Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Google Alphabet in Japanese and other languages
Google finally added their long-testing “Google Suggest” feature to their top page. O’Reilly Radar made an interesting list of which letter shows what keyword when you type a single …
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Source Next takes USB Memory Software Package from CD-ROM
Packaged Software supplier Source Next will start selling their “USB Memory package” application from September 5th, 2008. Under the “U memo series” brand, they will sell …
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Twitter-like Mixi Echo keeps going
Despite of Twitter’s founder Evan Williams’ unplesant, Mixi’s microblogging feature “Mixi Echo” one month trial is announced to be extended for “uncertain …
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Samurai Weapon - Blog Destroyer Widget
[NB: Sound is on by default] Samurai Weapon is a bilingual(Japanese/English) blog widget provided by a big Japanese game vendor Koei, as a promotion of their new Nintendo DS game “Kunitori Zunou …
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Web2.0 is dead in Japan
It sounds like a joke, but the Japanese company “Web2.0, Inc.” turns out to be in deadpool in coming September 2008. Web2.0 Inc. was established by Digital Garage, the nation leading …
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In Japan, Yahoo! does "Google Knol"
In English Web, No.1 Google tries to erode Wikipedia’s territory by Knol. In Japan, interestingly, the champion portal Yahoo! Japan starts wiki based annotation service “Editable Related …
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Mobage Town forays into PC web from mobile
Mobage Town, the Japan’s largest mobile social networking service(SNS) launched their “PC version” website on July 24th 2008. Mobage Town has made a totally new field …
