March news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Napster Japan To End Its Service At The End Of May Softbank Telecom Sells 1,200 iPhone 3GS To Uniqlo Korean BBS gathers 100,000 users for attacking 2 channel to protest Olympic figure skate critics on… Continue reading March 2010 Japan-IT Links
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Less Talk, More Music. Automatic Aircheck Radio Sanyo Xacti Sound Recorder
Sanyo’s new portable FM/AM radio recorder ICR-XRS120MF [J] lets you record music. By detecting different frequency between DJ talk and songs, you may just collect music from radio wave into few giga-bytes SD card. The weight of the radio is 66g, which is the world lightest as an IC recorder with AM/FM tuner. Unfortunately, DJ… Continue reading Less Talk, More Music. Automatic Aircheck Radio Sanyo Xacti Sound Recorder
Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1
Two Japanese web affiliate service provider(ASP) LinkShare Japan and Traffic Gate announced [J] to unite on May 1st, 2010. They will be the largest ASP in Japan. Behind LinkShare Japan, there is a parent company MITSUI & CO.,LTD., aka Mitsui Bussan, zaibatsu-type sogo shosha (general trading companies) who jointly established LinkShare Japan with US LinkShare.… Continue reading Two Big Japanese Affiliate Service Providers To Merge To Japan No.1
Utweet Makes Stylish Movie With Your Tweets
A Japan based apparel chain store Uniqlo opened a new Flash site which let you create a Flash movie featuring your tweets and Twitter icons. You can set your Twitter account name or any keyword. When running with a Twitter ID, you will also get the red and white modified icon. Uniqlo is known by… Continue reading Utweet Makes Stylish Movie With Your Tweets
New Nikkei’s “Online Newspaper” Bans Deeplinks
Nikkei Web-kan [J], a new online news media started last month by Nikkei, one of the most influential industrial newspaper in Japan, turned out to claim possible damage compensation on its link policy page [J] to people who link individual news page, Slashdot Japan [J] reported. The policy also requires you advanced consent if you… Continue reading New Nikkei’s “Online Newspaper” Bans Deeplinks
Japanese April Fools’ Day Is 3D! 3D! 3D!
Blame Avatar’s hit on screen. Many of Japanese big portal showed great originality on April Fools’ Day. Half a day ahead to 3D services launch in USA. The No.1 Yahoo! Japan announced their migration to 3D top page on Microsoft Silverlight technology. No.4 portal (by visitors, according to the NetRatings 2007 research [J]) Nifty No.… Continue reading Japanese April Fools’ Day Is 3D! 3D! 3D!
TV Agony Aunt Based On Popular Female Online Forum Starts
Hatsugen Komachi, another huge anonymous online forum, popular to women, run by the world largest newspaper company Yomiuri Shimbun, will become a satellite TV program “Komachi TV” in advice-column-on-television style since April 2nd. # “Komachi” is a synonym for beautiful women in Japanese, which came from 9th century poet Ono no Komachi. In the 30… Continue reading TV Agony Aunt Based On Popular Female Online Forum Starts
Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
Nikkei reported [J, subscription required] that Yahoo! Japan and Taobao are discussing to interconnect their shopping services between Japan and China in summer. Yahoo! Japan holds Yahoo! Shopping, No.2 online shopping service after Rakuten Ichiba. Taobao is China’s largest shopping site in Alibaba group. Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba are related via the common investor Softbank.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan And Taobao To Connect Their Shopping Networks This Summer
All Major Commercial TV Broadcasters And Two Biggest Ads Agencies Shake Hands For Yahoo! Japan Streaming Video Site
Yahoo! Japan announced [J] that their last year acquiring video streaming service Gyao [J] got investment from TV Asahi Corporation(TV Asahi), Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc.(TBS), TV TOKYO Corporation(TV Tokyo), Dentsu Inc. and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc. Yahoo! Gyao already was invested by Nippon Television Network Corporation(Nippon TV) and Fuji Television Network, Inc.(Fuji TV),… Continue reading All Major Commercial TV Broadcasters And Two Biggest Ads Agencies Shake Hands For Yahoo! Japan Streaming Video Site
Twitter Following Puyo Puyo
A Tokyo Twitter User @TeeeeKee plays on Twitter Following panel by displaying puzzle game Puyo Puyo. Check it out it is amazing. [Update] Accounts were suspended, and the original developer made a page how it was displayed. [Update] 37 users seem to be suspended by official.