2011-03
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Ready For: A New Crowd Fundraising Site For Artists Launches
Ohma Inc., a Tokyo-based tech start-up known for semantic web-based who’s-who app Spysee[J], released a Kickstarter-like crowd fundraising service called “ReadyFor?[J]” this week. …
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TwitVoice Allows You To Leave Instant Voice Messages Via Twitter
Tokyo-based tech start-up Pido[J] unveiled the company’s first iPhone app today, which is called TwitVoice[J] and allows you to leave your voice messages via Twitter. It’s a free app, and …
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Social Illustration Service Pixiv Hits 3 Million Members
Japan has quite a few “social drawing services” that let users upload self-drawn images and connect with each other. But Pixiv is the biggest of them all. The eponymous company behind the …
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Kinect Driven "Ghost in the Shell" Cyberspace
Kamakura based web/app company Kayac reproduced a cyber space in a popular anime series “Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex(S.A.C.)” at Parco Part 1 department store, Shibuya, …
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Weekly Comics Shonen Jump Makes One Issue Free Online By Quake
Shoeisha made a 2011’s 15th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, the most popular Japanese manga(comic) magazine which is sold 3 million copies every week, online for free on Yahoo! Japan [J] and Nico …
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2channel Founder's 10 Million Yen Donation Rejected By Groupon Japan
Groupon Japan, local operator of successful digital coupon company Groupon, which drew cold stares by the new year’s trouble, was one of the fast web companies who started the earthquake victims …
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Wiki Covering 11 Countries: Digital Media Across Asia
Here is some recommended reading, probably of value for just about everybody reading Asiajin: in 2007, Students at Singapore Management University have created a wiki called “Digital Media …
