Nintendo [J] started Twitter this morning at 9:08 a.m., June 6th (Japan Standard Time). There were two tweets pointing today’s releases on their website, E3 2011 conference information notice [J] and a bug info of a race game Ridge Racer 3D [J] The bio section tells “We are going to give notifications and website updates… Continue reading Nintendo Begins Twitter
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May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Continued from (Part 2). Last part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. 80’s Videogame Hero Master Takahashi(Takahashi Meijin) Quits Hudson. On June 1st, it turned out that his next work is for game info videostream company Gacha Communications photo ©… Continue reading May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Docomo Opens Official Facebook Page
Docomo, Japan’s No.1 cellphone carrier, has opened an official Facebook page today. “New Smartphone Review” page introduces their latest 9 smartphones and asked users to comment. “Message Card” corner lets you send a Docomodake message card to your Facebook friends. Docomodake is a mashroom character of Docomo. No.2 KDDI au announced its alliance with Facebook… Continue reading Docomo Opens Official Facebook Page
NHK To Start Internet Simalcast Radio
AV Watch reports [J] that NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is going to broadcast its three radio channels, Radio1/2 and NHK FM, over the internet from September 1st. Those simulcast channel will be listened on website on PC. For Smartphone(Android/iPhone), apps will be released after October 1st. Some private radio stations have already been airing their program… Continue reading NHK To Start Internet Simalcast Radio
Crowsnest – Twitter Newsreader Service In English And Japanese
Rmake launched Crowsnest as a Beta service. When logging in by Twitter authentication, you will see latest news on tweets under several several tabs. Tabs are like your regular “timeline”, popular links from tweets by people you are “following”, Yours tweets, Your following marked, some auto-categorized news of IT, live videos, images and blogs. You… Continue reading Crowsnest – Twitter Newsreader Service In English And Japanese
KDDI Develops A Sysytem To Convert Video/Photos Into Comic-Style Album
KDDI R&D Labs announced today that they developed a new system which can generate naturally arranged photo album in comic-style sequence of frames from video and photos. Here is an example of the generated album from an wedding photos. According to the release [J, pdf], it is humdrum to line up the same shaped photos.… Continue reading KDDI Develops A Sysytem To Convert Video/Photos Into Comic-Style Album
Nicofarre – Nico Nico Douga To Reincarnate Legendary Roppongi Disco
Nico Nico Douga, Japanese online movie sharing service which differentiates itself against YouTube with comments overlay-display, announced some news [J] at its first user conference in oversea, Taipei, Taiwan [zh]. One of the news is that Nico Nico Douga is planning to open a nightclub with 5 huge LED wallscreens with projecting its movies and… Continue reading Nicofarre – Nico Nico Douga To Reincarnate Legendary Roppongi Disco
May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. KDDI introduces the Android app on which a nice-looking guy tells you what the date it is. All About Japan launches a fashion and… Continue reading May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
DeNA(Mobage) Founder Tomoko Namba To Step Down CEO, COO Isao Moriyasu To Take Presidency
DeNA has just announced [J] that the board had decided to replace the head of the company after planned ordinary general meeting of shareholders on June 25th. [Update] DeNA issued English release, too. I did not need to translate them. Thank you for a comment, Tomo. Tomoko Namba, who founded DeNA in March 1999 and… Continue reading DeNA(Mobage) Founder Tomoko Namba To Step Down CEO, COO Isao Moriyasu To Take Presidency
CSS-Only (=No Flash/Javascript) Browser Action Game
A Japanese blogger ndruger made a single-page browser action game only using the latest CSS. You need to catch 101 cows by clicking. Only the latest versions of Chrome/Safari can run this game. Firefox/IE are not supported.