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Japanese Makes Unofficial Famicon(NES) Google Doodles
Twitter for Japanese is becoming a new 2-channel, where people are often challenged to be what funny things they could write/express. @miki800 called for an unofficial Google Doodle logo contest …
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August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Early part of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Cat Donuts This is the deflation. 29 yen …
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TeleBing - Microsoft Releases TV Guide App For iPhone/iPad
TeleBing, named after television and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is an iOS application for Japanese TV watchers to show TV program schedules. Microsoft Japan released it “to promote …
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Research: Japanese E-Commerce Sites Expects Twitter The Most For Social Media Promotion
Shibuya-based Mobile web oriented HR agency Sapotant issued a research [J] on what social media buttons Japanese e-commerce websites are displaying to their customers (n=100). 48% of Japanese …
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Japanese-Style Search-By-Blabla Ads Fail Sometime
This is a follow-up post for my monthly column on The Japan Times, Why do Japanese advertisers suggest Internet-search keywords?. There I explained why many of paper/TV ads in Japan are asking people …
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Presentation: The Web, Social Games And Mobile In Japan
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo. As I assume a large number of Asiajin readers should be at least a bit …
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Japanese Castle-town Building Game Shirotsuku Moves To Trading Cards
From August 2nd, Cave is beginning sales of “Shirotsuku Collection Card Shiro CA Part I” [J] (Shiro CA) as part of their castle town development social game “Shirostuku,” at Don Quijote, major family …
