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Bukupe: Might A Book Curation Site Be Alternative To Skim-Reading?
City dwellers are busy every day. They don’t have much time for reading books. E-books make you possible to enjoy reading without stopping by at bookstores. Skim reading, speed reading, …
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Japan Consumer Affairs Agency Warns Penny Auction Sites
Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan(CAA) [J] made public their administrative order [J, pdf] against 5 Japanese penny auction web services on March 31. Violation against “Keihin Hyouji …
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GMO-VP Launches "F-Commerce" Fund And Invests In Platform Developer
On Friday, GMO Venture Partners[J], an investment arm of Shibuya-based web juggernaut GMO Internet Group, launched a private equity fund specializing in investing in start-ups who are developing …
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February 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
February? Yes. I am sorry for big delay. The earthquake made me forgot this. March version will come late, too. Continued from (Part 2). Last part of February news which we did not write as a …
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Hatena Launces World Shortest 3 Letters Microblog Hatena Now
On April 1, Kyoto-based web service company Hatena released a new microblog service Hatena Now, which restrict users’ message at most 3 characters. Hatena called it “The world smallest …
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Ready For: A New Crowd Fundraising Site For Artists Launches
Ohma Inc., a Tokyo-based tech start-up known for semantic web-based who’s-who app Spysee[J], released a Kickstarter-like crowd fundraising service called “ReadyFor?[J]” this week. …
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TwitVoice Allows You To Leave Instant Voice Messages Via Twitter
Tokyo-based tech start-up Pido[J] unveiled the company’s first iPhone app today, which is called TwitVoice[J] and allows you to leave your voice messages via Twitter. It’s a free app, and …
