Tama Art University 20 yo female student Mayuko made this great alphabet font by human leg hair. The font used on an ad-board in real[Update] the ad board is a “sample” by Mayuko. via ITMedia [J]
What’s So Exciting? Amazon’s Seattle Delivery-To-Locker Experiment At Convenience Store
Geekwire has been reporting (1, 2) US Amazon’s locker experiment in Seven-Eleven in Seattle, USA. With the locker, US Amazon customers will be able to receive their items not at home but at store. I noticed that this news may be big as many other popular English blogs referred it. For me it is interesting… Continue reading What’s So Exciting? Amazon’s Seattle Delivery-To-Locker Experiment At Convenience Store
iichi: Marketplace For Handmade Goods From Japan (In English)
If you live outside Japan and were ever interested in getting handmade goods from this country, here’s your chance: a service called iichi, which launched in Japanese in July this year, just opened a site in English. The idea is similar to Etsy‘s : all products offered on the marketplace must be handmade. iichi is… Continue reading iichi: Marketplace For Handmade Goods From Japan (In English)
Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, has launched a new service dubbed Yahoo Box today. Yahoo Box is an online storage service with three plans: 5GB are given for free to any user with a Yahoo Japan ID 50GB is the maximum space premium members get for free (a Yahoo Japan premium membership costs US$4.50… Continue reading Yahoo Box: Yahoo Japan Starts Online Storage Service
Mixi Releases iPad App And Windows Phone Versions
Japanese (orthodox) large social network Mixi is trying to expand their apps experience on more devices. On September 21, Mixi released [J] an Windows Phone app. (Windows Phone 7.0 or above. 7.5 recommended) image: Mixi Voice short messages on Windows Phone’s Panorama user interface image: your friend’s posts page The app can be downloaded on… Continue reading Mixi Releases iPad App And Windows Phone Versions
Gloops’ “Legend Card” English Version Released For Global Market
gloops, Inc. [J] who run the social game for Mobage “Dai-Sodatsu!! Legend Card,” has released an English version as “Legend Cards” and held an exhibit at the 2011 Tokyo Game Show. “Dai-Sodatsu!! Legend Card” is a card game style social RPG. Players gather and build up cards which have been scattered around the world and… Continue reading Gloops’ “Legend Card” English Version Released For Global Market
September 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Continued from (Part 2). Last part of September news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Mixi bought Naked Technology Wilcom’s New Frisk-size Cellphone. Their claiming “world smallest” seems the smallest among cellphone having 10-digit buttons. TechCrunch covered it [En] Naver Japan’s Mobile Messenger… Continue reading September 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Multi-Social Media Client Crowy Refreshes UI, Adds Facebook & LinkedIn Support
Mutli-social media client Crowy relaunched with a brand-new user interface and web site today. The new design looks refined and much improved, with a new logo and color scheme. Crowy is a browser client that supports multiple social media services including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, youRoom, Yammer, and Cybozu Live. “It was just a test project”… Continue reading Multi-Social Media Client Crowy Refreshes UI, Adds Facebook & LinkedIn Support
KDDI (And SoftBank) To Accept iPhone 4S Pre-Orders From October 7
The iPhone 4S is coming to Japan: both SoftBank Mobile and new provider KDDI au, the No. 3 and 2 mobile carriers in this country, will start accepting pre-orders from Friday October 7, as shown on Apple Japan’s website. The iPhone 4S will then become available exactly one week later, on October 14 (as in… Continue reading KDDI (And SoftBank) To Accept iPhone 4S Pre-Orders From October 7
Google+ iPhone App Bug (unable to write Japanese/Chinese/Korean) Fixed
The Google+ iPhone App‘s huge but only affected for some countries has been fixed after about 10 days. As we reported on September 26, Japanese (Chinese and Korean as well) Google+ user who updated the app found that they were unable to put in their native language letters. The new version 1.0.5.2346 has come on… Continue reading Google+ iPhone App Bug (unable to write Japanese/Chinese/Korean) Fixed