Shunichi Arai
Articles by Shunichi Arai
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Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50
OpenTrace is a service that “Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment” (from TechCrunch). OpenTrace is run by Rinen …
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Cookpad - the number one recipe site
Cookpad is the biggest recipe site in Japan, and has 416,000 recipes on the site. Alexa shows that Cookpad has a higher rating than Food Network or AllRecipes (with 40,000 recipes). Cookpad has 4.5 …
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Hatsugen komachi - an anonymous online forum for women
In Japan, 2channel (2ch) is the biggest anonymous online forum, and they are very notorious for its unregulated contents. Hatsugen komachi (Komachi) is another huge anonymous online forum with 100 …
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Open Web Asia '08 conference announced
Open Web Asia ‘08 conference has been announced to be held on 14th October 2008 in Seoul, Korea. 後ろに日本語の案内があります。 -– “The first pan-Asia web technology event bringing together …
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Mixi released its OpenID API
Mixi has released “mixi OpenID” API to public users. It enables developers to use mixi ID for authentication. Also the API has “my mixi authentication” and “community …
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Yokoku.in - a crime warning aggregation site
Yokoku.in is a very controversial web site made by Yano Satoru of satoru.net. What is this? I must made an explanation about the background before introducing the site. 8th June, a mass murder was …
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Netprint turns the nearest convenience store to your printer
Netprint is an Internet priting service which enables users to print their files through Internet to Seven-eleven convenience store’s printer. Fuji Xerox is providing the service nationwide in …
