{"id":10572,"date":"2010-10-06T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2010-10-06T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:18:10","slug":"new-location-based-service-mixi-sees-2-million-check-ins-in-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/new-location-based-service-mixi-sees-2-million-check-ins-in-first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"New Location-Based Service: Mixi Sees 2 Million “Check Ins\u201d In First Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMixi<\/a>, Japan’s Facebook, last month introduced<\/a> a new function, “Check-In”. As the name suggests, Check-In works much like Facebook Places does: press the \u201cCheck In\u201d button on Mixi Mobile (the site\u2019s cell phone version) to broadcast your current location to let your friends know where you are or share info on certain points of interests (\u201cspots\u201d).
\nAnd today big M reports<\/a> that it saw 2 million “Check-Ins” in the first month. The social network has 21 million users, and what’s interesting in this context is that 24.5 billion of the 30 billion monthly page views on Mixi come from its mobile version. I am not sure how many check-ins Mixi expected, but for a completely new service, 2 million sounds like a solid number to me.
\nUsers can “check in” by pressing the grey button on top and deciding who to share their current location with via the drop-down menu at the bottom:
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\nFacebook decided to switch on Facebook Places in Japan as the second country<\/a>, right after the US. Foursquare recently announced during the New Context Conference<\/a> in Tokyo that it plans to roll out a Japanese version in January 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixi, Japan’s Facebook, last month introduced a new function, “Check-In”. As the name suggests, Check-In works much like Facebook Places does: press the \u201cCheck In\u201d button on Mixi Mobile (the site\u2019s cell phone version) to broadcast your current location to let your friends know where you are or share info on certain points of interests… Continue reading New Location-Based Service: Mixi Sees 2 Million “Check Ins\u201d In First Month<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[622,2061,2342],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-check-in","tag-lbs","tag-mixi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","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=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}