Category: New Service

This me Lets You Create A Social Profile Page In 5 Minutes

Generally speaking, social profile editors are a dime a dozen. In the last few months, for example, about.me, flavors.me or Follr have cropped up in the US, allowing users to pull information from various social networks together to build a single online identity. But none of these services have a Japanese UI or integrate Japanese… Continue reading This me Lets You Create A Social Profile Page In 5 Minutes

Google Opens Evacuation Info Portal For Japanese Cellphone

Google built a dedicated page which is tailored for Japanese cellphone web browsers (i.e. i-mode and others) to help people suffering Tohoku earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis [J]. Compact web page for cellphone browser is in higher demand for many refugees at evacuation shelters. This is good move as well as other Google’s latest help like Person Finder,… Continue reading Google Opens Evacuation Info Portal For Japanese Cellphone

Bijostagram – Shows Only Beautiful Girls From Instagram

Bijostagram (bijo = beautiful lady in Japanese) is a new Instagram mashup from Japan to pick up only photos with beautiful girls. You open the page, then it refreshes periodically. The site was backed by a algorithm to detect beautiful girls photo only, developed by the creator hirotmb, and the frontend Javascript is supported by… Continue reading Bijostagram – Shows Only Beautiful Girls From Instagram

Hello Kitty Twitter App For iOS

It’s official. Bandai Namco has just released Hello Kitty themed Twitter client under the license of Sanrio. With basic Twitter client functionality, you may select two themes, “Kitty White” and “Kity and Love Teddy”. The app also has puzzle game It is available on iTunes app store with $2.99. English, French and Japanese menus are… Continue reading Hello Kitty Twitter App For iOS

Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan

Amazon Web Services announced on March 2 that they had added a Tokyo data center as its 5th in the world, 2nd in Asia after Singapore. Almost all of Amazon Web Services except Elastic MapReduce, Elastic Beanstalk, Import/Export are already available. The official blog says that there are several Japanese companies have been already using… Continue reading Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan

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

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

Pacman Twitter Client Pac’n Twit

Pac’n Twit for iPhone/iPad is a new free Twitter client by Bandai Namco, yes, the company made Pacman 31 years ago (Namco merged with Bandai in 2005). Here is a screenshot of Twitter timeline, It comes with Pac man themed design, has regular Twitter client features, tweet, reply, direct message, retweet, list, search, notification, post… Continue reading Pacman Twitter Client Pac’n Twit

Mixi Real Check-in – World First NFC Tag Location Based Service

On February 9th, Mixi enhanced their Mixi Check (service like Facebook Like) and Mixi Check-in (like Foursquare) to NFC(Near Field Communication) compliant. The word “Real” is attached to these two service enhancements. By that, now you can show your fondness for NFC embedded items on Mixi Real Check, in addition to likes on web pages.… Continue reading Mixi Real Check-in – World First NFC Tag Location Based Service