Taiwan’s Apple Daily: A New Style Of Making News Visible Gets The World’s Reputation

The world’s most successful professional golfer Tiger Woods is now facing adultery scandal.   Taiwan’s gossip news media Apple Daily (owned by Hong Kong’s Nextmedia) made 3-D CG videos on his car crash and what might have happened.   Some of the videos were put on YouTube and marked 2 million views in the last ten days.… Continue reading Taiwan’s Apple Daily: A New Style Of Making News Visible Gets The World’s Reputation

Japan’s CyberAgent Sets Up $22.7 Million Fund For Startups In East Asia

The more you talk with Japanese VCs and entrepreneurs these days, the more you hear “China” as the next target for investing money or establishing a subsidiary. Now Japanese web behemoth CyberAgent (listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange) says it has set up a fund exclusively focused on web startups in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan… Continue reading Japan’s CyberAgent Sets Up $22.7 Million Fund For Startups In East Asia

Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users

Tokyo-based digital content distributor Bitway[J] started distributing popular Japanese manga series today to handsets of Taiwanese cellphone operator Far EasTone Telecommunications[C].   The distributed series include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Death Note, One Piece, Boys Over Flowers, Dr. Slump and Happy Mania. Bitway provides an integrated viewer application for Taiwanese cellphone users, and it displays the content… Continue reading Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users

Japan’s Largest Q&A Site Launches Official Chinese Edition

On Tuesday, Shibuya-based Q&A portal site OK Wave officially released its Chinese edition[C] in association with Chubun Industry[J] which publishes a Chinese-language newsletter[C] and provides a multi-channel IPTV service[C] for Chinese residents in Japan, and Aoyama Data Center[J] which has data center facilities in both capital cities of Japan and Mainland China. (Asiajin has not… Continue reading Japan’s Largest Q&A Site Launches Official Chinese Edition

English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 1: How to register

UPDATE 31/12/2010: We wrote a completely new English guide on how to register for Nico Nico Douga (click here), so please ignore the version below. We also offer a new English guide on how to get around on the site (click here). Japanese uber video portal Nico Nico Douga (all posts on Asiajin) recently launched… Continue reading English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 1: How to register

Niconico-Douga expressed its Taiwan version begins next week

via CNET Japan Online Video sharing/comment services Niconico-Douga will upgrade October 10th 6:00 p.m. (JST) with access/visibility related enhancement, from the owner company Niwango’s release. The release also includes that they will open Taiwan localized version of Niconico-Douga on October 18th. Niwango’s main area is cellular phone contents, but their started Niconico-Douga got popular as… Continue reading Niconico-Douga expressed its Taiwan version begins next week