{"id":12712,"date":"2011-02-09T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2011-02-09T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:10:07","slug":"facebook-featured-by-media-like-last-years-twitter-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/facebook-featured-by-media-like-last-years-twitter-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Featured By Media Like Last Year&#8217;s Twitter In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Diamond, Japanese business magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.diamond.ne.jp\/contents\/2011\/0129\/index.html\">featured Facebook for over 30 pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgbox-floatright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004IUK80K\/asiajin-22\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B004IUK80K.01._PC_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\u9031\u520a \u30c0\u30a4\u30e4\u30e2\u30f3\u30c9 2011\u5e74 1\/29\u53f7 [\u96d1\u8a8c]\" \/><br \/>Weekly Diamond 2011-01-29<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As you see, the magazine cover has a lot of Facebook icons which were asked on Facebook by the editors. The first page shows applied readers&#8217; Facebook icons, too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/weekly-diamond-facebook-icons.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/weekly-diamond-facebook-icons-400x209.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"weekly-diamond-facebook-icons\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12714\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe sections are &#8220;What is Facebook?&#8221;, &#8220;Facebook Guide to start today&#8221; and &#8220;How you individual\/company should use Facebook&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/facebook-and-rivals.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/facebook-and-rivals-400x350.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"facebook-and-rivals\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12715\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHow they feature the service, and make icon covers, are exact replay of what they did for Twitter one year ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgbox-floatright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0030H084S\/asiajin-22\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0030H084S.01._PC_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\u9031\u520a \u30c0\u30a4\u30e4\u30e2\u30f3\u30c9 2010\u5e74 1\/23\u53f7 [\u96d1\u8a8c]\" \/><br \/>Weekly Diamond 2010-01-23<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The rival magazine Weekly Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/enta\/book\/economist\/news\/20110121org00m020042000c.html\">took up Facebook as main<\/a>, similar articles structure with little less pages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imgbox-floatright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004H9J3V2\/asiajin-22\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B004H9J3V2.01._PC_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a8\u30b3\u30ce\u30df\u30b9\u30c8 2011\u5e74 2\/1\u53f7 [\u96d1\u8a8c]\" \/><br \/>Weekly Economist 2011-02-01<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Both magazine have comments from Taro Kodama, Facebook Japan country manager and Kenji Kasahara, Mixi CEO.<br \/>\nAccording to Socialbakers, the number of Japanese active users on Facebook showed better increase rate this year than before.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/socialbakers-facebook-japan-20110206.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/socialbakers-facebook-japan-20110206.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"socialbakers-facebook-japan-20110206\" width=\"501\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12804\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The Social Network&#8221;, the Facebook movie released in Japan in January, took <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/like-facebook-the-social-network-could-not-top-on-the-first-weekend-in-japan\/\">a bitter start<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/facebook-movie-the-social-network-tops-at-its-second-week\/\">topped at the second week<\/a> (then 3rd ranked last week), so the movie and these media coverage may affect well.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/facebook-will-possibly-fail-in-japan\/\">Asiajin \u00bb Facebook will possibly fail in Japan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/facebook-sudden-surge-in-japan-by-notable-web-users\/\">Asiajin \u00bb Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users<\/a> &#8211; On the chart above, you see 100,000 users increase in October on the chart, but this one did not continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Diamond, Japanese business magazine featured Facebook for over 30 pages. Weekly Diamond 2011-01-29 As you see, the magazine cover has a lot of Facebook icons which were asked on Facebook by the editors. The first page shows applied readers&#8217; Facebook icons, too. The sections are &#8220;What is Facebook?&#8221;, &#8220;Facebook Guide to start today&#8221; and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/facebook-featured-by-media-like-last-years-twitter-in-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook Featured By Media Like Last Year&#8217;s Twitter In Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12715,"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":[17,36],"tags":[1131,1956,2342,3615,3856,4064,4065],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-facebook","tag-kenji-kasahara","tag-mixi","tag-taro-kodama","tag-twitter","tag-weekly-diamond","tag-weekly-economist","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","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=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}