{"id":1259,"date":"2008-11-01T23:39:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T14:39:34","slug":"shake-up-in-japans-mobile-web-mixi-myspace-mobage-yahoo-dwango-and-softbank-mobile-collaborate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/shake-up-in-japans-mobile-web-mixi-myspace-mobage-yahoo-dwango-and-softbank-mobile-collaborate\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake-up in Japan&#8217;s mobile web: Mixi, MySpace, Mobage, Yahoo, Dwango and SoftBank Mobile collaborate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mixi-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-504\" title=\"mixi-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mixi-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mobage_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32\" title=\"Mobage town logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mobage_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"27\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/yahoo-japan-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"Yahoo! Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/yahoo-japan-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/myspace_logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1261\" title=\"myspace_logo1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/myspace_logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/softbank.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1262\" title=\"softbank\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/softbank.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logo_dwango.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1126\" title=\"logo_dwango\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/logo_dwango.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe mobile web is huge in Japan, meaning the alliance between Japanese Internet powerhouses <a href=\"http:\/\/info.dwango.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Dwango<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\">Mixi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.myspace.com\/\">MySpace Japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dena.jp\/en\/work\/mobile.html\">Mobage-town<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.co.jp\">Yahoo<\/a> and telecommunications company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankmobile.co.jp\/en\/\">SoftBank Mobile<\/a> announced on Thursday has to be taken very seriously.<br \/>\nDetails are rather scarce at this point but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankmobile.co.jp\/ja\/news\/press\/2008\/20081030_05\/index.html\">SoftBank, for example, says<\/a> [J] Dwango will provide content from its super-successful video portal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Douga<\/a> and that additional partnerships are currently being considered.<br \/>\nTo kick off the alliance, SoftBank is organizing a <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.yahoo.co.jp\/sp\/widgets\/contest\">widget coding contest<\/a> [J] and will start accepting applications later this month. The winner will be announced in May next year and gets 2 Mio. Yen (20.000 USD, 16.000 Euros).<br \/>\nI am not really sure if this alliance will really change anything at all for users and the web industry itself but if Japan&#8217;s No 1, 2, 4, 7 and 19 (Yahoo, Softbank, DeNA\/Mobage-town, Mixi and Dwango) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/02\/top-20-of-japans-most-valuable-web-companies\/\">list of the most valuable web companies participate<\/a> something interesting might come out of it.<br \/>\nAlthough the initiative is limited to the mobile web, an alliance between giants like that is unheard of outside Japan or am I mistaken?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile web is huge in Japan, meaning the alliance between Japanese Internet powerhouses Dwango, Mixi, MySpace Japan, Mobage-town, Yahoo and telecommunications company SoftBank Mobile announced on Thursday has to be taken very seriously. Details are rather scarce at this point but SoftBank, for example, says [J] Dwango will provide content from its super-successful video&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/shake-up-in-japans-mobile-web-mixi-myspace-mobage-yahoo-dwango-and-softbank-mobile-collaborate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shake-up in Japan&#8217;s mobile web: Mixi, MySpace, Mobage, Yahoo, Dwango and SoftBank Mobile collaborate<\/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":[1000,2342,2370,2493,3436,4151,4161],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-dwango","tag-mixi","tag-mobage-town","tag-myspace","tag-softbank","tag-yahoo","tag-yahoo-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}