Whilst US Yahoo! dumps their free web hosting service Geocities with huge number of pages painfully, semi-independent and more successful sibling Yahoo! Japan also decides and announces their a bit old-fashioned service, Yahoo! Merumaga next April. Merumaga is abbreviation of “Mail Magazine”, which means email newsletter in Japan (the word “Nyu-su Reta-“=”newsletter” is also understandable… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan To Shut Down Email Newsletter Service
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Buddhist Sutra Chanting Distribution On Cellphone
Ryoho-ji Temple [J], located at west suburb of Tokyo, is known on the web as its “Moe“-based proselytization. This time the chief priest Nakazato, a person of ideas, introduced new mobile movie service. After purchasing a pre-paid card, user can read QR-code on its back and access to the movie on which Nakazato chanting Buddhist… Continue reading Buddhist Sutra Chanting Distribution On Cellphone
Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
Following to one of the Big 3 social networking service Mixi’s clone Mixi Voice, which made Evan Williams “unpleasant”, another successful, probably now most vital among three, social networking Gree enters into microblog service (registration required for all Gree pages besides the top login page). As once defeated a battle against Mixi on PC web,… Continue reading Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing those drawings as new letters is, though Chinese letters were made from drawings thousands years ago, not acceptable for all people, some says it is… Continue reading Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
Air Sampai – Virtual Kyoto Temple Experience
Before we introduced Air Yakiniku (Air BBQ), now it is holier, Air Sampai (Air Worship) to a famous Kiyomizu Temple at ancient capital Kyoto. Bilingual (Japanese with English subtext) Flash site offers you a virtual tour to and around Kiyomizu-Dera (temple) anytime from anywhere around the world. The narrator guides you necessary religious rituals, such… Continue reading Air Sampai – Virtual Kyoto Temple Experience
Kanojo Camera – iPhone Memorial Photo Taker With Virtual Girls
A Japanese company A2c Co, Ltd. released a new iPhone application which enables you to take pictures with 5 virtual girls. “Kanojo Camera” (“kanojo” means girlfriend). You may choose from 5 different girls, each of who has more than 3 costumes, who can also change facial expressions. You can scale, move, rotate the girls to… Continue reading Kanojo Camera – iPhone Memorial Photo Taker With Virtual Girls
Japan Public TV NHK Intensely Promotes Twitter
Following to Biz Stone’s first Tokyo visit for media interviews and Tweetup event, media is reporting a lot about Twitter in Japan now. Public, and the biggest TV station NHK broadcasts about Twitters three time in two days, each of them are totally made differently. As a public TV, NHK usually does not show specific… Continue reading Japan Public TV NHK Intensely Promotes Twitter
Amazon US Begins Same Day Delivery A Fortnight After Japan
When I reported Amazon Japan’s Same Day Delivery at the beginning of this month, I thought it would only be possible in a small dense country like Japan. I was wrong. Amazon US announced its same day service on October 15th in the following 7 cities, New York City – Order as late as 10… Continue reading Amazon US Begins Same Day Delivery A Fortnight After Japan
Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off
As implied by teaser page, Twitter Japan has launched an official Japanese cellphone site http://twtr.jp. Here is the teaser page changed to a guide page which has both cellphone site URL and QR Code. The current mobile site http://m.twitter.com/, which is not really usable (it did not work with many of Japanese phone browsers) for… Continue reading Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off
Twitter Launches Video Service From Japan
Twitvideo, a new video tweeting service working with Twitter, was released on October 5th 2009 by DG Mobile Inc., a subsidiary of Digital Garage Inc., a Japanese Twitter partner which invested in Twitter and has been running Twitter Japan’s localization and promotion since January 2008. Using the site, Japanese twitter users can post and share… Continue reading Twitter Launches Video Service From Japan