Google is airing a commercial of its Android reference handset Galaxy Nexus, with AKB48, who is the top girls idol group, who also cooperates on Google+ promotion in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZW2R9fPp-o The commercial song is sung by the selected members of AKB48 for Google+, called “Gugutasu Senbatsu”(Gugu = abbrev of Google, tasu=to add, senbatsu=selection) Gugutasu is… Continue reading Google Japan Runs AKB48 Commercial For Galaxy Nexus, Which Is Almost Free On Shop
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Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person
Tokyo District Court issued a decision of provisional disposition on March 19 for Google to remove specific search results on its suggested keywords feature around a name of a male who sued Google that the search results infringed his privacy, according to the layer of him, Mainichi reported [J] ([update 2012-03-27] Mainichi English posted the… Continue reading Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person
Japan’s Web News Week 12
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. Fujitsu And Nagoya Univ Develops A Technlogy Detects If You Are Being Deceived By Your Voice A Man Made 250 Banknotes To Slanderous Leaflets Arrested Japanese Cellphone Earthquake Alert Arranged In… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 12
Experiment: Can You Identify Twitter Users In Tokyo?
A Japanese column media Omocoro [J] ran an interesting test in Shibuya, one of the most crowded area in Tokyo. A writer Sebuyama tries to find a random person whose tweets show he/she is in Shibuya. All 3 target were picked up from search by “Shibuya nau(=now in Shibuya)” on Twitter, which sometimes could be… Continue reading Experiment: Can You Identify Twitter Users In Tokyo?
Gree Ties Up With Dentsu On Global Promotion
Gree announced today [J] that it and Dentsu, Japan’s advertising agency giant, agreed on business cooperation around Gree’s global business. The business partnership includes the worldwide promotion of Gree social networking service, acquiring of contents and start-up investment.
Mixi And DeNA Launches Social Commerce Platform Mixi Mall
Mixi and DeNA announced today that they launch a new social commerce service Mixi Mall As you might know, the two of Japan’s top three social networking services, Mixi and Mobage are run by these two companies. Mixi is the counterpart of Facebook in Japan, Mobage is like Zynga having its own social networking. Whilst… Continue reading Mixi And DeNA Launches Social Commerce Platform Mixi Mall
Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords
Japan’s largest web service Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that its PC version top page, the most accessed page in Japan, starts offering the top three trending keywords from Twitter, named with “Wadai Nau”(nau=now, current topics) As you see, the place the keywords showed is just under the top news box (from Yahoo! News), the prime… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Top Page Now Shows Twitter’s Top 3 Trending Keywords
Japan’s Web News Week 11
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. Japanese French Talkbook Features All Sex-related Words http://twitpic.com/8vpr5e A Japanese Woman Who’s Claim Possibly Let Amazon Japan Ban Pedophile Comic Magazine, Turned Out To Be A Rival Exporter – 2-channelers tracked… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 11
Japan’s Web News Week 10
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. Tokyo Metropolitan Police To Begin Twitter For Disaster-Releaf Planned In 2012 Kanazawa College of Art Enrollment and Graduate by the same students. via @U2game_Sawagi Iine Manga With Mecha-Zuckerburg – The title… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 10
Finnish Embassy Runs Personified Finland Illustration Contest On Twitter
Finish embassy in Japan, who recently runs a Twitter account(@FinEmbTokyo) with folksy tweets and getting popular by showing deep understandings to Japanese subcultures. On February, they introduced to its followers Suomi-neito, a personified Finnish land, and soon later by getting feedback, began an official Suomi-neito illustration contest. On March 1 2012, Finnish embassy awarded a… Continue reading Finnish Embassy Runs Personified Finland Illustration Contest On Twitter