The biggest PHP community conference in Japan, PHP Conference 2008 was held on 21th July2008 (Sea Day, national holiday) at Kamata, Tokyo. There were 500 PHP engineers atendees. Keynote began with Rui HIROKAWA, Japan PHP users group, who has been contributing a lot for PHP multibyte handling. He talked mainly about the PHP updates on… Continue reading PHP Conference 2008 report
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I Love Maker
I Love Maker (English version) is a new Flash based generator for “I ♥ NY” style logo. You can customize texts, texts-size and mark (heart or others). For various users, different sizes are provided for typical cellularphone background image size (can be set by using QR Code), Mixi profile image size and three other sizes.… Continue reading I Love Maker
Mixi testing their “Twitter”
Japan’s behemoth social network service Mixi has launched its microblogging service “Mixi Echo” for a limited time. The page introducing the new twitter-like one-line comment service is featured on the “information from Mixi” section. The guide page, says that this service is for limited time only until September 1st. If you turn on the Mixi… Continue reading Mixi testing their “Twitter”
Digital Garage gives 30% of Technorati Japan to Technorati US
Technorati Japan, established by Digital Garage(DG) in January 2005, is now shared with Technorati, Inc.. DG announced that they sold issued new shares which becomes 30% of the Technorati Japan
Mixi starts “Celebrity Account”
Japan’s largest social network Mixi started a specialized user accounts limited for TV-talents/musicians on July 28th 2008. Mixi has a system limitation on your number of friends “Mai Miku”(My Mixi), 1,000 friends at most, however, with this “official account”, which Mixi ascertains the account is owned by the celebrity herself/himself/themselves (=not fake), that celebrity account… Continue reading Mixi starts “Celebrity Account”
Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality
Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc. announced a new entertainment software title using augmented reality technology named “Dennoh Figure ARis“(Cyber Figure Alice) which will be on sale this autumn (2008). The package will come with two cyber-cubes and two cyber-sticks. You set up your webcam, and by putting the cyber-cube on your desk, a cyber-maid is displayed… Continue reading Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality
Facebook will possibly fail in Japan
Last month I was asked some comments on how Facebook will do in Japanese market by other media. Unfortunately my comments were not taken so I post my answers here. What is the biggest obstacle for Facebook in Japan? The biggest problem is lack of Japanese applications. I agree that Facebook third-party applications are a… Continue reading Facebook will possibly fail in Japan
Japanese “MAD movies” movement with Niconico/Idolmaster
Idolm@ster(Idol-master, abbrev. Aimasu in Japanese) is originally an arcade network game, then became a XBox360 game which is sold only in Japan. You will be a producer of a virtual 3D girl band and train them to be popular singers (kind of “Sim People” with a goal?). The game itself is not a big seller,… Continue reading Japanese “MAD movies” movement with Niconico/Idolmaster
iPhone Abacus, old wine in a new bottle
Our iPong article was referred to from all over the globe, and that made us realize how hot a topic the iPhone and its application development is. So, today I introduce another iPhone (non-authorized) app by a Japanese developer, the iPhone Abacus. Sorry for my ignorance, I do not know to what extent abaci are… Continue reading iPhone Abacus, old wine in a new bottle
Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones
iPhone 3G provided by Softbank on coming 11th July will be the first iPhone in Japan. Since Jobs’ announcement, there are bunch of Japanese medias and blogs have been discussing if iPhone 3G is worth buying. To clarify how iPhone and the latest Japanese cellphones spec are different, Asiajin called for comments on what functionalities… Continue reading Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones