Magazine-Digitize Agent Service Corseka Ends Its Short Life

Corseka [J] by Enigmo Inc., blitzed into Japanese digital magazine publishing system by a service “to buy and scan your buying paper magazine for you” named Corseka in October 2009, who immediately got bashed by traditional publishers who had never consulted beforehand and was forced to withdraw most of magazines in days, announced to close… Continue reading Magazine-Digitize Agent Service Corseka Ends Its Short Life

ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Got Compulsory Seizure Of 3,600 USD

On March 10th, Tokyo District Court broke into a flat of ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie, a fallen IT entrepreneur star whose arrest caused so-called “Livedoor Shock” in 2006, distrain upon his golf bag, wine cellar appliance, television and shamisen(Japanese guiter) by valued them as 330,000 yen ($3646) in total. Horie is appealing his alleged securities… Continue reading ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Got Compulsory Seizure Of 3,600 USD

January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)

Last week our RSS subscribers passed over 5,000, which is a good milestone. Twitter followers also increased to 400. Following @asiajin also will notify our latest articles. Thank you so much. Here is the first half of January Japanese IT/Web interesting news links we did not take as a dedicated article. (part 2 is here)… Continue reading January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 1)

Shoryuken! Livedoor Introduces World First Joystick Notation For Wiki

Livedoor Wiki has added a new notation [J] for gamers who want to share the game’s tips and tricks. If you write like this, &pad(ps3){6,2,3,plus,shikaku} then it will be displayed as this, For convenience, a game command editor is provided so you may press those buttons to generate notations like above. (all screenshots are from… Continue reading Shoryuken! Livedoor Introduces World First Joystick Notation For Wiki

Monetize Hacks #3 Report (part 1)

24th night at Roppongi Hills, the third Monetize Hacks meeting was held by some web directors from Livedoor and Hatena by welcoming 120 web directors and entrepreneurs in and around Tokyo. The first monetize Hacks [J] was called for web directors greeting and exchanging ideas around 15 people, the second one [J] was a group… Continue reading Monetize Hacks #3 Report (part 1)

ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours

Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began twitter and quickly getting thousands of followers in hours today. His first post [J] was “I started twitter. I’m thinking what to eat for lunch”. Later he reported he had eaten squid… Continue reading ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours

Livedoor Launches An Open Source Showcase

On Monday, Livedoor Co., Ltd.[J] launched “EDGE src [J]“, a new website which showcases Livedoor’s software and source code which is being distributed to developers under its open-source policy. The company set up an internal team and a project called “EDGE [J]” to develop software and services on an experimental basis. Since its inception last… Continue reading Livedoor Launches An Open Source Showcase

Livedoor Starts Video Search Service

        Livedoor started a video search service[J] on its portal, in association with Tokyo-based tech-venture Accessport Inc.   Livedoor adopted Accessport’s video search engine called “Woopie“, and it allows keyword-searching of more than 300 million videos indexed from more than 300 video-sharing sites worldwide.   The service’s search results reflect new videos uploaded to these sites within as little as… Continue reading Livedoor Starts Video Search Service

livedoor started “Geocities 2.0”

Japanese portal site livedoor announced today that they started a new free hosting service EDGE co. Lab. Developers/entrepreneurs can get hosted servers from livedoor and run their web service without charge. The conditions are; “Powered by EDGE” must be shown somewhere on the page livedoor OpenID and (if possible) livedoor Auth API need to be… Continue reading livedoor started “Geocities 2.0”

Online video and music rental deal worth $5.3 million announced in Japan

Movie and music rental store operator Geo said yesterday they plan to buy all outstanding shares from Posren (post rental), Livedoor’s online DVD rental service for 560 million Yen ($5.3 million). The deal is supposed to take place July 1st. Geo tries to close the gap to market leader Tsutaya, which operates Discas for renting… Continue reading Online video and music rental deal worth $5.3 million announced in Japan