{"id":115,"date":"2008-02-07T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T01:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/some-niconico-douga-videos-available-without-registration\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T01:07:35","slug":"some-niconico-douga-videos-available-without-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/some-niconico-douga-videos-available-without-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Niconico-douga videos available without registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicovideo.jp\/\">Niconico douga<\/a>, the 2007 biggest hit in Japanese web, is <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/niconico-douga\/\">a video sharing community service with enhanced overlay comments feature<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlthough it is popular among Japanese users, there are not many non-Japanese videos and comments, mainly because it requires user registration and it does not offer English menu. If you want to try it by yourself, Our writer Serkan Toto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyotronic.com\/2007\/11\/how-to-register-for-nico-nico-douga.html\">explained how to use Niconico-douga at Tokyotronic<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn December, Gihyo, a tech-oriented publisher (like O&#8217;Reilly in US) held a web technology meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/gihyo.jp\/event\/2007\/tech-meeting\/\">WEB+DB PRESS Tech Meeting<\/a>, and Niconico-douga company Niwango, offered to host the meeting videos available WITHOUT Niconico MEMBERSHIP. At this point, these 6 embedded videos (with viewers&#8217; comments, of course) are the only opened videos you can see how movied on Niconico-douga.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/gihyo.jp\/event\/2007\/tech-meeting\/data'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/gihyo-and-niconico.png' alt='Gihyo event on Nicovideo' \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlthough these tech talk videos are not mainstream type on Niconico-douga, you may be able to see how they are same as, and how different from other YouTube like video-sharing services. Number of comments are not so high, and font size and colors have not much variety when you compare with popular (usually Anime and\/or parody) videos on Niconico-douga popular video ranking, though. I am sure that services like YouTube and Ustream.tv can take the flavour in.<br \/>\nYou can also see what kind of tech presentations are made in Japan in Japanese. All speakers are top-notch web application\/service engineers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/hatena-a-web-company-with-geekish-tastes\/\">Hatena<\/a> CTO Naoya Ito, and ex-livedoor CTO, A-list tech blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/dankogai\/\">Dan Kogai<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niconico douga, the 2007 biggest hit in Japanese web, is a video sharing community service with enhanced overlay comments feature. Although it is popular among Japanese users, there are not many non-Japanese videos and comments, mainly because it requires user registration and it does not offer English menu. If you want to try it by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/some-niconico-douga-videos-available-without-registration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Niconico-douga videos available without registration<\/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":[17,29,38],"tags":[736,1791,2588,3962],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-service","category-video","tag-conference-report","tag-japan","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-video","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","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=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}