On Saturday, Tokyo-based tech start-up SpinningWorks introduced the alpha version of the iPad viewer app for clipping your favorite parts of e-books and sharing them with the others, which is called Qlippy. Qlippy is a combination of a website and the iPad app, and allows you to import EPUB-formatted content via iTunes and to share… Continue reading SpinningWorks Introduces iPad App To Create Social Media Of E-book Readers
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NHN Japan Shakes Hands With 70 Game Developers To Enter The Social Game App Business
The Japanese subsidiary of a Korean online game service operator, NHN Japan[J] announced at the briefing event held on Monday that they would enter the arena of social game business. The company’s game new platform enables to change the progress of games according to where/when you’re playing, how the weather around you is, and expects… Continue reading NHN Japan Shakes Hands With 70 Game Developers To Enter The Social Game App Business
Online Reward Portals And Internet Cafe Chains To Launch A Social App Platform
Accessport (web service developer known for its video search service Woopie), Seesaa[J] (blog service provider), G.Plan[J] (reward point exchange), Chance IT[J] (reward portal), Chobi Rich[J] (reward point exchange), NetMile[J] (a reward program that allows you to earn and use points on Japanese major commerce sites), Unitcom[J] (known for selling built-to-order PCs online), Runsystem[J] (Internet cafe… Continue reading Online Reward Portals And Internet Cafe Chains To Launch A Social App Platform
Recruit’s New Coupon Site Troubled, Raises Suspicious On Groupon Model
Recruit, an online-and-paper publication company (Asiajin) has been teasing its Groupon clone with Twitter lottery [J] of 20,000 yen to 100,000 yen ($1,100) prize, finally launched Pomparade [J] today, but their memorable first coupon had an issue. The first coupon seller is Ocean Casita, an Italian restaurant which locates at the 59th floor of Sunshine… Continue reading Recruit’s New Coupon Site Troubled, Raises Suspicious On Groupon Model
Twitnovels – Crowdsourcing Novel Community
Twitnovels opened on 12th July by two Japanese companies, Heartrails and Marici, is a community based novel writing platform supporting Japanese and English “relayed” novels. “Relayed Novel” is a form of online writing which you can sometimes see on Japanese forums like 2-channel. There a forum reader starts writing a short text, then someone continues,… Continue reading Twitnovels – Crowdsourcing Novel Community
Cybridge Launches Deal-Of-The-Day ASP Platform For Potential Service Providers
Cybridge[J], a Tokyo-based web service company supporting real shop and consumer businesses, launched an ASP-based deal-of-the-day outsourcing platform called Dadat[J] last Friday. The new service’s name may come from a Japanese imitative word meaning pound-pound reminding you of the scene that many customers are rushing into your store. The service allows potential deal-of-the-day service providers… Continue reading Cybridge Launches Deal-Of-The-Day ASP Platform For Potential Service Providers
iPhone App To Scrub Down Gal’s Make-Up “The Suppin.”
On July 3rd, CA Mobile, Cyber Agent’s mobile contents subsidiary, released an iPhone/iPod app “The Suppin.”(Face without makeup). On the app, which features either Japanese gals or kyabajo-es(cabaret-club hostess. see Neo Japonisme’s excellent article if you are interested in), you can scrub down their special makeup – “mori make” explained that high-stacked make-up on the… Continue reading iPhone App To Scrub Down Gal’s Make-Up “The Suppin.”
Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
Softbank Group’s Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (means “Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery”), which we reported last December, lets people send parcels only by e-mail address, i.e. without knowing the recipients’ real address, now start supporting emerging messaging endpoint, Twitter. When a sender shows their intention to send a package to another Twitter user, this service asks to the… Continue reading Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
Apple And Softbank Mobile Start iPad Sales In Japan On Friday
Apple and Softbank Mobile finally started the sales of the iPad in Japan on Friday. At Apple Store Ginza or one of Apple Japan’s two flagship stores in Tokyo, about 1,200 people were queuing for having the new device. The earliest bird who has been waiting at the store since Wednesday’s 4pm was 19-year-old part-timer… Continue reading Apple And Softbank Mobile Start iPad Sales In Japan On Friday
New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt
What a bad timing! Opt, Inc., one of Japan’s largest internet ads agency, Kazeniwa and Overtex launched a new advertising platform on influencers’ tweets, named Twad.jp (pronounced “Tsuado”) on May 24th. On Twad, Twitter user (publisher) can register their region, categories s/he regularly tweets, etc. and how much yen they want for single tweet from… Continue reading New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt