Asiajin co-founder Akky Akimoto(@akky), Shunichi Arai(@araipiyo) and author Masaru Ikeda(@masaruikeda) are now staying in Taipei and will have a readers meet-up event on Sunday. If you’re interested in attending it, please subscribe to this Plancast link to keep you update with the latest information. (We’ll keep this blog post update as well.) 大きな地図で見る Venue: Mr.… Continue reading Update: Asiajin To Host Readers Meet-up in Taipei This Weekend
Month: January 2010
Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads
Japan’s second largest ad agency Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Sony CSL‘s spin-out specializing in developing location detection technology with WiFi signals Koozyt and the country’s second-ranked newspaper in its circulation the Asahi Shimbun jointly started a new ad service using the iPhone today. The new service is named A-Clip, by installing the iPhone app and… Continue reading Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads
“Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy
An interview to the president of Yahoo! Japan Masahiro Inoue (photo) by Nikkei Business Magazine with a catchy title “Google? I think none of their services are cool.” is getting huge attentions in Japanese web. To answer the interviewer’s comment “By comparing Google’s services such like Street View and Book Search, Yahoo! seems not to… Continue reading “Google Is Nothing Special” Yahoo! Japan President Brags Their Supremacy
Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly
Japanese “social illustration site” Pixiv continues to amaze. The site, which lets users present self-made drawings to other users and offers a number of basic social networking functionalities, now counts a whopping 1.5 million members [JP]. Not bad for a completely domestic site that’s only available in Japanese (although some foreigners exhibit their works on… Continue reading Social illustration network Pixiv now has 1.5 million members, racks up 1 billion PVs monthly
Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan
Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon’s company which manages and sells cloud computing services like EC2, S3, CloudFront, etc., is turned out to open its Japanese subsidiary Amazon Data Services Japan at unknown time in 2009, talked by one of their two employees at Japan Amazon EC2 Users Group, a blog Publickey reported [J]. At… Continue reading Amazon Opens Cloud Subsidiary In Japan
Asiajin iPhone/iPod Touch Reader App Debuts
Hong Kong-, Tokyo-, Silicon Valley- and London-based tech start-up MotherApp has kindly developed the iPhone/iPod Touch app which allows Asiajin readers to get the latest news more easily on their palms. The company specializes in developing apps for multiple mobile platforms only by simple and single development process, and won the first prize of the… Continue reading Asiajin iPhone/iPod Touch Reader App Debuts
The World Biggest QR Code By Audi Japan Employees
I found this on YouTube, Audi Japan and its sales subsidiary Audi Japan Sales‘s making movie of a huge QR code in gymnasium. According to Nikkan Jidousha Shimbun [J], this was made in July 2009. I could read the QR code on the movie with my Android phone with Barcode Scanner app. The code points… Continue reading The World Biggest QR Code By Audi Japan Employees
Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System
As we reported last month, Japanese government announced their new website to collect people’s voice. However, it turned out that they had thought that they would be able to take “.com” domain AFTER their announcement. Of course they could not. All possible domains both in Roman alphabets and Japanese (international domain name) were quickly occupied.… Continue reading Japanese Government Has To Learn Internet And Domain System
450 Celebrities & Entertainers Have Blog Passwords Stolen From Ameba
Ameba Blog[J] a.k.a. Ameblo, which is well-known for marking the highest number of serving celebrities’ blogs among Japanese blog platforms, announced that some 450 passwords that allow participating celebrities to update their blogs have been stolen and leaked out. No suspect has been confirmed so far. On January 1st, an image of a Japanese-style envelope… Continue reading 450 Celebrities & Entertainers Have Blog Passwords Stolen From Ameba
Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi
On the first day of this new year, Kanagawa-headquartered funny web app developer Kayac launched a new service which allows you to decorate your Twitter icon with sushi items. The service, which is named Twitter Sushi, works in conjunction with Twitter, you are allowed to choose a sushi from varieties such as a chunky omelet… Continue reading Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi