ReTweeter! – Measure The Popularity Of Your Tweets
Month: August 2009
23 Feet High T-Shirt For Tokyo Gundam Auctioned
Club T, one of the biggest online T-shirts seller (like threadless) in Japan, suggests 7 meters high T-shirt which fits the Odaiba real-sized Gundam statue. The 7m x 4.7m T-shirt, which is designed to the real size Gundam, will be tailored and shipped after one month, though it fails to meet the end date of… Continue reading 23 Feet High T-Shirt For Tokyo Gundam Auctioned
To Learn Their Real Intentions, “Tokyo Nylon Girls” Debuts
On Friday, Tokyo-based website development company Level-Q[J] launched a brand new webzine named “Tokyo Nylon Girls[J]” after the synthetic fiber symbolizing a girl, because it is finer than a spider’s thread, more shiny than silk, and more solid than steel. Rie Tomimoto[J], also known as Jibunya 24[J] (see this article), serves as the editor-in-chief of… Continue reading To Learn Their Real Intentions, “Tokyo Nylon Girls” Debuts
An Easy Way To Switch Old-Fashioned Publishers Into Digital
Wayz Japan[J], a Tokyo-based tech start-up company which develops e-publishing platforms, recently released two services that allow old-fashioned publishers to switch themselves into digital as easily as 1-2-3. Last week the company introduced an iPhone/iPod touch app allowing users to browse the latest issues of 400 magazines. Without visiting a bookseller nor worrying about possibly… Continue reading An Easy Way To Switch Old-Fashioned Publishers Into Digital
The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo/Google Do Not Offer
If you ever lived in Japan, you know that Japanese address system is uneasy for people who get used to the western system on which all streets have a name and name+number identify the single location. In Japan, addresses are rather area name. Two Giants Yahoo! Japan and Google have been working well with this… Continue reading The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo/Google Do Not Offer
Ultimate Localization: Twitter Gets Japanese Nickname And Theme Song
Japanese pop singer and song-writer Kohmi Hirose[J] (@kohmi), who has released a number of popular songs in ’90s and been singing winter dating stuffs for young couples, is also one of the celebrity twitterers. Kohmi exchanged many tweets with Kazuyo Katsuma[J] (@kazuyo_k), a friend of her, economist and the best-selling business book author in Japan,… Continue reading Ultimate Localization: Twitter Gets Japanese Nickname And Theme Song
E-Optician: Try It Before Making Any Purchase
When we purchase something to wear on the Internet, what the most unsatisfied thing is that we cannot try it on before making an order. Japanese major clothing e-retailers usually accept returning item even after the item has been tried on. This helps to minimize the disadvantage of e-commerce services, and to make up a… Continue reading E-Optician: Try It Before Making Any Purchase
Can “Moe” Catgirl Make Our Lives So Cheerful?
Wake up in the morning, commute, work, have a lunch, work again, come back home, take a bath and go asleep – for everyday, for ever. Aren’t you bored with monotonous daily routines? A Tokyo-based company, which states creating stimulus things as its corporate mission, will probably make it happen. Xtone[J] (pronounced as “eks-tone”), a… Continue reading Can “Moe” Catgirl Make Our Lives So Cheerful?
All Earphone Bon-Dance Party Held For Noise Abatement
According to an Aichi regional newspaper Chunichi Shimbun [J], there was an interesting new attempt on Bon-Odori, traditional summer dance festival around Japan, to avoid future noise problem bothering neighbors. 15-20 minutes in their regular festival, 50 FM radio are lent to bon dancers, who are attending locals, and they dance with music from their… Continue reading All Earphone Bon-Dance Party Held For Noise Abatement
Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out
In commemoration of announcing “Favorite Places[J]” as a promotion campaign of Google Map, on Monday Google Japan[J] placed “real” red pins at several locations, which imitate mark-up symbols used on Google Map, including JR Shibuya Station and a Buddhist temple next to Tokyo’s fish market that foreign visitors never forget to drop by. The pin… Continue reading Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out