Japan’s First Social Media Focused Contest is Ready to Kick Off

The Team of the University of Tokyo Who Won the Grand Prize in MCJ 2011 You might wonder if there’s any competition about social media and apparently there’s one in Japan. After successfully holding the 2011 Marketing Competition Japan (MCJ) which was participated by 24 teams from 12 different universities, the MCJ committee is gearing up for… Continue reading Japan’s First Social Media Focused Contest is Ready to Kick Off

White Elephant From The Internet Bubble? Seven-yo Avatar SNS Is Shut Down

A Tokyo-based conglomerate of PC manufacturing and e-commerce retailing, MCJ(Mouse Computer Japan) announced it would shut down the company’s avatar SNS service Cafesta[J] at the end of this month. The service earns 600,000 unique users and 80 million pageviews in a month. Cafesta was launched by Powered.com (merged to KDDI in 2006), an ISP and… Continue reading White Elephant From The Internet Bubble? Seven-yo Avatar SNS Is Shut Down