Japan – Page 61

Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected

Daily deal coupon search service Coupon.jp released [J] their February research on Japanese daily deal coupon service sales by calculating each site’s coupon prices and number of sold tickets. On their chart, No.2 Pompare, run by Recruit, shows 30% growth to be about 70% of No.1 Groupon Japan’s sales. It was about half in January… Continue reading Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected

Buy Your Twitter Friend a Beer With Micro-gifting Service giftee

Have you ever wanted to buy your Twitter friend a drink as a way of saying “Thanks” or “Cheer up”? You could have opted for an Amazon or iTunes e-giftcard if you knew their email address – but that kind of digital money is just not the same as a fuzzy or warm drink that… Continue reading Buy Your Twitter Friend a Beer With Micro-gifting Service giftee

Adobe Icons Nail Art

By the same Japanese web designer @mamipeko, who did browsers nail art, and her friend Tomoko. The two female web designers made an unit “Web Nail Girls” and will enjoy and show us more web-related nail art. Photoshop icon nail art, which is not photoshopped. See more photos on Ha-Ha-blog.

Nekostagram – Cats Only Instagram Viewer

Nekostagram (neko = cat in Japanese) is a simple web service which only shows cat photos from Instagram. The service was developed [J] by a Japanese Ruby developer @ruedap, uses official Instagram API on Ruby framework Sinatra. It runs on free plan on Heroku hosting service, and seems down by rush of visitors.

Dentsu Becomes Official Sales & Marketing Representative for Facebook Japan

Dentsu and Facebook Japan have announced today a major deal to appoint Dentsu as the official sales and marketing support representative in Japan. As outlined in their press release, Dentsu will offer services to include effective fan page creation and maintenance, exclusive access to Facebook Premium Advertising, and offer strategies that will integrate Facebook ads into Dentu’s… Continue reading Dentsu Becomes Official Sales & Marketing Representative for Facebook Japan

Silent Camera – Reducing iPhone4 Shutter Noise Even In Japan

see more Sports Pictures Silent Camera for iPhone is a domain specific application for Japanese iPhone users, who own the specially customized Softbank iPhone, on which you can not turn off camera shutter sound, which is added for Japan market, where all cellphone cameras are so to avoid camera voyeurism. With the app, you can… Continue reading Silent Camera – Reducing iPhone4 Shutter Noise Even In Japan

Japan’s Online Music Market Shrank For First Time Ever Last Year

Bad news for the Japanese music industry: the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) yesterday released [information in English] the sales figures of digital delivery in 2010 and said that the market for online music shrank for the first time last year. Online music sales contracted by 5% year-on-year to 85.99 billion yen/$1.05 billion from… Continue reading Japan’s Online Music Market Shrank For First Time Ever Last Year

Cheating With Japanese Yahoo! Answers Happens At Kyoto Univ Entrance Exam

Today, 26th February in afternoon, one question around Japanese translation to English on Yahoo! Chiebukuro [J], one of Japan’s most popular Q and A service run by Yahoo! Japan, was mentioned on giant bulletin board 2-channel [J] by an anonymous Japanese web users. The following comments (all anonymous) pointed out that the question is identical… Continue reading Cheating With Japanese Yahoo! Answers Happens At Kyoto Univ Entrance Exam

Uncer: Japan Now Has Kind Of A Quora Clone

One of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, Q&A site Quora (of which I am a big fan), now has a Japanese clone of sorts. Dubbed Uncer (short for “uncertain”), the site is probably Quora’s first clone in Asia (as Zhihu, the inevitable Chinese counterpart, still is in closed beta). Uncer is apparently run by just two… Continue reading Uncer: Japan Now Has Kind Of A Quora Clone