Sandwich chain-store Subway Japan [J] opened a new shop “Subway Yasai(=vegetable) Lab Maru Building Store” at very central Tokyo, in Marunouchi Building which locates just in front of Tokyo station. What makes the shop so unique is that there is a vegetable factory set inside the shop and it provides fresh lettuces for sandwich. Pesticide-free… Continue reading Subway Japan’s World-First In-Shop Lettuce Factory
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Game To Defeat the Twitter’s Fail Whale
“Kujira-san no Game”(Whale Game) [J] is a tiny Flash shooting game, which takes Twitter and its notorious Failing Whale as motifs, made by a Kansai-based game hobbyist group Daiojyo [J]. You may be requires to unlock your browser’s pop-up blocker. Control your bird by mouse, and shoot by left-click. There will be a power-up item… Continue reading Game To Defeat the Twitter’s Fail Whale
Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks
Jsdo.it is a new web developers’ community on which HTML5/JavaScript/CSS programmers can play, share and collaborate with others. On the site, user can edit HTML/JavaScript/CSS on the left pane, and run them on the right pane. Your code are publicized with your designating license, and others can “fork” it and make his/her branched version. Popular… Continue reading Jsdo.it – Shared HTML5/JavaScript Playground For Geeks
Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
Softbank Group’s Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (means “Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery”), which we reported last December, lets people send parcels only by e-mail address, i.e. without knowing the recipients’ real address, now start supporting emerging messaging endpoint, Twitter. When a sender shows their intention to send a package to another Twitter user, this service asks to the… Continue reading Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Gree Employee Got Support 90% of Smartphone Purchase Cost Tweetmeme Adds Japanese Localization [En] – awful Japanese though Fujitsu-Toshiba Cellphone Alliance Officially Acknowledged Writers and editors jointly to release an e-book without publisher and dealer. Sakura Internet To Open Stadium Sized Data… Continue reading June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Tweegle – You Look Googling From Your Boss, But Using Twitter Actually
A new web service Tweegle [J] by Usagifrask Co., Ltd. [J] looks very similar with Google Search, but it is a web-based Twitter client. When first searching tweeting, you are asked to give permission by Twitter OAuth. Then, your timeline is shown in Google’s search results page format. Your followings/followers pages are like Google Image… Continue reading Tweegle – You Look Googling From Your Boss, But Using Twitter Actually
Twitter Whale – Japanese Interpretation
The original is here by @emeruzwei @seagetch [Update] The drawing was done by another person. The link to the image is fixed, too. [Update 2010-07-20] Greasemonkey script to replace the real Fail Whale to this image for Firefox/Opera/Chrome by Smellman
Mobile Tweeting Yoga On Japanese Magazine
Somehow Twitter catches on so much in Japan. Like Japanese tweets recorded on national team soccer game on the World Cup 2010 4 days ago. Following the majority is one of the national character where social accordance is valued. Then, weird things are happening by people who are not necessary to get on the bandwagon.… Continue reading Mobile Tweeting Yoga On Japanese Magazine
Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter
Japan’s upper house election campaign period began on 24th June. Internet updates during election has been banned in Japan. It was a discussion to legalize blog updates (but not Twitter, funny how they tried to draw line between them) recently, but it could not make this time in time. According to J-Cast [J], incumbent upper… Continue reading Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter
June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
First half 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. Ustream Only Women Pro Wrestling Starts Softbank’s Viewn Starts With Server Trouble. Masayoshi Son Tweets They Are Adding 10 Times More Servers Viewn Stops, Decupling Servers Failed, Son… Continue reading June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)