The biggest PHP community conference in Japan, PHP Conference 2008 was held on 21th July2008 (Sea Day, national holiday) at Kamata, Tokyo. There were 500 PHP engineers atendees. Keynote began with Rui HIROKAWA, Japan PHP users group, who has been contributing a lot for PHP multibyte handling. He talked mainly about the PHP updates on… Continue reading PHP Conference 2008 report
Category: Japan
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 occurred in Akihabara. One man killed 7 people and injured 10 people. He had written a message in Internet bulletin board… Continue reading Yokoku.in – a crime warning aggregation site
Google Japan starts Street View at last
Google Japan starts Google Map Street View in Japan. Now the street view is available in some principal cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, etc. You know, using Street View we can see the 360-degree view of a place. The following image is the view of Shibuya. see street view Almost all of related news… Continue reading Google Japan starts Street View at last
I Love Maker
I Love Maker (English version) is a new Flash based generator for “I ♥ NY” style logo. You can customize texts, texts-size and mark (heart or others). For various users, different sizes are provided for typical cellularphone background image size (can be set by using QR Code), Mixi profile image size and three other sizes.… Continue reading I Love Maker
Mixi testing their “Twitter”
Japan’s behemoth social network service Mixi has launched its microblogging service “Mixi Echo” for a limited time. The page introducing the new twitter-like one-line comment service is featured on the “information from Mixi” section. The guide page, says that this service is for limited time only until September 1st. If you turn on the Mixi… Continue reading Mixi testing their “Twitter”
Top 20 of Japan’s most valuable web companies
The following list shows an up-to-date list of Japan’s most valuable web companies by market capitalization. It’s interesting to see 6 of them are large-cap (with 2 being very close). But 3 of these companies rather belong to the realm of financial services (the list includes companies, which are not exclusively engaged in Internet-related business).… Continue reading Top 20 of Japan’s most valuable web companies
Web-sticky service Lino now available in three languages: Japanese, English and (new) Chinese
Lino, a web based sticky note service competing with Postica, MyStickies and most notably Slingpage (and others) is a rare beast among Japanese web companies: It’s very international. The Tokyo-based service yesterday announced in the English version of their company blog they not only completely revamped the site by changing the design and making it… Continue reading Web-sticky service Lino now available in three languages: Japanese, English and (new) Chinese
Digital Garage gives 30% of Technorati Japan to Technorati US
Technorati Japan, established by Digital Garage(DG) in January 2005, is now shared with Technorati, Inc.. DG announced that they sold issued new shares which becomes 30% of the Technorati Japan
Mixi starts “Celebrity Account”
Japan’s largest social network Mixi started a specialized user accounts limited for TV-talents/musicians on July 28th 2008. Mixi has a system limitation on your number of friends “Mai Miku”(My Mixi), 1,000 friends at most, however, with this “official account”, which Mixi ascertains the account is owned by the celebrity herself/himself/themselves (=not fake), that celebrity account… Continue reading Mixi starts “Celebrity Account”
Q&A: What is the Japanese equivalent of [Western web service]?
Here is a list of where Japanese users usually go on the web when they want to connect with their friends, buy something or get information. I feature “made-in-Japan” sites and software only (well, almost), knowing that i.e. Google, Amazon and Firefox are highly popular in this country as well. Some of these Japanese sites… Continue reading Q&A: What is the Japanese equivalent of [Western web service]?