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Reroom.jp – Category Photo Sharing Service For Your Interior Designs

Last month we introduced a new Japan-based bilingual web service for sharing contents of your bag InMyBag. This month we let you know the similar concept web service Reroom.jp, which lets you share the part of your private life, your room. This service does not have an English menu, but browsing should not be so… Continue reading Reroom.jp – Category Photo Sharing Service For Your Interior Designs

Yep, Sony Killed Casette Walkman, Sharp Killed PC

Whilst Apple reported to kill the CD in U.S., there are two big Japanese companies turned out to kill other legacy products. Last Cassette Walkman SankeiBiz reported [J] that Sony said on 22nd that they had finished domestic shipment of cassette tape Walkman at the end of April 2010. The last 5 models (WM-EX651, WM-GX410,… Continue reading Yep, Sony Killed Casette Walkman, Sharp Killed PC

SeatNext – Create Meetup Record With Twitter Icons

SeatNext is a Japanese web service for people who attended a gathering to make a seating chart with Twitter icons, developed by a Niigata-based programmer civic [J](@civic). You may add a Twitter icon one by one, or as a space-separated-list. Then you layout icons as the attendees seated. You can also add text labels for… Continue reading SeatNext – Create Meetup Record With Twitter Icons

QR Code Blog – Written Only In QR Code

QR Code seems getting popularity in West because of smartphone. There are a lot of interesting ad campaigns utilizing QR Code recently in English. There was also a news that Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl supported QR code generation, then Bit.ly followed the trend this week. Some of you might know that QR Code marketing… Continue reading QR Code Blog – Written Only In QR Code

NHK Website Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Biz Stone And Jun Murai Interviews

NHK Online, Japan’s public broadcasting organization makes a special website about its 15 years internet activities. The NHK Online History, a Flash contents, is quite interesting as it covers Japanese and the world Internet news and trend for last 20 years. Here is the video version in English. The site also has “special interviews” of… Continue reading NHK Website Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Biz Stone And Jun Murai Interviews

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Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users

Japan is known as one of the most difficult countries for Facebook. However, there has been sudden Facebook buzz happening in Japanese websphere now for about a week. Tokyo-based social media consultant company Looops Communications counted that there were over 11.7% Japanese Facebook users increase observed in 11 days last week. According to them, the… Continue reading Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users

Asiajin Meetup Tokyo #2 Signup

Venue is now fixed at Akihabara. We will have the second Tokyo meetup this Saturday after two years rest. Please check the following link to join the meetup. http://asiajin.doorkeeper.jp/ Or you may apply via e-mail by scanning this QR-Code and send to the gotten e-mail address. [Update] We have sent an e-ticket to all who… Continue reading Asiajin Meetup Tokyo #2 Signup

Answer For What is PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！ On Twitter Trending Topics

The strange phrase “PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！” appeared on the Twitter Trending Topic sometime early morning in UTS October 4th. (morning to night in Japan Standard Time) That phrase itself is mix of English and Japanese, which means …PROJECTION CLOCK] for 2 persons”! It is a part of full sentence in a marketing campaign run by Nifty,… Continue reading Answer For What is PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！ On Twitter Trending Topics