Mainland China’s 2nd largest social game maker Rekoo[C] launched a flash-based social game on Japan’s largest social network service Mixi[J], which earned more than two million users in less than two months since the launch, and it’s ranked the 1st in the number of Mixi app users. The game is called Sunshine Ranch (click here… Continue reading Sunshine Ranch: More Than 2M Japanese Users Join China-made Flash Game In 2 Months
Author: Masaru IKEDA
Quadlingual Midnight Weather Show Broadcasts Live Images Of Orionids
On the 24-hour Internet video broadcast channel brought to you by the world’s largest meteorological information service company Weathernews, a quadlingual weather news show was launched this month, which is aired from 1am to 3am everyday excluding Monday, Japan Time. (Refer to this article for more about the video channel) Korean weathergirl Lee Jee-youn (李芝妍,… Continue reading Quadlingual Midnight Weather Show Broadcasts Live Images Of Orionids
Photo Speak: Let Your Favorite Portrait Speak And Blink
Motion Portrait, a tech spin-out of Sony Computer Science Laboratories(CSL) and now a subsidiary of So-Net Entertainment, introduced an iPhone app that allows you to animate your favorite picture and let it blink and speak anything you want, Photo Speak today. Now it’s available at AppStore for JPY350. The app uses the company’s state-of-the-art technology… Continue reading Photo Speak: Let Your Favorite Portrait Speak And Blink
140Trans: Now It’s So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Tokyo-based start-up Anydoor started a translation service using Twitter on Tuesday. It’s named 140 Trans. When you post a tweet having attributes of an original language and a target language of your translation request, the service’s participating translators will give you back a translation result on Twitter. The service can handle 140 character long messages,… Continue reading 140Trans: Now It’s So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Good Ideas Salon Tokyo: Explore Perspectives On Pure Living With Japanese Tech
On Tuesday, NYC’s SOHO-headquartered blog network on researching global trends and insights PSFK hosted the first Good Ideas Salon conference in Tokyo. More than 90 people came together to hear the panel discussions with innovation experts and pure living evangelists from Tokyo and the world. Peter Rojas (founder of gdgt, Engadget and Gizmodo), Marc Alt… Continue reading Good Ideas Salon Tokyo: Explore Perspectives On Pure Living With Japanese Tech
Google Puts Big Billboard Ad At Shinkansen Station To Promote Enterprise Use
Google started a promotion campaign that encourages corporate users to switch their BI (business intelligence) tool platform to Google Apps, which is called Go Google[J]. Go Google is the worldwide campaign, and the company displays a billboard ad at a location for each one of major cities around the world. Here in Japan, a 6.6… Continue reading Google Puts Big Billboard Ad At Shinkansen Station To Promote Enterprise Use
Book Retailing Now Starts Digital Street Solicitation
On Monday, Kyoto-based catalog and mail-order clothing retail giant Nissen[J] launched a new promotion business using a digital signage display in partnership with the country’s second largest wholesaler in book and magazine distribution Nippan which has a nationwide dealership of 12,000 book retailers. Nissen will put the displays at the storefronts of 50 selected bookstores… Continue reading Book Retailing Now Starts Digital Street Solicitation
Enabling Speech-To-Text YouTube Videos Enhances Business Potential
On Wednesday, Tokyo-based tech start-up in media rep service and speech recognition technology development Catalog just released the closed alpha version of the brand new service that enables speech-recognize what is spoken in a movie on the video sharing services such as YouTube and Nico Nico Douga[J]. In this release, the first 1,000 applicants can… Continue reading Enabling Speech-To-Text YouTube Videos Enhances Business Potential
30min. Fundraises USD275,000 To Go Next Round
Japan’s best-known LBS (location-based service) app 30min.[J] (pronounced “san-zero minutes”) allocated new shares to Mitsui Ventures (MVC), and Mr. Yohei Nishikubo joined the company as the managing director today. Mr. Nishikubo is a venture partner of MVC and formerly served as the president of search ad agency and SEO (search engine optimization) consultancy J Listing[J].… Continue reading 30min. Fundraises USD275,000 To Go Next Round
Chinese Government To Shut Out Foreign Online Games
China’s national copyright administration[C] announced the government would ban the market entry of online game services which are operated by non-Chinese service providers. According to the country’s state-run news website Xinhua-Net, the deputy commissioner for the sci-tech department of the administration says, regardless of whether it’s an independent entity or a joint venture with a… Continue reading Chinese Government To Shut Out Foreign Online Games