Continued from (Part 1)
Second half of April news which we did not write as a dedicated article.
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- First Twitter TV Drama Synopsis
- Twitter Drama’s First Episode Viewing Rate Was 11.9%, which is not so great
- Yahoo! Japan News Editorial Chief Published A Book “How to make Yahoo! Topics”
- Yokosuka’s fishermen’s cooperative starts direct sales of fishery caught.
- Unemployed Killed Father And Baby, Because Internet Access Was Stopped
- Twitter Drama Watchers Thought Twitter As Dodgy Dating Service – one got e-mail caution from brother
- Open Network Lab – Digital Garage, Netprice and Kakaku.com Opens Labs To Assist Entrepreneur Engineers Go Oversea [pdf] – Serkan Toto covered this on TechCrunch [En]
- Dentsu to Establish Dentsu Entertainment USA to Develop Original Content and Expand Global Licensing Sales [En], release [pdf]
- Yahoo! Japan and Macromill Talking On Yahoo Value Insight Merge To Macromill via Reuter
- Ramen Tairiku Minimalist’s Windows Twitter Client For Office Workers
- Kyoto-based Questetra Listed On Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in BPM, 2010” [En]
- Android Twitter Client Twicca More Popular In English Than Japanese (The 4th in a certain poll)
- GMO Ad Partners Buys Ad Network NeoAd Company Sanoh From Unoh
- Ajinomoto also starts “link to Twitter” TVCF including the promotion with a Twitter bot called Aji-Panda.
- Just System Releases Shogun’s Mail Client
- Japan’s government revitalization unit decided the following five companies as streaming broadcasters of budget screening live. NicoNico, Stickam, Ustream, ShareCast and DMM.com.
- KLab Closes Social Network Yumy Despites One Million Users Achieved
- HDMI Cable Extender By LAN Cable
- Asahi Shimbun Starts Web Shinsho (Web Book)
- HTML5 Dragon Quest (Firefox 3.6 Only)
- Illustration Embedded QR Code Generator QR-JAM (Windows, Freeware)
- Starbucks-NTTBP Free WiFi Hotspot Campaign For May
- AR Breast Enlargement (Was April Fool’s Prank, but AR part works)
- World Networked Fraudulent Click Provider Surprised Net Users By Its Too Direct Explanation How They Make Your Site Access Up
- KDDI Starts Cellphone Drivers License Experiment
- 100shiki (From Gundam) PC Chassis
- iPhone Namecard Scanner App via @kurimax
- Japanese ex-Indonesian Third Lady Dewi Sukarno Accuses Ameblo By Her Blog Comments Censored
- Axe Summer Day Dream
- Lawson’s Evangelion flagship store in Hakone, then cancelled because of too many fans gathered
- Sony To Terminate Selling Floppy Disk – ReadWriteWeb covered this news.
- Full Size Manga Ad Only With QR Code On Today’s Asahi Shimbun – linked here
- WordCamp Yokohama 2010 officially announced
- Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC To Standardize Next Generation Cellphone OS. Four Companies Occupies About 70% Of Japan Market Share, release by NTT Docomo
- Kids screaming detection iPhone app
- Square-Enix’s Japan-style iPhone App Takes Top On Several Countries
- Twitter Similar Icon Search “Kao-twi” (only works within half an million Japanese users)
- Ustream Menu Localized To Japanese. Ustream.jp covered by Mashable
- NetRatings Compare Mixi/Facebook, Mixi/Twitter Users Volume [pdf]
- MyGengo New Translation API Released
- CNET Japan (Part Of Asahi Shimbun) Trying To Close Readers Blog, Spurs protests
- One Senario Of New LovePlus+, Virtual Dating Game, Requires You To Travel All 47 Prefectures To Complete
- Gree Announced To Move Into Roppongi Hills This Summer. Same As Google Japan via CEO’s tweet
- NTT Docomo To Sell Mini SIM For iPad – will iPad not be exclusive?
- ANA Allies With Mobile Geolocation Service Colopura
- Softbank’s Music Labels Purchase Cancelled
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
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