Tag: Social Network Service

Rakuten To Shut Down 6 Million Users Zenryaku Profile

Nikkei reports [J] that Rakuten has decided to close its Zenryaku Profile, a social networking site having 6.4 million users and runs for about decade, even before the word “social networking service” established. The site was originally run by other company, moved under Rakuten when it purchased a company who owned the service. Different from… Continue reading Rakuten To Shut Down 6 Million Users Zenryaku Profile

“Metabirds,” An Alter-Ego SNS Service For Internet Residents Begins

Metabirds Co. [J] has begun an alias based SNS on “metabirds,” [J] a portal for internet denizens. “Metabirds” is a social network for using an “alter ego,” not just a real name or anonymity.  The concept is to express your alias identity “nicknames,” and “screen names,” as your own personal “sub character,” and this social… Continue reading “Metabirds,” An Alter-Ego SNS Service For Internet Residents Begins

Social Platform GREE Expands To 130 Million Users

GREE [J] has announced that their mobile device social platform in August has exceeded 130 million users worldwide, achieving 107 million users outside of Japan. The number of GREE’s users is a total of the Japanese “GREE,” combined with the social game platform primarily developed for America, Europe, and China, “OpenFeint,” whose user number has… Continue reading Social Platform GREE Expands To 130 Million Users

Toyota’s Marketing Arm To Hold Social App Contest And Cheer Motor Industry

Toyota Marketing Japan(TMJ)[J], a 100% subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, announced it would have a contest on ideas of new apps integrating social network platforms which especially intend to make people interested in motor vehicles, in association with NHN Japan, GREE, DeNA, Mixi and Yahoo.  Presidents of those companies will serve as the judges of the contest.… Continue reading Toyota’s Marketing Arm To Hold Social App Contest And Cheer Motor Industry

Mixi Partners With Renren and CyWorld – 3 Asian Major Social Networks Cooperate

Japanese Facebook Mixi announced [J] today that they are shaking hands with China’s huge social networking service Renren [Chinese] and Korea’s massive social networking service CyWorld [Korean]. The initial project among the three is to standardize their social application platform, which enables third-party social application providers (SAP, Mixi calls) to run their applications over three… Continue reading Mixi Partners With Renren and CyWorld – 3 Asian Major Social Networks Cooperate

Japan No.1 Cellphone Carrier’s Official Social Network Now Opened To Other Two

Docomo Community [J], a social networking service run by NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest cellphone carrier, started March 2009, is now available to other carriers, No.2 KDDI au and No.3 Softbank Mobile. Docomo Community was designed to let you share photos, notes and diary with your family and friends for free, driven by cellphone but also… Continue reading Japan No.1 Cellphone Carrier’s Official Social Network Now Opened To Other Two

SonyEricsson and Nokia integrate Mixi Mobile access into cell phones

Japan’s largest social network Mixi announced that a total of three mobile phones made by Sony Ericsson and Softbank/Nokia have integrated direct access to its mobile version. These are the Cybershot SO905iCS, the Cybershot W61s and the Nokia N95. The Nokia model is delivered in Japan as the SoftBank X02NK. It was announced that users… Continue reading SonyEricsson and Nokia integrate Mixi Mobile access into cell phones