Blame Avatar’s hit on screen. Many of Japanese big portal showed great originality on April Fools’ Day. Half a day ahead to 3D services launch in USA. The No.1 Yahoo! Japan announced their migration to 3D top page on Microsoft Silverlight technology. No.4 portal (by visitors, according to the NetRatings 2007 research [J]) Nifty No.… Continue reading Japanese April Fools’ Day Is 3D! 3D! 3D!
Year: 2010
TV Agony Aunt Based On Popular Female Online Forum Starts
Hatsugen Komachi, another huge anonymous online forum, popular to women, run by the world largest newspaper company Yomiuri Shimbun, will become a satellite TV program “Komachi TV” in advice-column-on-television style since April 2nd. # “Komachi” is a synonym for beautiful women in Japanese, which came from 9th century poet Ono no Komachi. In the 30… Continue reading TV Agony Aunt Based On Popular Female Online Forum Starts
Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
Nikkei reported [J, subscription required] that Yahoo! Japan and Taobao are discussing to interconnect their shopping services between Japan and China in summer. Yahoo! Japan holds Yahoo! Shopping, No.2 online shopping service after Rakuten Ichiba. Taobao is China’s largest shopping site in Alibaba group. Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba are related via the common investor Softbank.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
Japan e-Business Assc. Blames Court For Rejecting Online Drag Sales
Online drag retailers Kenko.com in Tokyo and Wellnet[J] in Yokohama have sued Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for seeking to lift the ban on online drag sales, and Tokyo District Court[J] dismissed the suit on Tuesday. Japan e-Business Association[J], consisting of e-commerce giants such as Rakuten and Yahoo Japan, announced a comment blaming… Continue reading Japan e-Business Assc. Blames Court For Rejecting Online Drag Sales
GMO Co-Launches New Project To Incubate Social App Providers
GMO Internet, Japan’s leading provider in ISP, web server hosting, domain registration etc., kicked off a new project in order to boost potential developers to create new social apps last weekend. GMO Venture Partners (GMO-VP)[J], a GMO’s arm in their investment and incubation business, set up a project called “Apuri Yarouze!” (Let’s create social apps!)[J]… Continue reading GMO Co-Launches New Project To Incubate Social App Providers
Giving Characters To Camera Fits Anime Fans’ Taste?
Cerevo[J], the Akihabara-based tech start-up and manufacturer of the Internet-enabled home appliances, started the sales of the spin-off version of the company’s hot-selling camera CEREVO CAM yesterday. The version is called Cerevot, and it has an embedded speech synthesizer that can make it speak something when you release the shutter or turn the flash on. … Continue reading Giving Characters To Camera Fits Anime Fans’ Taste?
Japanese Community Radio Services Can Be Tuned In Around The Globe With iPhone
On Wednesday, Tokyo-based tech start-up, Flight System Consulting[J] released the iPhone/iPod touch app that allows you to listen to Japanese community FM radio services over the Internet, in association with CSRA[J] or Community Simul Radio Alliance. The app costs 350 yen. At the time of the app’s release, nine stations participating in the alliance can… Continue reading Japanese Community Radio Services Can Be Tuned In Around The Globe With iPhone
All Major Commercial TV Broadcasters And Two Biggest Ads Agencies Shake Hands For Yahoo! Japan Streaming Video Site
Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that their last year acquiring video streaming service Gyao [J] got investment from TV Asahi Corporation(TV Asahi), Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.(TBS), TV TOKYO Corporation(TV Tokyo), Dentsu Inc. and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc. Yahoo! Gyao already was invested by Nippon Television Network Corporation(Nippon TV) and Fuji Television Network, Inc.(Fuji TV),… Continue reading All Major Commercial TV Broadcasters And Two Biggest Ads Agencies Shake Hands For Yahoo! Japan Streaming Video Site
Twitter Following Puyo Puyo
A Tokyo Twitter User @TeeeeKee plays on Twitter Following panel by displaying puzzle game Puyo Puyo. Check it out it is amazing. [Update] Accounts were suspended, and the original developer made a page how it was displayed. [Update] 37 users seem to be suspended by official.
User-generated Web Apps Are Being Born Around IP Simulcast Radio Service
As Akky reported here on Asiajin, the Association of IP Simulcast Radio launched Radiko.jp[J] on Monday, almost a week has been passed. It has been attracting potential radio lovers using desktop or laptop on a daily basis, which caused network heavy load against the service on the day of the service launch. Furthermore, some of… Continue reading User-generated Web Apps Are Being Born Around IP Simulcast Radio Service