Japanese famous two serial entrepreneurs/web service developer unveiled they would jointly launch a U.S. Kickstarter-like online patronage platform for creators, called Campfire[J] very shortly. Unlike a social lending service nor an online donation platform, the service gives creators and artists money raising opportunities for their new projects by collecting a small sum of money online… Continue reading Japan’s Kickstarter-like Online Patronage Platform Campfire To Be Launched
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Chinamode 2010: 45 Finalists Nominated For China’s Best Web Service Awards (2/3)
(Continued from the previous post.) – – – – – – – – – – Category 4: Life and Task Management Tool of the Year Vdisk.me[C] (微盘) is a Dropbox-like file synchronization and backup service provided by China’s web business tycoon Sina. It can be linked with your account of Sina’s micro-blog service, which helps… Continue reading Chinamode 2010: 45 Finalists Nominated For China’s Best Web Service Awards (2/3)
Chinamode 2010: 45 Finalists Nominated For China’s Best Web Service Awards (1/3)
Chinamode 2010[C] is a competition to choose the best web services and apps in Mainland China, which is co-organized by 25 tech blogs and 10 tech news media in the country. Its award-presenting ceremony is scheduled to be held in Beijing on the 24th of this month, where 17 experts from VC firms, tech media… Continue reading Chinamode 2010: 45 Finalists Nominated For China’s Best Web Service Awards (1/3)
Bijin Kabuka: Girls Presenting Quotes Make You Hot Even When Markets Are Cold
Bijin Tokei, which is known for having developed a hot girl clock gadget, has developed a new gadget in association with SBI Holdings, a conglomerate of online financial services. It is called Bijin Kabuka[J] and cute girls show you the realtime quotes every minute. It aims to entertain market board watchers, they say, and allows… Continue reading Bijin Kabuka: Girls Presenting Quotes Make You Hot Even When Markets Are Cold
Twitter Shogi – Japanese Chess Over Tweets
Twitter Shogi(= Japanese Chess) by Kayac is a new web service for good-old correspondence (Japanese) chess between two Twitter users. You can simply start a new game with @your_opponent by tweeting like, @your_opponent 7六歩 #tw_shogi then the service will find the new game begins, record your and your opponent’s moves. The second word shows the… Continue reading Twitter Shogi – Japanese Chess Over Tweets
World Sound Mix – Feel The World By Sound/Noise
The World Sound Mix By 43d is “a web based sound mixing engine that generates a location based Ambient sound from varied sounds from all over the world” (from their website). The sounds are colored by categories – green for nature, blue for city/town, yellow for voice/song and red for instrument. Sounds from different part… Continue reading World Sound Mix – Feel The World By Sound/Noise
Chirpstory: Japan’s Best-known Service For Curating Tweets Goes International
Togetter[J], a web service for curating tweets by hashtags or containing keywords, has introduced its English version called Chirpstory on Thursday. As well as Togetter (Japanese version), Chirpstory allows you to make a “story” curating all tweets about a specific topic only by drag and drop of several tweets for defining the topic. It’s Twitter… Continue reading Chirpstory: Japan’s Best-known Service For Curating Tweets Goes International
Tokyo Taxis Become WiFi-Enabled
In association with NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo Musen[J], an alliance of taxi operators in Tokyo, started today providing in-car WiFi Internet access for free for taxi users on 820 cars travelling within Tokyo Prefecture. 100 of the 820 cars carry PSP Go (PlayStation Portable) as well, taxi users are allowed to playing games with it,… Continue reading Tokyo Taxis Become WiFi-Enabled
Conit Launches Easy-to-manage In-app Purchase Platform For Android App Developers
Tokyo-based tech start-up Conit launched an in-app purchase platform for the Android apps as well as the iPhone/iPad apps on Friday, in association with Japan’s largest ad agency Dentsu. The platform is named as Samurai Purchase[J], and allows smartphone app developer to manage all their in-app purchases that are made by users via the Android… Continue reading Conit Launches Easy-to-manage In-app Purchase Platform For Android App Developers
KDDI And Weathernews Introduce New Style Of Weather Updates For Cellphone
Japan’s second largest cellphone operator KDDI and the world’s largest meteorological company Weathernews jointly announced that they had launched a new weather update service by using Stevenson screens built on about 100 cellphone base stations in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, which is named Soratena after sora (meaning ‘sky’) and antenna. The service is available… Continue reading KDDI And Weathernews Introduce New Style Of Weather Updates For Cellphone