{"id":12125,"date":"2011-01-23T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12125"},"modified":"2011-01-23T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:08:16","slug":"january-2011-japan-it-links-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/january-2011-japan-it-links-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/january-2011-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">(Part 1)<\/a>. Middle part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article.  Continued to <a href=\"\">(Part 3)<\/a><br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=179478012074175&#038;set=a.176304732391503.35982.175694192452557\">Weekly Diamond To Feature Facebook, Run The Same Icon Campaign<\/a> As Their <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/weekly-diamond-featured-twitter-for-40-pages-reprinted\/\">Twitter Featuring Issue Last January<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piku.jp\/p\/press-20110111\">Piku Issues Their Rule On Flash Coupon Business<\/a> &#8211; The first Groupon clone company is trying to shake off the bad reputation caused by Groupon Japan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technolog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/01\/07\/5788359-ces-in-full-color\">Cerevo CEO photo on MSNBC CES report<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/article\/2011\/01\/11\/73357.html\">2Dfacto &#8211; Docomo And DNP&#8217;s New eBook Service Launches on 12th<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/1748_009225.html\">Tsunami Got 42 mil Yen Investment &#8211; Cabawars Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingjim.co.jp\/sp\/shotnote\/\">Kingjim Suggests Memopads And iPhone App To Digitize Your Handwriting Memo<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/bizmakoto.jp\/bizid\/articles\/1101\/12\/news053.html\">ITMedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/20110112nenga\">Mixi Apologizes 0.14% Of New Year&#8217;s Greeting Cards They Had Soled Were Undelivered By Software Glitch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westin-tokyo.co.jp\/initiative\/index.html#140\">Westin Hotel Apologizes On Guests Privacy Leak Over Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webplus.com\/\">Webplus<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/gamebiz.jp\/?p=1129\">set up a fund to invest in IT industry in Fukuoka.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/mimiuchi-the-twitter-service-helps-you-confirm-mutual-love-wo-confession\/\">Mimiuchi<\/a>&#8216;s [En]<a href=\"http:\/\/shitauchi.neetla.be\/\">parody service &#8211; Shitauchi: nofities you when there are mutual hater with you<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/affairs\/crime\/110113\/crm1101131957040-n1.htm\">Affiliate Blogger Arrested By Pointing Non-Related Family As A Serial Raper-Murderer&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/press\/2011\/0113_2.html\">CyberAgent Ventures To Offer An Incubation Office At Central Tokyo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2011\/01\/13\/2307_009476.html\">Ad distribution optimizer Kauli partners with Septeni.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2011\/01\/13\/1905_009474.html\">Brasyna to launch a social commerce platform for overseas users.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kafun-live.jp\">NTT DoCoMo launches real-time pollen spread updates based on data from sensors at cellphone base stations.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socialnews.rakuten.co.jp\/\">Rakuten Had Silently Started Social News Site Last Month<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kensuu\">@kensuu<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/hotnews.infoseek.co.jp\/\">Rakuten already has Infoseek Min&#8217;nano News(people&#8217;s news)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1101\/14\/news049.html\">Japanese Local Newspaper Asks Applicants For Otaku Experts Post To Critique Anime Character Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/release\/10476329\/\">Japanese startup Toeny starts e-book market of self-published comic book on February 4<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toenygl.com\/TOENYhomupeji\/TOENYtoppupeji.html\">Toeny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/service\/20425037\/\">Amazon Japan To Add Two Distribution Centres In Aichi And Miyagi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isshoni-training026.com\/special\/index.html\">Bath Stretch Training DVD With Anime Girls Runs Free Public Bath Campaign Only For Male Fans<\/a>. I cannot understand what they think<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pirori2ch.com\/archives\/1421149.html\">2-Chanellers Tracking Down A Hotel Staff Who Tweeted Celebrities Privacy Explained<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/press\/2011\/0114_1.html\">40% Of Japanese Social Media Users Think Facebook Will Catch On In 2011, CyberBuzz Research<\/a>. 