(From Part 1) Second of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Continued to Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Retired Lawmaker, Popular Twitter User 81-years-old Koichi Hamada Arrested by breach-of-trust. He(@555hamako) has not tweeted much few days before the arrest. Probably the first arrested Japanese… Continue reading August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
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Kyoto Prefecture Office Introduces 5 Customer Dummies To Foster “A Tense Feeling”
A new lifehack appeared from Japan’s old capital city Kyoto, NHK reported . Kyoto prefecture office PR section set 5 upper-body mannequins on their desk to face to staff last month. The idea of these bodies comes from “Persona” method, by which local government workers can imagine their customers to serve. Each dummy is named,… Continue reading Kyoto Prefecture Office Introduces 5 Customer Dummies To Foster “A Tense Feeling”
Twitter Following List PuyoPuyo Animation
Recently Mashable reported that a twitter user @guygo’s bird on his following list. That one is a static picture, but there was an animation one by a Japanese user @tkpuyop in this March. Unfortunately, the account was suspended quickly but he recorded how it worked. @guygo’s account is still kept on even after known by… Continue reading Twitter Following List PuyoPuyo Animation
Softbank Sends 6 Walking WiFi Ninja To Comiket To Cover Up Cellphone Demand
The 78th Comiket(Comic Market), the world’s largest self-published comic book fair, was held again this summer in Tokyo bay side. This summer, there were 35,000 groups had booths and 560,000 people visited the fair for 3 days. As such many people gather in a huge but single conference hall, logistics are always problem. Convenience stores… Continue reading Softbank Sends 6 Walking WiFi Ninja To Comiket To Cover Up Cellphone Demand
Kabuki Web – English Website For Foreign Kabuki Fan
Kabuki is a Japanese traditional form of theater performed by all male cast, starting Edo feudal period. (Wikipedia) Shochiku, a Japanese company for movie and kabuki, opens their kabuki website in English. Official Kabuki Website with information on upcoming plays and ticket booking in English. It includes introductory notes for Kabuki beginners on such topics… Continue reading Kabuki Web – English Website For Foreign Kabuki Fan
Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant
Following to the 20 million users social gaming networks Gree and DeNA’s hiring competition with over $20,000 rewards for engineers beginning 4 days ago, Dwango [J] (Asiajin), who has much longer history on Japanese cellphone game, also known by their Japanese YouTube counter movie community Nico Nico Douga [J] (Asiajin), announced their new rewards plan… Continue reading Dwango Enters Engineer Hiring Race With OSS Community Grant
College Girl Manga Blog On Server Management
Koakuma Joshidaisei no Server Engineer Diary(Little-devil Server Engineer College Girl) is a Japanese blog by a female college student Aico who works as a part-time on server management at Tokyo-based Directorz Inc [J]. SMTP Auth story What is the “Root Servers”? The blog was picked up by GoTheDistance blog and got good buzz on Japanese… Continue reading College Girl Manga Blog On Server Management
Gree And DeNA Competition Heats Up: Both Announce Cash Rewards To New Employees
DeNA, who runs Mobage Town, one of Japan’s most successful social networks, sparked a hiring war yesterday to post their new incentive reward [J]. On the announcement, DeNA tells they will pay extra 2 million yen($23,400) besides annual salary to newly hired engineers who directly applied via their website and is approved between August 15th… Continue reading Gree And DeNA Competition Heats Up: Both Announce Cash Rewards To New Employees
Twitter Bug Allows You Long Long Tweet (on browser)
[Update] The bug seems to be fixed and now Mashable and TechCrunch reported it (though they could not find the @zakuro563’s first tweet but someone’s long tweet at 3 hours later). Some Japanese Twitter users found a Twitter bug around 140-letters limitation Saturday night (local time. JST). My test reproduced it like this. By the… Continue reading Twitter Bug Allows You Long Long Tweet (on browser)
Twitter Time Signal Bot To Draw Lines On Your Timeline
@kiti_tori (which means “cutting off” in Japanese) is a super simple Twitter bot gives you only one function, drawing time signal on your timeline, made by @okihuran, @icconico and @d3gk. By following this, when you scroll down your Twitter time line, you can easily recognize how old tweets you are seeing back without calculating small… Continue reading Twitter Time Signal Bot To Draw Lines On Your Timeline