For three years David Eun, Google‘s VP of strategic partnerships, has been working on persuade Japanese media giants to join the team. The key stations of Japan’s two nationwide private TV networks, TV Asahi and TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) made agreements with Google on Tuesday, and the both broadcasters started distributing their news video clips… Continue reading Enemies Yesterday, Friends Today: Japanese Major TV Broadcasters Handshake With YouTube
Category: New Service
iPhone App To Blow Up Gal’s Skirt
Puff! by BottleCube Inc. is a newly released iPhone application features 3 girls whose skirts you can blow-up (the mic) or flick-up (the touch panel). Demo movie on YouTube has a subtitle of the app, i-Panchira. A lot more screenshot are on appbank’s review [J]. via appbank
The World Shortest URL Shortener Using Internationalized Domain Name
Yesterday I introduced a crazy 14 letters twitter clone and how much Japanese are obsessed with smallness. And today I am amazed again. A blogger Jamadam released an interesting URL shortening service, and that is the world shortest. [Update] @miyagawa pointed out that http://tinyarro.ws/ have been making the same shortest URL, though the generator URL… Continue reading The World Shortest URL Shortener Using Internationalized Domain Name
Remodel Your Body With Tweet-able Dumbbell, And Continue Your Exercise Routine
Billy’s Bootcamp, Core Rhythms and Figurerobics by Korean aerobics guru Jung Da Yeon(정다연) – Japanese midnight infomercial programs tempted TV shoppers to buy a variety of items to remodel their body shapes. These items will be used in several days after the purchase, but usually they will be stored in a shed and will be… Continue reading Remodel Your Body With Tweet-able Dumbbell, And Continue Your Exercise Routine
Two AR iPhone Apps Come To Our Hands This Week
Tokyo-based tech start-up led by Takahito Iguchi(@iguchi), a self-styled Willy Wonka who made an unique presentation at last year’s edition of TechCrunch 50, Tonchidot finally released an augmented reality (AR) iPhone app Sekai Camera on Thursday, it’s now available at AppStore for free of charge. In time with the release of the app, Mr. Iguchi… Continue reading Two AR iPhone Apps Come To Our Hands This Week
The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory
Mixi, the biggest social network service in Japan, started their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC on last month. Mixi Appli Mobile is planned to follow this month. After couple of months closed beta test, Mixi successfully lined up 130 applications by third parties and affiliated startups,… Continue reading The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory
Japanese Comics Target The World’s Second Most Populated Market
An NTT group company in mobile content development, NTT Solmare, and Kyoto-based mobile content developer Zero-Sum started distributing Japanese comic titles for cellphone users in India last Friday. The service is provided to the users of the country’s 6th ranked mobile carrier Tata Teleservices, and is also expected to start for the country’s 3rd ranked… Continue reading Japanese Comics Target The World’s Second Most Populated Market
Narita Express: In-train WiFi Service To Start In Competition With Other Transit Operators
As a countermeasure against other transit operators which have been providing in-cabin WiFi service for their passengers, JR East, a railway company operating a rapid express service from/to Narita International Airport, just announced it would start WiFi service in the train this coming October. UQ WiMax users and Softbank Telecom’s WiFi users are allowed to… Continue reading Narita Express: In-train WiFi Service To Start In Competition With Other Transit Operators
Herbivorous-type Boys Scouter: What Animal Are You?
Motion Portrait, a Tokyo-based tech start-up and expert in image processing, and Gigno System Japan, a mobile app developer and a subsidiary of Tokyo FM Broadcasting[J], jointly introduced a new mobile service called “Herbivorous-type Boys Scouter （草食男子スカウター[J])“, which allows you to measure how aggressive you are for girl hunting. Author’s Note: Herbivorous-type boys or 草食系男子… Continue reading Herbivorous-type Boys Scouter: What Animal Are You?
Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame
Hatena, known by a million geekiest loyal users and the most popular social bookmarks service in Japanese [J], announced that their joint project with console game giant Nintendo “Flipnote Hatena” launches in North America on 12th, in Europe on 14th August (both in local time). Flipnote Hatena is a CGM service on where users draw… Continue reading Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame