I gave up counting how many Twitter books are published in Japan. There seem to be reaching 500 soon on Amazon Japan [J]. As we already covered before, more than 5 books suggest to learn English by Twitter, of course there are Twitter manga-s. It looks like that if you include “Twitter” in your book… Continue reading New Book: Twitter Beginning Guide For Nuturing Mom
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Pop Up Camera – iPhone App Makes Your Photo Pseudo 3D
[Free download until Sunday 24th] Pop Up Camera by Kamakura-based web development company Kayac Inc. is an iPhone camera application enables you to make semi-3D effect photo. You take a photo, then touch area on the photo where you want to pop up. Then you will get animated image file. Here is a sample from… Continue reading Pop Up Camera – iPhone App Makes Your Photo Pseudo 3D
SeatNext – Create Meetup Record With Twitter Icons
SeatNext is a Japanese web service for people who attended a gathering to make a seating chart with Twitter icons, developed by a Niigata-based programmer civic [J](@civic). You may add a Twitter icon one by one, or as a space-separated-list. Then you layout icons as the attendees seated. You can also add text labels for… Continue reading SeatNext – Create Meetup Record With Twitter Icons
Twitter Japan Releases Email Notification
Twitter Japan is finally getting up to speed on how people communicate with their mobile phones in Japan. Contrary to what people think, SMS does exist in Japan. It’s just not used. It never had a real chance, having been buried by e-mail, which became the standard texting communication channel between users on their keitai.… Continue reading Twitter Japan Releases Email Notification
Answer For What is PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！ On Twitter Trending Topics
The strange phrase “PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！” appeared on the Twitter Trending Topic sometime early morning in UTS October 4th. (morning to night in Japan Standard Time) That phrase itself is mix of English and Japanese, which means …PROJECTION CLOCK] for 2 persons”! It is a part of full sentence in a marketing campaign run by Nifty,… Continue reading Answer For What is PROJECTION CLOCK】2名様」！ On Twitter Trending Topics
A Japanese Implies He Began Today’s Twitter XSS Atack Storm
[Update] Title changed As TechCrunch reported, the security attack letting twitter.com login users to post any tweets has been spread within hours all over the twittersphere. Because the attack utilizes the Twitter’s cross site scripting bug and Javascript onmouseover, it was easy to force people using Twitter web clients (both PC and mobile) to re-post… Continue reading A Japanese Implies He Began Today’s Twitter XSS Atack Storm
Twitter Explained In Two Manga Comics
Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku(I Tweeted “Now!” at the Heart of Mitaka) The manga “Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku” was published by Shogakukan in July 2010 drawn by comic essay cartoonist Yoko Gendai, which is likely the first Twitter manga in Japan, and so… Continue reading Twitter Explained In Two Manga Comics
Which Twitter Clients Is Japan Using? Here Are The Top 20.
Twitter is Japan country. Just take these stats: it’s estimated that currently around 10 million Japanese are registered and that 16.3% of all web users in this country tweet (considerably more than the 9.8% in the US). 14% of all tweets out there are in Japanese, more than Portuguese (9%) or Spanish (4%). But what… Continue reading Which Twitter Clients Is Japan Using? Here Are The Top 20.
Twitter Following List PuyoPuyo Animation
Recently Mashable reported that a twitter user @guygo’s bird on his following list. That one is a static picture, but there was an animation one by a Japanese user @tkpuyop in this March. Unfortunately, the account was suspended quickly but he recorded how it worked. @guygo’s account is still kept on even after known by… Continue reading Twitter Following List PuyoPuyo Animation
Twitter Bug Allows You Long Long Tweet (on browser)
[Update] The bug seems to be fixed and now Mashable and TechCrunch reported it (though they could not find the @zakuro563’s first tweet but someone’s long tweet at 3 hours later). Some Japanese Twitter users found a Twitter bug around 140-letters limitation Saturday night (local time. JST). My test reproduced it like this. By the… Continue reading Twitter Bug Allows You Long Long Tweet (on browser)