Mixi
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E-mail-only friend delivery springs up in Japan
Mixi Nengajou (new year greeting card) is not the only emerging service tries to turn online friendship into real items delivery. This is too much of a coincidence that Mixi, Softbank (owns 40% of …
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Mixi Intoduces New Features of "MyMixi of MyMixi" and "Footprint of My Own"
Japan’s most popular SNS “Mixi” introduced new two feature deployments today, especially on so-called “footprint” feature. You may have your own site on Mixi, and …
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Mixi Nengajou sends Real New Year Cards to your Social Network Friends
Mixi launched Mixi Nengajou (Nengajou = new year greeting card), on which user can send a real(=paper) greeting card to your MaiMiku(My Mixi = online friend) WITHOUT knowing their real address. You …
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Big shake-up at Mixi: Apps possible, no invitations anymore, kids OK
Today Mixi, Japan’s biggest social network, sent out a press release (J), announcing some of the biggest changes the site has seen in recent months. The company of the same name also held a …
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Branding social networks the Japanese way: Put 'em on juice bottles and noodle cups
After having drawn 15 million members to the site (or approximately 1 in 6 Internet users in Japan), Nippon’s biggest social network Mixi now thinks the time has come for some offline …
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Mixi gets pre-installed on all SoftBank phones, starting with the Sharp 931SH
It seems that Japan’s biggest SNS Mixi and the country’s third largest cell phone carrier SoftBank are getting closer and closer. Following the announcement of the general partnership in …
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Shake-up in Japan's mobile web: Mixi, MySpace, Mobage, Yahoo, Dwango and SoftBank Mobile collaborate
The mobile web is huge in Japan, meaning the alliance between Japanese Internet powerhouses Dwango, Mixi, MySpace Japan, Mobage-town, Yahoo and telecommunications company SoftBank Mobile announced on …
