Apple and Softbank Mobile finally started the sales of the iPad in Japan on Friday. At Apple Store Ginza or one of Apple Japan’s two flagship stores in Tokyo, about 1,200 people were queuing for having the new device. The earliest bird who has been waiting at the store since Wednesday’s 4pm was 19-year-old part-timer… Continue reading Apple And Softbank Mobile Start iPad Sales In Japan On Friday
Iogous – A Display Ad Optimization Tool
A Tokyo-based Internet ad solution company, Fringe81 [JP], revealed their new ad optimization software called Iogous [JP]. Iogous is a specialized tool for optimizing display ad creative. Iogous enables to try numerous combinations of designs, colors, and texts with statistical method. Fringe81 says that the tool achieves few hundreds percent improvement of click-through-rate. It means… Continue reading Iogous – A Display Ad Optimization Tool
Breaking News: Rakuten To Launch E-Commerce Business With Media Giant In Indonesia
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten just announced today it would launch a joint venture with Indonesian media conglomerate Global Mediacom to run a e-commerce platform service in the country. Rakuten takes 51% stake in the joint venture which is capitalized at USD4.3M. The joint venture will start the service in the latter half of this year… Continue reading Breaking News: Rakuten To Launch E-Commerce Business With Media Giant In Indonesia
Uniqlo’s Lucky Line Campaign Makes It To The Twitter Trending Topics
Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo has made it to the Twitter Trending Topics through their latest campaign “Lucky Line”, which celebrates their 26th anniversary. The central campaign website [J] extends to reveal a virtual line of Twitter users who have entered for the chance to win a 1,000 yen coupon to Uniqlo shops. Users join the line by auto-tweeting from… Continue reading Uniqlo’s Lucky Line Campaign Makes It To The Twitter Trending Topics
New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt
What a bad timing! Opt, Inc., one of Japan’s largest internet ads agency, Kazeniwa and Overtex launched a new advertising platform on influencers’ tweets, named Twad.jp (pronounced “Tsuado”) on May 24th. On Twad, Twitter user (publisher) can register their region, categories s/he regularly tweets, etc. and how much yen they want for single tweet from… Continue reading New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt
Prime Minister Hatoyama Overtakes Japanese Twitter Top Position From Gachapin
Japan’s prime minister Yukio Hatoyama (@hatoyamayukio [J]) has finally gotten more twitter followers than the former top user Gachapin (Wikipedia. @gachapinblog [J]), a five years old dinosaur child. 634,519 followers 628,731 followers Incidentally, there was a battle for overall top position happend yesterday between Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher. Number of their followers are little… Continue reading Prime Minister Hatoyama Overtakes Japanese Twitter Top Position From Gachapin
RubyConf China 2010 To Be Held In Shanghai On June 26
RubyConf China 2010 will be held on June 26th at Shanghai Television University (228 Guoshun Road, cross Yangpu Road) (上海电视大学，国顺路288号). Last year RubyConf China was held very successfully with 450 attendees. Ruby’s father Matz was treated like a superstar with lots of autograph and photograph requests. This year, some of the talks will be done… Continue reading RubyConf China 2010 To Be Held In Shanghai On June 26
Twiman: Twitter Timeline In Manga-Comic Style
Twiman by Fumufumu Soft is a twitter decoration service which makes Japanese Manga style cartoon with tweets from yours, your timeline and your lists. You need to log in the service by giving permission by Twitter, then the tweets on your timeline embedded into random manga pictures. It seems to generate picture with all tweets… Continue reading Twiman: Twitter Timeline In Manga-Comic Style
TBS To Start New TV Show Bringing You Ustream Live From The World
Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), the key station for their nationwide private TV network in Japan, will start broadcasting a new variety show bringing you live reports from all across the globe by using Ustream on every Sunday night in association with Softbank Mobile. The program is titled “Kakumei (revolution) x TV[J]” and starts on May… Continue reading TBS To Start New TV Show Bringing You Ustream Live From The World
How Do The Venusians See The Earth’s Cyberculture?
JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the venus climate orbiter named “Akatsuki” meaning dawn in Japanese this morning. It will be launched at 6:58:22 a.m. on Friday in J.S.T. or 21:58:22 p.m. on Thursday in U.T.C. The scene of the orbiter’s launch will be streamcast live on several major video networks. Video source: ANN… Continue reading How Do The Venusians See The Earth’s Cyberculture?