Koress Project [J] released an opensource hardware “Akiduki Pulse” [J], which links your pulsebeat and twitter to let your friends and the world know your heartbeat status. By 3 levels of your heartbeat, three different messages will be post on your twitter account. 30-60: bradycardia now 60-90: alive now 90-140: tachycardia now There is, eventually,… Continue reading Twitter Heartbeat Posting Device Akiduki-Pulse
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iPhone 3GS Purchase Livestreaming Girl in Tokyo
At a flagship shop of Softbank Mobile, Japanese reseller of iPhone, there are people began lining up for tomorrow morning, new iPhone 3GS. Ketsudan Potaufe, a web unit sends a live reporter girl to there and let her broadcast live report from there on ustream. [update] ustream.tv stopped its service. old link was: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/potaufe The… Continue reading iPhone 3GS Purchase Livestreaming Girl in Tokyo
Manga Avatar Candidate Goes For National Election
Fumiya Satoh, a manga artist who draws a boy detective story “Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo” which has been sold 80 million copies, who is also a director of culture of the Happiness Realization Party, had a press announcement of her running for coming national election of the house of representative with blotting out herself with… Continue reading Manga Avatar Candidate Goes For National Election
CyWorld Pulls Out From Japan
CyWorld Japan [J], a Japanese localized version of the most successful social networking service in Korea, CyWorld, announced its withdrawal from Japan in August 2009 [J]. According to the announcement, the direct cause of this shut-down is the operation failure of periodical site maintenance on May 26th. It is explained that the unstable errors after… Continue reading CyWorld Pulls Out From Japan
Democratic Party Opens Social Network For Tokyo Citizens
Japan’ opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) Tokyo branch has launched a new website “Tokyo Life”. Tokyo Life has two main sub-sites. One is “Tokyopedia” which is a wiki about topics around Tokyo metropolitan assembly and local administrative information. The tool used for the Wiki part is MediaWiki. It is said that the wiki editors are young… Continue reading Democratic Party Opens Social Network For Tokyo Citizens
Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed
As we reported a week ago, national newspaper Asahi Shimbun began a twitter experiment reporting soccer match by national team for the World Cup. The tweeted reports were well-received by web users, but some web people worried that the too frank and personal-sounding tweets may make the main readers of the newspaper, elders, upset. Then… Continue reading Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed
Ask.jp Shuts Down Its Japanese Search Engine
Ask Dot JP(ask.jp) announced [J] the end of its search engine service in Japan, to restructure their business operation. On 25th of this month, June 2009, web search, blog search, product search and category search will be closed. They had already closed down their movie and image search last month. The announcement says that some… Continue reading Ask.jp Shuts Down Its Japanese Search Engine
ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours
Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began twitter and quickly getting thousands of followers in hours today. His first post [J] was “I started twitter. I’m thinking what to eat for lunch”. Later he reported he had eaten squid… Continue reading ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours
Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion
As a part of their blue-ray disc recorder promotion, Sony gives away Windows/Mac screen saver on their site. After pressing “download” button, you have to scroll down the terms of use to the end to make the second download buttons enabled. Association with the recorder having an ability to find programmes by user-registered keywords and… Continue reading Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion
Two Twitter Business Card Generators
From Japan, where business cards (Meishi) are salarymen‘s alter ego and represents an important part of tao of business, two twitter related business card services are accidentally released in two consecutive days. The first one, Meishitter by @feiq makes a miniature-sized of your twitter home in name card style. Released on 31th of May. The… Continue reading Two Twitter Business Card Generators