1\/3 Knows &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; Movie, 1\/2 Says They May Watch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/getnews.jp\/archives\/93488\">Another Groupon Trouble &#8211; A Restaurant Says Tables Are Full For The Next 6 Months Until The Coupon Deadline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8BmgtMKFbY\">Kinect Controlling Real Humanoid Robot<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/vsido.uijin.com\/\">V-Sido<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp\/article?a=20110115-00000000-diamond-bus_all\">Tosho Printing starts e-book sales that may give you discount in accordance with  the number of retweets.<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bookoupon.jp\/\">http:\/\/bookoupon.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=10000000000000136345\">Naver Runs Whole-train Ads On Yamanote-Line For Its Microblog Naver Cafe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/odawara-hakone.keizai.biz\/headline\/477\/\">plastic food sample of chocolates decorated on an iPhone cover.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kakaku.com\/research\/report\/048\/index.html\">Kakaku.com Research Reports 29.3% Of Japanese Now Own Smartphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp\/~yefeng\/cft.html\">Waseda Univ. Student Yefeng Liu Is Developing Mechanical-Turk Style Travel Helper For Foreigners Visiting Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/25th.dominos.jp\/ikemen\/\">2-Channelers Cyberbullying On Domino&#8217;s Pizza Hansome Deliveryman Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/job.html?jvi=o4NoVfwU,Job\">Twitter&#8217;s CJK Search Engineer Hiring Page Was Removed<\/a> &#8211; maybe they found the right staff?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantrends.com\/coca-cola-super-vending-machines-give-cash-prizes\/\">Coca Colas Super Vending Machine campaign<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/press\/2011\/0118_1.html\">CyberAgent&#8217;s subsidiary CA mobile released Giolocation SNS &#8220;ally&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twi-qr.com\/\">QR Code Generator Embeds Your Twitter Icon In It<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/matomeno.in\/\">Matomeno Interior<\/a> Launches <a href=\"http:\/\/matomeno.com\/\">An English Version<\/a> [En] via <a href=\"http:\/\/ginkgraph.net\/articles\/web\/matomeno.html\">Ginkgo Telegraph<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2011\/01\/18\/46927.html\">Konami&#8217;s Another Mobile Virtual Dating Game Lining Up 100 Girls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2011\/01\/18\/46930.html\">A New iPhone Pacman Game To Feed Tweets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.internet.com\/allnet\/20110119\/1.html\">NTT DoCoMo To Launch A Cloud-Based Groupware Service For Enterprise Smartphone Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/domo.tonchidot.com\/\">Tonchi Dot&#8217;s New Service Domo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2011\/0119\/4179\">Mixi Coworks With KDDI To Check User&#8217;s Age<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/service\/20425205\/\">Gree Announces The Same Age Confirmation Service<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kddi.com\/corporate\/news_release\/2011\/0119a\/index.html\">KDDI side release. DeNA will follow<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2011\/0119\/4179\">Mixi&#8217;s release includes info on their monitoring team location and size<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandomo.jp\/\">Brandomo<\/a> &#8211; a Japanese Brand4friends competitor via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsuhanshinbun.com\/archive\/2011\/01\/post-615.html\">Tsuhan Shimbun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/homesparty\">Campaign from realtor Homes features an interactive Youtube movie where you move around in three dimensional space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturenow.jp\/news\/2011\/01\/19\/2053_009491.html\">Next (The Homes Company) Bought Littel, A Technology Startup From The Univ. Of Tokyo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dena.jp\/press\/2011\/01\/yahoo-3.php\">Mobage Town And Yahoo! Mobage Now Can Be Paid From Online Banks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/watch\/sm13253205\">A NicoNico Video satirizing the osechi case with Hatsune Miku&#8217;s vocal.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Weekly Diamond To Feature Facebook, Run The Same Icon Campaign As Their Twitter Featuring Issue Last January Piku Issues Their Rule On Flash Coupon&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/january-2011-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-it-links","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125","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=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}