{"id":10439,"date":"2010-09-28T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T02:40:13","slug":"be-amie-social-network-starts-off-with-5500-actresses-and-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/be-amie-social-network-starts-off-with-5500-actresses-and-models\/","title":{"rendered":"be amie: Social Network Starts Off With 5,500 Actresses And Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/beamie_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10441\" title=\"beamie_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/beamie_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat can you do when you establish a new social network in Japan but want to distinguish yourself from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixi.jp\">Mixi<\/a>, the current No. 1 (21 million members)? Answer: You start off by pre-populating it with a total of 5,500 actresses and models. That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isao.co.jp\/\">Isao<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscarpro.co.jp\/\">Oscar Promotion<\/a> (one of Japan&#8217;s biggest artist agencies), the makers behind this new service, did.<br \/>\nDubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/beamie.jp\/\">&#8220;be amie&#8221;<\/a>, the social network was launched on September 1. Oscar Promotion says the main concept behind the service is &#8220;beauty&#8221;, apparently referring to the first batch of members. All artists under contract with the agency have a profile page, will write diaries, submit videos and also sell original goods on the site.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s interesting is that &#8220;regular&#8221; members can befriend their &#8220;stars&#8221; through be amie, next to joining their communities. It&#8217;s also possible to request models or artists for bookings directly on the profile page of the person in question.<br \/>\nThis screenshot shows the community page of super-popular actress and model Ueto Aya (click to enlarge):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Picture-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10442\" title=\"Picture 5\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Picture-5-400x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe service appeals to the vanity of people, giving regular members the chance to set up profile pages that basically look like the ones the artists have &#8211; in a collected setting. be amie also enables users to &#8220;recommend&#8221; other users to talent scouts, meaning all regular members (theoretically) have the chance to get on their radar.<br \/>\nThe service aims at counting no less than 10 million users within the next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do when you establish a new social network in Japan but want to distinguish yourself from Mixi, the current No. 1 (21 million members)? Answer: You start off by pre-populating it with a total of 5,500 actresses and models. That&#8217;s what Isao and Oscar Promotion (one of Japan&#8217;s biggest artist agencies), the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/be-amie-social-network-starts-off-with-5500-actresses-and-models\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">be amie: Social Network Starts Off With 5,500 Actresses And Models<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[402,1754,2773],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-be-amie","tag-isao","tag-oscar-promotion","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}