As Akky reported here on Asiajin, the Association of IP Simulcast Radio launched Radiko.jp[J] on Monday, almost a week has been passed. It has been attracting potential radio lovers using desktop or laptop on a daily basis, which caused network heavy load against the service on the day of the service launch. Furthermore, some of… Continue reading User-generated Web Apps Are Being Born Around IP Simulcast Radio Service
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A Japanese TV Network Testing Social Casual Game Network
One of Japan’s major television network Fuji TV announced and called for beta testers for their new online community site “Kimi to Fuji TV” [J] (“Kimi Fuji” in short) on March 15th. “Kimi to” means “with You” in Japanese. At beta, the site offers few social games which themed on their popular TV programs like… Continue reading A Japanese TV Network Testing Social Casual Game Network
Index Corp. Helps Foreign Social Game Developers Enter Japan
Mixi, GREE, Mobage-town – Japan’s top three social networking services have either already opened or decided to open their platforms to third-party developers in the last few months. And a handful of foreign application providers, such as RockYou from the US or Rekoo from China, already managed to successfully launch localized social games on Mixi,… Continue reading Index Corp. Helps Foreign Social Game Developers Enter Japan
[UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
UPDATE: Over 3G, make sure to wait 30-60 seconds for the stream data to get cached. After that, you’ll notice a significant jump in picture and audio quality. Japan has a plethora of TV channels, but the biggest battleship is NHK [JP], the country’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK itself operates a number of different… Continue reading [UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
Dentsu iButterfly Experiments AR and Location Based Coupon Service
Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertising agency, announced that they started experimental coupon platform iButterfly with free iPhone application. The application “iButterfly – Coupon Entertainment” can be downloaded for free until the end of March 2010 (requires iPhone 3GS). On the mobile application, user can look through the iPhone app to the town and find butterfly… Continue reading Dentsu iButterfly Experiments AR and Location Based Coupon Service
Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads
Japan’s second largest ad agency Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Sony CSL‘s spin-out specializing in developing location detection technology with WiFi signals Koozyt and the country’s second-ranked newspaper in its circulation the Asahi Shimbun jointly started a new ad service using the iPhone today. The new service is named A-Clip, by installing the iPhone app and… Continue reading Hakuhodo And Koozyt Introduce iPhone App Adding Video Extension To Paper Ads
Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi
On the first day of this new year, Kanagawa-headquartered funny web app developer Kayac launched a new service which allows you to decorate your Twitter icon with sushi items. The service, which is named Twitter Sushi, works in conjunction with Twitter, you are allowed to choose a sushi from varieties such as a chunky omelet… Continue reading Kayac Introduces New Service To Decorate Your Twitter Icon With Sushi
China’s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up
Beijing-based serial entrepreneur Nick Yang (杨宁, see this ChineseSavvy.com article for more about him) got his third start-up Wukong Search (唔箜搜索) [C, mobile] go live in Mainland China. In prior to the third start-up, he founded the popular web portal ChinaRen[C] for the younger generation in China, and succeeded to sell it to one of… Continue reading China’s Best-known Mobile Portal Founder Launches New Search Start-up
Bijin-Tokei Gots Inevitable Follower – Adult Version
We covered the first Bijin-Tokei (Beautiful Girls Clock, if you are to take Japanese language exam, “Bijin-Dokei”), every single of 1440 minutes has a different photo with a beautiful girl hanging the time on a blackboard, on their launch. It got huge attentions and has been producing a lot of variants, both by themselves (Binan… Continue reading Bijin-Tokei Gots Inevitable Follower – Adult Version
Taxi-pooling Service Meets The Best Known LBS iPhone App And Map Portal
Probably it’s common in any city around the world that not more female geeks are appeared than males at tech industry scenes. Except some activities that encourage more females to join this exciting community, such as U.S.-based “Girls in Tech” and Tokyo Girl Geeks[J], it is mere that we see a female entrepreneur who runs… Continue reading Taxi-pooling Service Meets The Best Known LBS iPhone App And Map Portal