Dot War is a Flash-based strategy game with thousands of generated units from your, your friends’ or random Twitter icons. On the start menu, you may choose “single scenario”, “manual match-up” or “automatic VS mode”. You may manipulate your troops by mouse, or in the automatic mode, your setting two icons fight in auto-play. And… Continue reading Dot War – Command Your Twitter Icon Battalion
Year: 2010
Meet-up Call: Startup Dating Preliminary Edition To Be Held Next Tuesday
Usually Asiajin covers what people are doing and have achieved in Japanese and Asian tech communities, but today I’m writing something about what I and my friends will do for accelerating the communities here in Tokyo. Takeshi Hirano[J] from TechCrunch Japan[J], Hiro Maeda from NetPrice.com and I will jointly organize a networking event titled “Startup… Continue reading Meet-up Call: Startup Dating Preliminary Edition To Be Held Next Tuesday
CNBC Pranked By Japanese Photoshopper
Bloomberg reported that Japanese Ministry of Finance posted a silly ad to solicit young Japanese guys to buy government bonds on popular free magazine R25, which is a true story. To Japanese’ credit, many people here were amazed by silliness of the ad project, and got angry against who spent tax for this. The magazine… Continue reading CNBC Pranked By Japanese Photoshopper
Uniqlo’s Twitter Mashup Sportweet
Uniqlo, Japan based apparel chainstore, who has been releasing your tweets visualization actively, just released another one with sports as its theme, Sportweet. As usual, your Twitter account name is required. (Last time on Lucky Line, they demanded unnecessary Twitter password and was critisized) Your tweets are visually designed with some athletes, such like a… Continue reading Uniqlo’s Twitter Mashup Sportweet
Spacecraft Carrying Asteroid Sample Returns; Landing Process To Be Ustreamed From Australian Desert
Hayabusa (peregrine falcon in Japanese) is an unmanned space mission to return a sample of material from the asteroid Itokawa. The spacecraft launched from Japan seven years ago, and succeeded to land on the asteroid. It is now returning to the earth and will be landing in Woomera Prohibited Area, Australia today. The final landing… Continue reading Spacecraft Carrying Asteroid Sample Returns; Landing Process To Be Ustreamed From Australian Desert
Japanese recipe site Cookpad in overdrive, doubles sales and profits
In case you didn’t know: Japan is the only country in the world that has a listed recipe site, Cookpad. After going IPO at the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange last July, its current market cap stands at a staggering $370 million. Over the weekend, the eponymous company behind the site reported [PDF]… Continue reading Japanese recipe site Cookpad in overdrive, doubles sales and profits
No Dish? Don’t Panic, iPad Is On Your Side.
There is no right way or wrong way. Looks yummy tonkatsu. There need to be karashi mustard. Photo by zoo_200 And why iPhone 4 looks familiar to Japanese people (via @miyagawa) You can check how these gates are working on this movie, Tokyo train IC card system. Some use card, another use cellphone.
Computer-Synthesized Vocal Album Tops The Japanese Chart First In History
Probably first in the world history? Oricon(Japanese Billboard)’s [J] CD album chart in 5th week of May 2010 reported that the week’s No.1 was “EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku” [J, Amazon Japan], which is a compilation album by Vocaloids, a series brand for several voice synthesis software packages based on Yamaha’s technology published… Continue reading Computer-Synthesized Vocal Album Tops The Japanese Chart First In History
A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically
Japan is increasing Twitter addicts everyday. Percentage of Japanese tweets is now about 20% and chasing USA’s 27% (by TweetSentiments). On May 30th, a Japanese girl cosplayer(= costume player, person whose hobby is wearing fictional characters costume) Jekyll Yui [J], who had been sending 50-250 tweets everyday on her Twitter account @_01 [J], stopped tweeting… Continue reading A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically
Rakuten Announced Its Chinese Brand Name
Japanese e-shopping mall colossus Rakuten, who are cooperating with China No.1 Search Engine Baidu to open joint e-mall in Chinese web, disclosed their Chinese name [J]. The three Chinese letters, pronounced the same “Rakuten” are consist of original “Rakuten” in Japanese two letters and a new letter at the middle of original two. The first… Continue reading Rakuten Announced Its Chinese Brand Name