Akky Akimoto
Articles by Akky Akimoto
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Feel-on: Twitter Comicalization Client On Web/iPhone
Feel on! is a Twitter client service by a Japanese startup L is B. This client analyze your Twitter timeline with its Social Emotion Engine(SEE), and show each tweet with emotionally matched comic …
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Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Rakuten, Japan’s huge online mall, announced on 10th that they are to use Google search on their portal Infoseek Rakuten. Infoseek Rakuten has been using Yahoo! Japan search backend, and …
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Groupon Japan And Recruit Pompare Show Strong Recovery After The Quake
Japanese flash coupon vertical search Coupon-JP has just released an April version of sales estimation of major social coupon services [J, pdf] after March report skipped by the quake. Groupon Japan, …
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5,000 Yen($60) To Enable Twitter On Your Smartphone
A cellphone shop in Yokohama offers a service to set up your smartphone for tweeting by 5,000 yen, @poppo1028 reported. Twitter and other social media has been getting more and more attentions on TV, …
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Twitter Appoints Japan's Country Manager
On Japanese official blog, Twitter announced that they have had a country manager of Japan, first corporation manager outside of US. The blog is usually written in Japanese, but this one was both in …
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Facebook Japan Paused Growth By Earthquake, But Gains Back From... China?
At the beginning of April, I was almost writing up an article about how the Eastern Japan earthquake affected social media battle. Since the end of 2010, Japanese traditional media had been in great …
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Rakuten Releases Android App
Rakuten, huge Japanese online shopping mall company, launched a free Android App following to an iPhone app in February. The Android app has a barcode reader function, with which customers can scan …
