Following yesterday’s news that Japan’s mobile social gaming giant GREE now hit 21.25 million users, our very own Akky Akimoto has done some research and created the graph you can see above for his Japanese blog. And as you can see, in Japan’s “social services” realm, Mixi (“Japan’s Facebook”), GREE and Mobage-town (another huge mobile… Continue reading What Are Japan’s Top 5 Social Services? Here’s A Quick Overview.
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Twitter Time Signal Bot To Draw Lines On Your Timeline
@kiti_tori (which means “cutting off” in Japanese) is a super simple Twitter bot gives you only one function, drawing time signal on your timeline, made by @okihuran, @icconico and @d3gk. By following this, when you scroll down your Twitter time line, you can easily recognize how old tweets you are seeing back without calculating small… Continue reading Twitter Time Signal Bot To Draw Lines On Your Timeline
Learn English On Twitter – At Least 5 Japanese Books For That
A Japanese blogger Bricklife pointed out that there are so many Japanese books on how to learn English by Twitter published. Twitter Eigojyutsu(English Technique) A Japanese and an English authors wrote up twitter conversations among fictional characters. The characters exist on Twitter so you may follow them and read. Trying to make English tweets The… Continue reading Learn English On Twitter – At Least 5 Japanese Books For That
Game To Defeat the Twitter’s Fail Whale
“Kujira-san no Game”(Whale Game) [J] is a tiny Flash shooting game, which takes Twitter and its notorious Failing Whale as motifs, made by a Kansai-based game hobbyist group Daiojyo [J]. You may be requires to unlock your browser’s pop-up blocker. Control your bird by mouse, and shoot by left-click. There will be a power-up item… Continue reading Game To Defeat the Twitter’s Fail Whale
“Tweets Begging” Is A Key To Accelerate E-Commerce Industry By Using Social Media
Tokyo-based zakka and hardware store chain Tokyu Hands[J] is now running a campaign which gives you additional reward points by tweeting begging for something you want. The store chain is known for working very much on developing social marketing services including “Korekamo-Net[J]” that allows you to search their inventory of the item you wish to… Continue reading “Tweets Begging” Is A Key To Accelerate E-Commerce Industry By Using Social Media
Japan Sec Dealers’ Assc Postpones Banning Individual Investments On Pre-IPO Start-ups
Japan Security Dealers Association proposed banning IPO of companies who have been fundraised by individual investors except the companies’ employees and founder’s family, and that news caused a sensation in this country’s tech start-up community. The association aimed at preventing fraud over unlisted shares, but the banning would make start-ups harder to go IPO if… Continue reading Japan Sec Dealers’ Assc Postpones Banning Individual Investments On Pre-IPO Start-ups
Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
Softbank Group’s Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (means “Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery”), which we reported last December, lets people send parcels only by e-mail address, i.e. without knowing the recipients’ real address, now start supporting emerging messaging endpoint, Twitter. When a sender shows their intention to send a package to another Twitter user, this service asks to the… Continue reading Package Delivery Only By Twitter Name Begins In Japan
Tweegle – You Look Googling From Your Boss, But Using Twitter Actually
A new web service Tweegle [J] by Usagifrask Co., Ltd. [J] looks very similar with Google Search, but it is a web-based Twitter client. When first searching tweeting, you are asked to give permission by Twitter OAuth. Then, your timeline is shown in Google’s search results page format. Your followings/followers pages are like Google Image… Continue reading Tweegle – You Look Googling From Your Boss, But Using Twitter Actually
Twitter Whale – Japanese Interpretation
The original is here by @emeruzwei @seagetch [Update] The drawing was done by another person. The link to the image is fixed, too. [Update 2010-07-20] Greasemonkey script to replace the real Fail Whale to this image for Firefox/Opera/Chrome by Smellman
Mobile Tweeting Yoga On Japanese Magazine
Somehow Twitter catches on so much in Japan. Like Japanese tweets recorded on national team soccer game on the World Cup 2010 4 days ago. Following the majority is one of the national character where social accordance is valued. Then, weird things are happening by people who are not necessary to get on the bandwagon.… Continue reading Mobile Tweeting Yoga On Japanese Magazine