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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

Indonesia: Exploring Potentials Of Mobile & Tech In The 2nd Largest FB Population

    Editor’s note: This is a guest post penned by Ryo Umezawa, Director of J-Seed Ventures, one of tech-oriented venture incubators in Tokyo.  He visited Indonesia to attend Jakarta Ventures Night 2011 hosted by East Ventures and have met startups and techpreneurs.   He also attended “JIMs on the Plane” (inspired by Dave McClure’s… Continue reading Indonesia: Exploring Potentials Of Mobile & Tech In The 2nd Largest FB Population

All Star Developers Running Hackathon To Build Disaster Info Services

Many web companies and individuals are now running a nation-wide, virtual and real (Kyoto, Okayama and Fukuoka in West Japan) hackathon (collaborative programming marathon, see Wikipedia) named “Hack for Japan” [J] through this three days weekend (Monday is holiday, Spring equinox day, in Japan). Several companies are offering APIs, cloud hosting and data for the… Continue reading All Star Developers Running Hackathon To Build Disaster Info Services

Who’s Free And Tonchidot To Hold Fundraising Party At SXSW To Help Relief Efforts

A cross-post to Asiajin and Startup Dating. SXSW is currently taking place in Austin, Texas.   Asiajin contributors Serkan Toto and Paul Papadimitriou are there for moderating panels on Japanese web services and social media.  A team of the moderators, the presenters and the panels are now joining forces to help the disaster relief efforts… Continue reading Who’s Free And Tonchidot To Hold Fundraising Party At SXSW To Help Relief Efforts

Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position

Yahoo! Mobage [J], a joint PC social game platform by two Japanese web gorillas Yahoo! Japan and DeNA, announced [J] that the number of their users passed over three million in 5 months since its official open on October 1st, 2010. 3 million is bigger than 2.55 million, the number of active users Facebook Japan… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position

Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days

Coca Cola Japan’s Coca Cola Park [J] is one of the most successful Facebook promotion is Japan. The original promotion site, which supports both Facebook and Mixi, embraces 10 million members, half a billion page views per month. Sugoi Jihanki (= great vendor machine) is a Facebook app provided in the Coca Cola Park. On… Continue reading Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days

Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories

We’ve come across a service by NTT Communications tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service” [J], which unlike its name, is an incredibly interesting little innovation in the world of health management apps and web services. The smartphone app / web service allows people to keep track of their daily diet via their smartphone cameras, an extremely relevant… Continue reading Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories

Facebook Featured By Media Like Last Year’s Twitter In Japan

Weekly Diamond, Japanese business magazine featured Facebook for over 30 pages. Weekly Diamond 2011-01-29 As you see, the magazine cover has a lot of Facebook icons which were asked on Facebook by the editors. The first page shows applied readers’ Facebook icons, too. The sections are “What is Facebook?”, “Facebook Guide to start today” and… Continue reading Facebook Featured By Media Like Last Year’s Twitter In Japan