LinkThink released a new social networking service “Web Kare – wonderful boys and lovely maiden story” featuring dating simulation game targetting female on 10th September, and gained over 10,000 users registered only in 5 days. On the service, you will spend a virtual school life with 4 young boys, while communicating other users. Like as… Continue reading Web-Kare – Virtual Boyfriends Social Network
Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
Wall Street Journal reported about how iPhone is not going well in Japan market. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone’s release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately. Well, in Japan, the hype was somehow “produced”. As far as I heard, Softbank gathered 1,500 iPhone… Continue reading Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
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: Gazopa delivers a great presentation on their image search engine
As Japan’s third company, Gazopa, a Hitachi-backed search engine for images, presented at TechCrunch50 today (the final day). Hideki Kobayashi, project leader at Gazopa, did a great job explaining the service, which makes it possible to look for images on the web similar to images you can upload to Gazopa or right-click on (on any… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Gazopa delivers a great presentation on their image search engine
From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Sekai Camera provides social tagging for the iPhone, delivers strange presentation
Tonchidot, a Tokyo-based start-up, was the second Japanese party presenting at this year’s TechCrunch50 conference that currently takes place in San Francisco. Their presentation today was probably the most talked about of day 2 (tomorrow is the last day of the conference) but in my view, this is because of the wrong reasons. As stated… Continue reading From TechCrunch50 in San Francisco: Sekai Camera provides social tagging for the iPhone, delivers strange presentation
Greasemetal – Google Chrome Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a popular Firefox AddOn which enables users to insert customized Javascripts on top of websites, to extend website functionality. Greasemetal is a Greasemonkey-like user Javascript inserter extension for Google Chrome. It is only a week after Google Chrome release, and done without having extension capability provided. By this Greasemetal, you may add any… Continue reading Greasemetal – Google Chrome Greasemonkey
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
Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50
OpenTrace is a service that “Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment” (from TechCrunch). OpenTrace is run by Rinen Inc, which is owned by Hirofumi Manganji and Hiroaki Shimachi. Rinen has received a Japanese government grant called Exploratory Software Project which is given… Continue reading Two Japanese startups launch at TechCrunch50
Cookpad – the number one recipe site
Cookpad is the biggest recipe site in Japan, and has 416,000 recipes on the site. Alexa shows that Cookpad has a higher rating than Food Network or AllRecipes (with 40,000 recipes). Cookpad has 4.5 million unique visitors per month, and 280 million page views per month. Ofcourse, recipes are posted by users. Unlike other recipe… Continue reading Cookpad – the number one recipe site