Fit’s Dance Contest is a contest being held by Lotte, one of the biggest sweets seller in Japan, utilizing YouTube as a platform. An example dance is provided featuring Takeru Satou and Nozomi Sasaki, a popular actress and one of the most beloved icons on Japanese Tumblr. Rather than asking for original dances, both the… Continue reading Lotte’s $10,000 Dance Contest on YouTube
Category: Video
Behind the scenes of Sony’s Handycam campaign site “Cam with me”
Behind the scene of Sony’s Handycam promotion site called “Cam with me” with interview from producer and creator of the site by Yasuyuki Matsushita
Air Yakiniku Offers Virtual Meat For These Hard Times
As we go through this “great recession”, some of us may find that our wallets feel a bit lighter than usual. We can no longer enjoy the pricey cuts of beef we like so much, nor can we splurge on expensive bottles of wine. Many Japanese people are no doubt feeling the pinch as well.… Continue reading Air Yakiniku Offers Virtual Meat For These Hard Times
Users of Kadokawa’s New Video Site Can Add Anime Subtitles Collaboratively
Kadokawa Marketing, a subsidiary of this publishing and film-making conglomerate｢J], has introduced a new web video service called “kadoTV“. Kadokawa’s new service allows its users to collaboratively add synchronized, multilingual subtitles to each anime on the site. The service is based on video retrieval technology developed by Tokyo University’s graduate tech start-up TeamLab, and allows… Continue reading Users of Kadokawa’s New Video Site Can Add Anime Subtitles Collaboratively
Livedoor Starts Video Search Service
Livedoor started a video search service[J] on its portal, in association with Tokyo-based tech-venture Accessport Inc. Livedoor adopted Accessport’s video search engine called “Woopie“, and it allows keyword-searching of more than 300 million videos indexed from more than 300 video-sharing sites worldwide. The service’s search results reflect new videos uploaded to these sites within as little as… Continue reading Livedoor Starts Video Search Service
English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 2: How to use
UPDATE 31/12/2010: We wrote a completely new English guide on how to use Nico Nico Douga (click here), so please ignore the version below! We also offer a new English guide on how to register for Nico Nico Douga (click here). The following screenshots explain how to get around on Japanese video site Nico Nico… Continue reading English guide for Nico Nico Douga, part 2: How to use
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
From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
I am at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco right now (you might know I am a writer for the TechCrunch network). The Wifi was off so my report is a little late, sorry: Yesterday, a start-up from Tokyo called Rinen presented their product, Opentrace, to the 1,700-people crowd. Rinen has neither a company… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Japanese company Rinen presents Opentrace
Video Authoring on cell phone launched
If people writes novel (ketai shosetsu) and graduation thesis (*1) on cell phone, some people must be really patient with small display and small keypad. This is another new service which was not supposed to do on cell phone, editing movie. Softbank Creative, DeNA and Ubiquitous Entertainment launched a new service on DeNA’s huge cellular… Continue reading Video Authoring on cell phone launched
Nico Nico Douga goes global (almost)
The once Japanese-only and super-successful video platform Nico Nico Douga goes international. They announced Friday on the company blog that they developed a German and Spanish version of their service (comments and tags are separated from Japanese videos). German version Spanish version The international versions are already online. Nico Nico for people living in Taiwan… Continue reading Nico Nico Douga goes global (almost)