No, not yet. Italian social media consultant Vincenzo Cosenza updated world map of social networks, and on this June 2012 version, Japan is painted in Facebook color. I just refer my past articles. 2011: The year when Japan went global over social networking | The Japan Times Online Asiajin » Follow-up Of The Social Networking… Continue reading Is Facebook Japan’s No.1 Social Networks?
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Orenoyome – Pinterest for Otaku
Oreno Yome wo Jiman suru Saito (A website to boast my wife) is a new Japanese service where to post your favorite photos of “yome”, which literally means wife, but in Otaku context, “ore no yome” means anything but your real human being wife, on which female character assigned, and on which you put your… Continue reading Orenoyome – Pinterest for Otaku
Japan’s Web News Week 23
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Nintendo Expresses Anger On Nikkei’s Scoop Around Coming Wii U, “Full Of Mistakes And Complete Conjecture” Yahoo! Search Blog Forecast The Coming 4th Election Of… AKB48 DeNA Brings Mobage To Chinese… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 23
Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani Publishes A Book “Englishnization”
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japan’s largest online e-commerce mall Rakuten, announced [J] on his twitter account that his new book on how he is letting his company and employees adapt to English. 英語化の話しを本に書きました。ビジネスマンだけでなく、様々な人に読んでもらえたらと思っております。前二冊と同様印税についてはすべて寄付させて頂きます。 [楽天]http://t.co/1YJcbdJv [本] #rbooks pic.twitter.com/ugJ5lAYU — 三木谷浩史 H. Mikitani (@hmikitani) June 7, 2012 “I have written up on how to make things into… Continue reading Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani Publishes A Book “Englishnization”
Anti-Cyber Attack Alert System “DAEDALUS” Looks Very “Ghost In The Shell”-ish
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) announced “DAEDALUS” (Direct Alert Environment for Darknet And Livenet Unified Security) system on June 6. The system has nationwide distributed surveillance network to watch so-called darknet, a part of the Internet which IP address are not supposed to be used. There are non-ignorable amount of digital… Continue reading Anti-Cyber Attack Alert System “DAEDALUS” Looks Very “Ghost In The Shell”-ish
Buying A 173,250 Yen Doll From Microsoft Comes With Dev Tools, Or Opposite?
Microsoft Japan has been featuring Cloud-girl Claudia to grab the heart of anime-loving geeks. Their latest campaign offers the limited Claudia doll for everyone who purchases Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN, which price is 173,250 yen (US$2200). The doll is planned to be 15-20 centimeters(6-8 inches) heights, with serial number. The campaign will… Continue reading Buying A 173,250 Yen Doll From Microsoft Comes With Dev Tools, Or Opposite?
Google+ TV CM Featuring AKB48 Election
Do people oversea believe the AKB48 election, to decide which girls of the idol group should sing in front line of bunch of members, are more important than political election for some Japanese? Google Japan, who chose AKB48 as its promotional force last Deccember, featured Atsuko Maeda’s speech during the last election for TV commercial… Continue reading Google+ TV CM Featuring AKB48 Election
Japan’s Web News Week 22
This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Amazon Japan To Sell Data SIM For Tablet, First As A Foreign Company – The scoop by Nikkei. Japan Communication Denies Nikkei’s Story That Amazon Japan To Resell Their Data SIM.… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 22
Hip-hop Anti-Phishing Enlightenment Song By Japan Credit-card Association
Japan Credit-card Association released a hip-hop song teaches you what kind of the Internet phishing are aiming you. The song title is “Itsumo Kimi wo mamoritai kara”(’cause we always want to protect you.). Three mermaids tell you 5 points you need to be careful on the net. via Modern Syntax
Yahoo! Japan To Close Yahoo! Kukuru, Naver Matome Rip-off
Yahoo! Japan, the largest website in the country, who holds a lot of successful sub-services under its brand, announced today the termination of their Yahoo! Kururu, user-generated summary site. The service launched September 2011, is often called as “Yahoo!’s Naver Matome”, as the service seemed quite similar to the already-successful info-aggregation site Naver Matome. The… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan To Close Yahoo! Kukuru, Naver Matome Rip-off