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The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory

Mixi, the biggest social network service in Japan, started their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC on last month. Mixi Appli Mobile is planned to follow this month. After couple of months closed beta test, Mixi successfully lined up 130 applications by third parties and affiliated startups,… Continue reading The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory

Google Japan’s In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By “Google”

In Tokyo Metro train, I noticed small ads by Google Japan. The ads are for Google Mobile Search promotion. This one suggests to search Google by “Shibuya Movie” when you want to know if the film “Taken” can be watched from now in your location (Shibuya). So Google Japan wants more cellphone users to use… Continue reading Google Japan’s In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By “Google”

Mi-in sigye: Korean compny offers Korean Hot-girl clock gadget similar with Bijin-tokei

Korea based company Megacoms[KR] offers clock gadget “Mi-in sigye” at Talkon. Mi-in means “beautiful girl” in Korean. It shows ramdom street-casted 3 hundred Korean girls holding up sign which wrote current time. Its concept, feature and functionality are almost identical with Bijin-Tokei [J], which we covered the gadget and the iPhone App before. There… Continue reading Mi-in sigye: Korean compny offers Korean Hot-girl clock gadget similar with Bijin-tokei

Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages

A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program. The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which generates OCaml code, which generates Haskell code, which generates C code, which generates Java code, which generates Brainfuck code, which generates Whitespace code, which… Continue reading Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages

Japanese Comics Target The World’s Second Most Populated Market

An NTT group company in mobile content development, NTT Solmare, and Kyoto-based mobile content developer Zero-Sum started distributing Japanese comic titles for cellphone users in India last Friday. The service is provided to the users of the country’s 6th ranked mobile carrier Tata Teleservices, and is also expected to start for the country’s 3rd ranked… Continue reading Japanese Comics Target The World’s Second Most Populated Market

In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k

One of the big differences between the web in Japan versus America or Europe is the way sites are being monetized. Generally speaking, the level of acceptance for the freemium model seems to be higher among Japanese users. As a ballpark number, it’s safe to say that usually between five and 15 percent of users… Continue reading In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k

Japanese Cellphone Manual Goes In Manga Comic

Different from other countries where cartoon are mostly for kids, in Japan, manga (Japanese style comic) nation, many grown-up keep reading manga through their lives and eventually almost all kind of things, which are covered in type texts books in other culture, are provided in manga. (for example, last Manga I read was a biograph… Continue reading Japanese Cellphone Manual Goes In Manga Comic

Mixi Echo Becomes Mixi Voice To Chase Twitter

Japan’s biggest social network service Mixi [J, registration required], who had started in-service microblog Mixi Echo since last summer, renamed it with Mixi Voice and made it as an “official” service. User’s top page has Voice’s messages just under profile icon. “More” link takes you to the Voice page, which looks more familiar with Twitter… Continue reading Mixi Echo Becomes Mixi Voice To Chase Twitter

Amazon Japan’s Counterattacks To Rakuten Books

Amazon Japan v.s. Japan’s local Rakuten battle was recently well covered on TechCrunch (by our buddy Serkan Toto, of course). Amazon is doing pretty good localization on their main part, books, but draining duel against Rakuten in many shopping categories. Amazon Japan’s shipping fee 300 yen (3.3 USD) has been waived if a customer purchases… Continue reading Amazon Japan’s Counterattacks To Rakuten Books