Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Google Japan's In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By "Google"
In Tokyo Metro train, I noticed small ads by Google Japan. The ads are for Google Mobile Search promotion. This one suggests to search Google by “Shibuya Movie” when you want to know if …
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Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages
A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program. The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which …
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Japanese Cellphone Manual Goes In Manga Comic
Different from other countries where cartoon are mostly for kids, in Japan, manga (Japanese style comic) nation, many grown-up keep reading manga through their lives and eventually almost all kind of …
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Mixi Echo Becomes Mixi Voice To Chase Twitter
Japan’s biggest social network service Mixi [J, registration required], who had started in-service microblog Mixi Echo since last summer, renamed it with Mixi Voice and made it as an …
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Amazon Japan's Counterattacks To Rakuten Books
Amazon Japan v.s. Japan’s local Rakuten battle was recently well covered on TechCrunch (by our buddy Serkan Toto, of course). Amazon is doing pretty good localization on their main part, books, …
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See You, CU
Even Japan’s Web Colossus Yahoo! Japan can easily fail if trying to force real name to Japanese users. The social business networking service Yahoo! CU, which launched November 2008 is …
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YAPC::Asia 2009 A Massive Perl Community Event
Following to the LLTV(annual Lightweight Language Conference in Tokyo) and PHP Conference Japan 2009 (Asiajin’s cover), another sub-1000 attendees class web developer conference YAPC::Asia 2009 …
