Dentsu, Japanese advertising colossus, released a new Android client with D2 Communications and Bijutsu Shuppan Networks Co., Ltd. The new client Decotter lets you tweet not only 140 characters text but also Deco Sozai(=decoration materials), colourful images and character letters. FYI, those “deco moji” are not emoji, which is now part of Unicode. With maximum… Continue reading Dentsu Releases Android Decorational Twitter Client Decotter
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Sells His Road To Prison Live
Takafumi Horie, ex-Livedoor CEO, who had challenged several Japanese traditional companies and thought as one of Japanese IT-industry icon, who recently got rejected his appeal of innocent by supreme court, unveiled on his personal blog that the day of imprisonment is today, around 13:00 June 20, 2011 [J]. He is planned to be in jail… Continue reading ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Sells His Road To Prison Live
Attempted Rapist Arrested By Browsing His Mixi Profile On The Victim’s Cellphone
Sankei reports [J] that Kanagawa prefectural police arrested a 19 yo university student in Yokohama on June 16 for attempted rape. The boy raided a flat of 20 years old victim, an university student, through an non-locked front door around 21:30. Just before waking her up to threat, he used the victim’s cellphone, logged-on Mixi… Continue reading Attempted Rapist Arrested By Browsing His Mixi Profile On The Victim’s Cellphone
Toyota Raves In Mad Social Campaign, Save The Car (And Us)!
Toyota Social App Award – Save The Car (Japanese/Chinese) is a social application contest run by the world largest automaker Toyota. The social applications applied are expected to deliver fun and job of car to people. To promote the contest, Toyota prepared an official cheering song and its choreography. They lined up about 30 of… Continue reading Toyota Raves In Mad Social Campaign, Save The Car (And Us)!
Japonizer – Japanese Traditional Background Image Generator
Japonizer is an web generator for background image, which generates images of traditional Japanese patterns. You choose one out of around 30 provided traditional patterns, set a size and change colours if you want. You may download and use it for your blog, twitter or so. The service is a part of Wanokoto.net [J], a… Continue reading Japonizer – Japanese Traditional Background Image Generator
Facebook Opens The World’s First Official Navigation Site For Japan
When Japanese are asked why Facebook, the world-level phenomenon, has not taken off in Japan yet, many answer that its user interface is hard to understand, which is strange because the UI did not keep away people in many other countries. There might be some cultural issues which make it difficult to attract Japanese. An… Continue reading Facebook Opens The World’s First Official Navigation Site For Japan
Povie – Purikura For Movie, Knows Your “Kawaii” Points To Decorate
Povie by a Japanese design unit Shikake is a movie decoration service in Japanese popular “purikura” (wikipedia) style. The service is bilingual, English and Japanese. On regular purikura, you place letters, characters and shapes over your snapshot with buttons/tablet/touch panel. However, Povie will detect your motion and decorate it automatically with “Kawaii Engine”(kawaii = cute).… Continue reading Povie – Purikura For Movie, Knows Your “Kawaii” Points To Decorate
Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller
Nico Nico Douga, Japanese popular video sharing service, released a feature phone app Nico Nico Remocon(=remote controller) [J] for Docomo feature phone. The app makes your cellphone be a controller of your playing movie on Nico Nico Douga on your PC. The app is available as a free option for premium member (over million users… Continue reading Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller
June 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Early part of June news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Yahoo! Loco Begins IIJ Starts “Amazon S3 Level” Cloud Strage Service Inter-Carrier SMS Announced By Docomo Retty – Social Restaurant Recommendation Service The People’s Liberation Army of China… Continue reading June 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!
Angry Jobs is an Android game developed by Japanese Studio Hitori (“hitori” in Japanese means “one man”), who is also selling an iPad Twitter Client TwitRocker. In the game, you play a guy who is wearing black turtleneck and blue jeans to shoot falling green Androids with shuriken, a Japanese ninja flying dagger. Swiping your… Continue reading Angry Jobs – Throw Ninja Stars To Beat Off Androids!