What I’d like to show you today is audio LAN cable called “BLACK MAGIC”. It will be out soon on Nov. 15th on Zigsow, which is an online-mall with users-review community. Its price is 105,000 yen which is equivalent to 1070 US dollars. It just only 1.5 meter! It indeed surprising! I think it is… Continue reading Voodoo LAN cable sold in $1070
Demae-can – online catering site
Demae-can (JP) is a comprehensive online catering and food delivery service. You can order pizza, sushi, or Joe the Plumber from your web browser. Demae-can has contracts with national chains as well as many small independent restaurants. You can use Demae-can throughout Japan. Orders are sent to the restaurants by fax. So, small restaurant owners… Continue reading Demae-can – online catering site
Free Twitter Background Images from Japan
You may know that Japan is one of the most active country on twitter by numbers of tweets. 37 Japanese illustrators who use twitter gathered in a project TDC(Twitter Drawers Collection), where they make twitter background images under the single theme, yes, “twitter”. It is explained that you may freely use those images ONLY FOR… Continue reading Free Twitter Background Images from Japan
Yahoo! Japan starts LinkedIn like business SNS
Japan’s web giant Yahoo! Japan’s new challenge is a social business networking service, the name is CU. CU is a membership service based on invitation. The top page explains themselves as “CU (pronounce “see you”, no matched Japanese words so it is a neutral name for Japanese users) is a business networking service which supports… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan starts LinkedIn like business SNS
The Next Innovation on Web Services will be out from Asia: Open Web Asia’08 Event Report
Why it is difficult for European and U.S. companies to advance into Asia. At the event to discuss about the future potential of the Asian Web “Open Web Asia ’08” held in Seoul, a lot of hot discussions were held. George Godula who is the founder of Web2Asia – a full-service market entry partner and… Continue reading The Next Innovation on Web Services will be out from Asia: Open Web Asia’08 Event Report
Mixi gets pre-installed on all SoftBank phones, starting with the Sharp 931SH
It seems that Japan’s biggest SNS Mixi and the country’s third largest cell phone carrier SoftBank are getting closer and closer. Following the announcement of the general partnership in the mobile web space, all SoftBank handsets sold from now on will feature a pre-installed Mixi widget. Sharp’s awesome Aquos 931SH cell phone, which features an… Continue reading Mixi gets pre-installed on all SoftBank phones, starting with the Sharp 931SH
Shake-up in Japan’s mobile web: Mixi, MySpace, Mobage, Yahoo, Dwango and SoftBank Mobile collaborate
The mobile web is huge in Japan, meaning the alliance between Japanese Internet powerhouses Dwango, Mixi, MySpace Japan, Mobage-town, Yahoo and telecommunications company SoftBank Mobile announced on Thursday has to be taken very seriously. Details are rather scarce at this point but SoftBank, for example, says [J] Dwango will provide content from its super-successful video… Continue reading Shake-up in Japan’s mobile web: Mixi, MySpace, Mobage, Yahoo, Dwango and SoftBank Mobile collaborate
livedoor started “Geocities 2.0”
Japanese portal site livedoor announced today that they started a new free hosting service EDGE co. Lab. Developers/entrepreneurs can get hosted servers from livedoor and run their web service without charge. The conditions are; “Powered by EDGE” must be shown somewhere on the page livedoor OpenID and (if possible) livedoor Auth API need to be… Continue reading livedoor started “Geocities 2.0”
Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone
Softbank Mobile announced today to release 1-seg digital TV tuner device for iPhone in the middle of December. The 80-gram device provides the feature of TV over WiFi (converting TV signal received to IP-based data for iPhone) and doubles as a battery extender. Three hours continuous TV viewing is available. Price is not announced so… Continue reading Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone
GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone
Official Google Blog (Japanese) announced [J] that their gmail on PC now became capable to send Emoji, emoticon-like letters supported by Japanese cellphones. (receiving emoji-mail from cellphone has been supported already.) Even in English mode of gmail, your “Rich formatting” mode has a new set of emoji selector. I sent a mail with emoji-s from… Continue reading GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone