LinkedIn Chairman-Rakuten CEO Talk Livestreamed Soon

LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman is visiting Tokyo to promote his book “The Start-up of You” Japanese version (“Staato Appu!”). Ustream announced [J] that they are to broadcast Hoffman and Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s talk tonight soon from 19:00 (Japan Standard Time). The talk theme is “Startup in Japan”. There are English channel and Japanese channel… Continue reading LinkedIn Chairman-Rakuten CEO Talk Livestreamed Soon

LinkedIn Japanese Localization Finally Done

LinkedIn has released Japanese language support as its 10th language on October 18, 2011. Here is the top page for visitors when you set Japanese as your prior language. LinkedIn Japanese localization plan was announced in September 2007 at first by its local partner Digital Garage. In this May, Digital Garage announced again the Japanese… Continue reading LinkedIn Japanese Localization Finally Done

Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage

Popular blog Netafull reported [J] that Risa Nakanishi (@BuzzTum), who has been serving for Yahoo! Japan for 12 years, sometimes called “PR Diva”, (as Yahoo! Japan has been the champion last decade) one of the center figure of Japanese web industry, left Yahoo! and joined Digital Garage(DG), the most known by its founder Joi Itoh.… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan PR Diva Moves To Digital Garage

LinkedIn Working On Japanese Localization

not “crazy” but “mental illness” tatoo TechCrunch Japan reported [J] on its Japan original post that LinkedIn is seeking a Japanese translation contractor. Japanese Translator (Contractor Assignment) Mt View, CA USA Mountain View, CA, United States Job Type: Contractor Primary responsibilities: Translate LinkedIn’s site to Japanese language version. Timing: This contract will begin on January… Continue reading LinkedIn Working On Japanese Localization

Yahoo! Japan starts LinkedIn like business SNS

Japan’s web giant Yahoo! Japan’s new challenge is a social business networking service, the name is CU. CU is a membership service based on invitation. The top page explains themselves as “CU (pronounce “see you”, no matched Japanese words so it is a neutral name for Japanese users) is a business networking service which supports… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan starts LinkedIn like business SNS