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Mixi Real Check-in - World First NFC Tag Location Based Service
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 …
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KDDI Agrees To Assist Foursquare's Promotion And Support In Japan
KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier, announced [J] their new agreement with New York based location based service Foursquare, to collaborate on promotion and customer support of …
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Facebook Featured By Media Like Last Year's Twitter In Japan
Weekly Diamond, Japanese business magazine featured Facebook for over 30 pages. Weekly Diamond 2011-01-29 As you see, the magazine cover has a lot of Facebook icons which were asked on Facebook by the …
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Facebook Japan Takes Hard Line, Banning Pseudo Names And Requires ID
Today February 8, some Japanese web users who are influential in tech communities like Hatena and Twitter, started reporting they were locked out from Facebook. After trying to log in, they were taken …
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AKB360: Experience The Town On Your Desktop Anywhere
AKB360[J], is it a new group derived from popular J-pop girl band AKB48? Consisting of so many as 360 teen girls? Not at all. That’s the name of a web-based virtual metaverse that …
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Japanese Web Community As Person
Gijinka (anthropomorphization) is what Japanese anime/manga people love, and it often passes the language barriers. On giant anonymous bulletin board 2-channel, some amateur cartoonists seemed to vie …
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Who Are Japan's Top 10 Celebrity Bloggers?
Tokyo-based CyberAgent, one of Japan’s oldest web companies (founded in 1998 and currently listed with a $1.7 billion market cap), issued two interesting press releases earlier this week. On …
