Cyber Agent
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Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
Following to one of the Big 3 social networking service Mixi’s clone Mixi Voice, which made Evan Williams “unpleasant”, another successful, probably now most vital among three, …
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Japanese Blog Queen Migrates Again, This Time CyberAgent
Shoko Nakagawa, aka Shokotan, announced [J] her blog moving to Ameblo [J], CyberAgent blog hosting who boasts over 1,400 celebrity bloggers. Shokotan’s blog originally began in 2003 at Yaplog, a …
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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 …
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Does Marriage-Hunting SNS Treat Men As Women's Livestock?
On Wednesday, A Shibuya-based dot-com venture CyberAgent launched a free mobile SNS, named “Otokonoko Bokujo (a.k.a. Otoboku)” meaning boys pasture, targeting marriage-hunting females. …
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Pu-pe Girl/Poupeegirl - Online Dress-up-doll Community
Pu-pe Girl is a fast-rising Japanese social community site targeting females, currently 99% of its users are women. The social network is for a certain speciality, having barbie-like dress-up avatar …
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Apologies to Google: CyberBuzz Is Not Pay-Per-Post (so they say)
After top Japanese online tech news sites CNET Japan, ITMedia and Internet Watch reported Google Japan’s ambiguous apology, CyberBuzz (the agency hired by Google Japan to have bloggers place …
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Google Japan Buys Dirty Pay-Per-Post Links
Google Japan seems desperate in chasing the Mighty Yahoo! (see here for example). They are now using a tainted and controversial social media optimization method called pay-per-post, provided by …
