{"id":10462,"date":"2010-09-30T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2010-09-30T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T09:48:07","slug":"gree-now-allows-iphonesoftbank-users-to-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gree-now-allows-iphonesoftbank-users-to-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Gree Now Allows iPhone\/Softbank Users To Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gree.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gree-logo.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gree-logo\" width=\"234\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1376\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/breaking-grees-financial-report-suggests-its-japans-biggest-social-network-now\/\">largest<\/a> social networking service Gree today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gree.co.jp\/news\/press\/2010\/0930.html\">announced<\/a> [J] that their recently released iPhone version now added a &#8220;registration&#8221; feature today on September 30th.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Gree-iPhone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Gree-iPhone.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gree-iPhone\" width=\"501\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10464\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn <a href=\"http:\/\/t.gree.jp\/\">Gree iPhone version website<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/gree-releases-beta-version-of-iphone-page\/\">started as Beta in August<\/a>, now you can become a member of Gree network.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, it does not mean that iPhone users in other countries can communicate with Japanese Gree users, because the iPhone site registration also requires a softbank e-mail address attached with the Softbank iPhone.<br \/>\nAlso, the iPhone version website is close to Gree PC version, which only has 1% of total Gree traffic and does not provide any popular Flash Lite games promoted on TV commercial films. Just social graph, communities and avatars are there.<br \/>\nBut anyway, registration from iPhone is the one thing has been wanted by <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/half-of-japanese-male-iphone-users-keep-their-japanese-cellphone\/\">half of iPhone users who do not keep their feature phone<\/a> in Japan.<br \/>\nNo.2 Mixi have not realized it yet. Mixi&#8217;s iPhone app is a kind of Mixi &#8220;Viewer&#8221; and has not been improved much after the release.<br \/>\nMobage-Town owner DeNA <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/dena-begins-free-games-and-community-on-english-iphoneipad\/\">is running iPhone\/iPad based English social network MiniNation in U.S.<\/a>, but it is not available on Japanese iTunes Store. PC version of Mobage-Town was shut down recently, and <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/breaking-yahoo-japan-and-dena-to-runs-social-game-site-yahoo-mobage\/\">Yahoo! Mobage takes it over<\/a>. Yahoo! Mobage offers to all PC users an alternative registration method not by feature phone terminal ID but by credit card, and iPhone users can register as a PC user, but the contents on Yahoo! Mobage is Flash-based games so it is meaningless for iPhone\/iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s largest social networking service Gree today announced [J] that their recently released iPhone version now added a &#8220;registration&#8221; feature today on September 30th. On Gree iPhone version website, which started as Beta in August, now you can become a member of Gree network. Unfortunately, it does not mean that iPhone users in other countries&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gree-now-allows-iphonesoftbank-users-to-register\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gree Now Allows iPhone\/Softbank Users To Register<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[1441,1732,2324,2342,2370,3089,4161,4169],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-gree","tag-iphone","tag-minination","tag-mixi","tag-mobage-town","tag-registration","tag-yahoo-japan","tag-yahoo-mobage","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}