On February 9th, Mixi enhanced their Mixi Check (service like Facebook Like) and Mixi Check-in (like Foursquare) to NFC(Near Field Communication) compliant. The word “Real” is attached to these two service enhancements. By that, now you can show your fondness for NFC embedded items on Mixi Real Check, in addition to likes on web pages.… Continue reading Mixi Real Check-in – World First NFC Tag Location Based Service
Results for "mixi"
We found 301 results for your search.
For Social App Development: Mixi And CyberAgent Launch Joint Venture
Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they will launch a joint venture to produce social apps for mixi, Japan’s biggest social network, on February 1. CyberAgent is best known for its massive Ameba blog platform, Japan’s biggest (12.4 million registered users). The… Continue reading For Social App Development: Mixi And CyberAgent Launch Joint Venture
Mixi Partners With German Social Network VZ
Mixi, one of Japan’s largest social networks and a direct competitor to Facebook, announced [J] a new alliance on January 20 with German company Vznet Netzwerke. Mixi says that both companies will standardize their social application platforms to enable third-party social application providers to run their applications on both networks. Mixi announced the same type… Continue reading Mixi Partners With German Social Network VZ
Mixi Releases Android App
Mixi, Japan’s leading social network, already offers a decent mobile web site for smartphone users (Mixi Touch, which was launched in September). And today, the company finally announced an app for Android users (you can pretty much forget their much older iPhone app). The new app makes it possible to use Mixi’s main features, including… Continue reading Mixi Releases Android App
Mixi Gives Up New “Search Friends By E-mail Address” Feature After Harsh Rejection
On November 30th, Mixi, Japanese counterpart of Facebook, one of the three biggest Japanese social network service, introduced a new feature [J, requires Mixi log-in], which allows you to search your friend on Mixi from his/her e-mail address, which makes Mixi step into real life networks side. Before the change, you could invite your friend… Continue reading Mixi Gives Up New “Search Friends By E-mail Address” Feature After Harsh Rejection
Mixi Unveils SocialPhone For Softbank’s Androids
Mixi, one of Japan’s biggest social networking services, which is the most similar with Facebook among three, announced their new smartphone application plan with the third largest cellphone carrier Softbank Mobile. The trademarked “SocialPhone” is an Android application service which utilizes phone data like phone number data with Mixi’s social graphs. The service is planned… Continue reading Mixi Unveils SocialPhone For Softbank’s Androids
Nikkei Reporting Facebook-Mixi “Alliance” Lets Mixi Stock Up 6%
Thursday evening we reported that Facebook released a new application to put your updates on Facebook into its local rival Mixi. 2 hours later, 9:15 p.m. 28th (Japan Time), Nikkei reported [J] the news with a title “US Facebook allied(Teikei, in Japanese) with Mixi, shares information on social sites”. Nikkei said that Facebook announced their… Continue reading Nikkei Reporting Facebook-Mixi “Alliance” Lets Mixi Stock Up 6%
Facebook Adds Mixi Connector For Japanese
Facebook has just released a new export tool to connect itself with Japanese competitor social networking service, Mixi. The tool on Facebook, named “Facebook to Mixi wo Rinku”(Link Facebook and Mixi), will take you to Mixi API’s approval page. Which asks the following permissions you allow to the Facebook connector to do on Mixi data,… Continue reading Facebook Adds Mixi Connector For Japanese
New Location-Based Service: Mixi Sees 2 Million “Check Ins” In First Month
Mixi, Japan’s Facebook, last month introduced a new function, “Check-In”. As the name suggests, Check-In works much like Facebook Places does: press the “Check In” button on Mixi Mobile (the site’s cell phone version) to broadcast your current location to let your friends know where you are or share info on certain points of interests… Continue reading New Location-Based Service: Mixi Sees 2 Million “Check Ins” In First Month
Mixi Introduces New APIs; Enabling To Integrate Home Appliances With The Social Graph
There’s one more thing to tell you on Mixi[J]. Mixi upgraded the interface that has been introduced for two years to those who have partnered, and introduced two APIs – “mixi Plugin[J]” and “mixi Graph APIs[J]” on Friday. mixi Graph APIs are designed for the third parties to integrate their social web services and apps… Continue reading Mixi Introduces New APIs; Enabling To Integrate Home Appliances With The Social Graph