Social Network Service
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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 …
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"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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Mixi Friend-Finder Now Uses Gmail Info via OAuth
Japan No.1 social networking service Mixi, which recently passed 20 million users, announced that their friends invitation page now has “search friends from your gmail” function, in …
