Weathernews Inc., the world largest private weather service company headquatered in Japan, is conducting the 5th year “Sakura Project (Cherry-blossom project)” with involving over 17,000 users around the nation via cellular phone browsers. People, willingly registering this nation-wide CGM project on the Weathernews mobile site ( http://wni.jp/ , seems only available from Japanese cellularphone), are… Continue reading Cherry Blossom Frenzy hits mobile CGM
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Drecom rescued by Rakuten
Drecom announced that their board had decided business alliance with, and will raise 900 million yen shares to Rakuten, Japan’s top E-Commerce firm. Drecom, which is a blog system vendor for small and mid sized companies, also doing web services. Rakuten will be the second shareholder of Drecom with 20.02% stocks, following to the founder/CEO… Continue reading Drecom rescued by Rakuten
Backlog: a web-based issue tracking software
Hi all. Today I introduce a software from Fukuoka, the city where I’m living. Backlog is a web-based issue tracking software created by Nulab, a software company based in Fukuoka. Backlog has a similar functionality to Trac, but its user interface is much more friendly. Backlog’s features are: issue tracking, wiki, subversion support, and webdav… Continue reading Backlog: a web-based issue tracking software
“www” has another meaning in Japanese Web
When browsing Japanese websites, especially user-generated ones like BBS, you may see a lot of “w” letter at the end of lines on Japanese text. Such like, “Blablabla www” Do you know what they are? Those “w”, “ww”, “www” or longer consective “w”s mean laugh, laugh out loud in Japan. i share Inc. recently researched… Continue reading “www” has another meaning in Japanese Web
2D barcode tombstone
Ishinokoe (means “voice of stone”) K.K. announced their newly designed tombstone series “Kuyou no mado” (“commemoration windows”), which has QR Code (Japanese 2D bar code) inside. This QR Code, enhanced version “Design QR Code”, developed and trademarked by IT Design, can have small extra images in the code, which does not prevent proper code scanning.… Continue reading 2D barcode tombstone
Tokyo2point0 event: Kakaku’s Photohito and Press Army
The monthly Tokyo2point0 event took place for the 10th time in Harajuku last Tuesday. More info about the event and network can be found on the official Tokyo2point0 site, the Facebook group or on Mixi. This time, two presentations were held (in English and Japanese), leaving enough room for networking among the attendees (which is… Continue reading Tokyo2point0 event: Kakaku’s Photohito and Press Army
Anti-virus vendor Trendmicro website got hacked
Trendmicro Japan announced that some of their website pages are found to be modified from March 9th to 12th. Those hacked pages had a virus by which visitors could have got on their PC. Their infected page list contains both Japanese and English pages about some virus information, but we could not find the counterpart… Continue reading Anti-virus vendor Trendmicro website got hacked
Niconico Douga SP1 and its expanding reach
Niwango hold a press conference about its Niconico Douga‘s update release “SP1” (upgraded from “RC2”) on March 5th 13:00 (JST). Current statistics of Niconico Douga provided by director Seiji Sugimoto: 5.6 million registered users 1.14 million of users using cellularphone version 189 thousands paid users listed on NTT Docomo’s i-mode official site Ads sale in… Continue reading Niconico Douga SP1 and its expanding reach
Japan’s Cyber University offers courses on PCs and mobiles
In April last year, Japan’s first so-called Cyber University opened its virtual doors. The university is private and headquartered in Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyuushu. It is run by a nonlisted stock company called Japan Cyber Education Institute which is mainly controlled by Japanese Internet telecom giant SoftBank. As of now, approximately 1,900… Continue reading Japan’s Cyber University offers courses on PCs and mobiles
Jude – a UML modeling tool
UML modeling tool Jude is a popular software design tool amongst Japanese developers. A free version of Jude has a capability to write all diagrams of UML (class, robustness, usecass, activity, sequence, collaboration, component, state-chart, and deployment). A professional version costs 29400yen ($275) and supports ER diagram, Dataflow diagram, and Mindmap. Kenji Hiranabe is the… Continue reading Jude – a UML modeling tool