{"id":15942,"date":"2011-11-14T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2011-11-14T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:49:14","slug":"japans-no-1-e-mall-rakuten-trying-to-be-like-twitterfacebook-by-rakuten-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/japans-no-1-e-mall-rakuten-trying-to-be-like-twitterfacebook-by-rakuten-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s No.1 e-Mall Rakuten Trying To Be Like Twitter\/Facebook By Rakuten Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJapan’s largest online mall company Rakuten started promoting its unknown service Rakuten Profile<\/a> [J] since around October 10 to its 62 million members.
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\nThe service comes with Twitter-like “tweet”, following\/followers, Facebook-like “share”, your profile badge on Rakuten blog,
\nRakuten Profile seemed to launch without any release around August 9, 2011<\/a> [J]. There were no no news coverages recorded on Google News of August. Official Staff blog did not mention it<\/a> [J], too, though the staff blog is inactive and there were only three posts in August.
\nThen, 11th of this month, some of Rakuten pages started showing ads linked to a promotion page of Rakuten Profile<\/a> [J]. There, you can earn 5 Rakuten point by registering the profile service and connect it with your Rakuten blog. Everyone can receive the 5 point, which you may use for 5 Japanese yen (US\uffe04) discount.
\nThe service logo says it is still in Beta stage.
\nThis service introduction page<\/a> [J] covers what Rakuten Profile is.
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\nFrom it, Rakuten Profile is a place,<\/p>\n