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NHK Website Celebrates 15th Anniversary With Biz Stone And Jun Murai Interviews
NHK Online, Japan’s public broadcasting organization makes a special website about its 15 years internet activities. The NHK Online History, a Flash contents, is quite interesting as it covers …
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Will DeNA Crack The Japanese Code For International Expansion?
DeNA, the company behind one of the big three social networking sites in Japan, Mobage-Town (20m users in Japan), cannot be clearer on its current strategy. It’s called international expansion. …
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Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users
Japan is known as one of the most difficult countries for Facebook. However, there has been sudden Facebook buzz happening in Japanese websphere now for about a week. Tokyo-based social media …
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Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up in Akihabara, Tokyo
On Saturday at Ustream Studio Akiba[J], a livecast facility in an Internet cafe in Akihabara, we had a readers meet-up in Tokyo for the first time in approx. 2.5 years. The meet-up started with …
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Event Wrap-up: Asiajin Readers Meet-up in Singapore
I was visiting Singapore in late-September for attending Accelerate 2010 and meeting with great techpreneurs. Thanks to Bernard Leong from Chalkboard, a Singapore-based start-up providing retail …
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September 2010 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. KDDI au’s First Android Sale …
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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 …
