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Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

Twitter Japan’s official twitter account tweeted to give an URL under their official twitter navigation site twinavi.jp. It looks like that this teaser page is for newly coming Japanese cellphone compliant mobile website for 3 major carriers, NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile. Months ago Twitter Japan announced that they would develop a special… Continue reading Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

A Japanese blogger @ueblog presented his 7-month-old daughter, who is enthralled by typing notebook keyboard, a specially programmed twitter client Rukotter in programming language Python with wxPython. Video is here, Her twitter account is @ruko_ueblog. The client is well considered for infants, runs on full screen when typing exceeds a certain number of letters, automatically… Continue reading 7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese

Mixi, Japan’s largest social network service, introduced a new feature around Mai-Miku(=My Mixi, my friends) management, called My List. Your new “My List” is completely private for you, no one can see who is on it. You may add other Mixi users by random browsing, or from recommended users list. Without letting them notice, you… Continue reading Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese

Cellphone To Check Your Golf Swing

Fujitsu announced that Hosei University and they developed a technology to sense your body’s movement during golf swing by an equipped cellphone on your waist. The application will be bundled on Fujitsu’s mobile phones for NTT Docomo, and Fujitsu group’s web company Nitfy Corporation is planning to host a network service to which users can… Continue reading Cellphone To Check Your Golf Swing

Japan’s First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way

A paper book named “Twitter Shousetsu – 140 ji no Monogatari”(Twitter Novels – 140 Letters Stories) is to be published at the beginning of next month, announced by one of ten professional authors, Mika Naitoh [J]. There will be over 100 very short stories in the book. According to her blog, the first Japanese book… Continue reading Japan’s First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way

Amazon Japan Starts “The Same Day” Delivery Service

Amazon Japan announced their new premium delivery option “Toujitsu Oisogi Bin”, which is not offered by US Amazon, the same day delivery. Of course, some restrictions are applied. To get the product in the same day, you need to see that the shipment option is selectable on the product page. Firstly, not all products are… Continue reading Amazon Japan Starts “The Same Day” Delivery Service

Softbank To Cap iPhone Bandwidth

Japan’s exclusive iPhone provider Softbank, the 3rd largest carrier, announced [J] that they will introduce bandwidth limit for heavy users of their data plan from December, to keep network quality and fairness of network usage. In case of using the Packet-Teigaku(fixed rate)-Full plan [J], which Japanese iPhone users usually depends on, if your monthly usage… Continue reading Softbank To Cap iPhone Bandwidth

The World Shortest URL Shortener Using Internationalized Domain Name

Yesterday I introduced a crazy 14 letters twitter clone and how much Japanese are obsessed with smallness. And today I am amazed again. A blogger Jamadam released an interesting URL shortening service, and that is the world shortest. [Update] @miyagawa pointed out that http://tinyarro.ws/ have been making the same shortest URL, though the generator URL… Continue reading The World Shortest URL Shortener Using Internationalized Domain Name