{"id":16605,"date":"2012-01-23T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16605"},"modified":"2012-01-23T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:43:21","slug":"yahoo-box-yahoo-japans-online-storage-service-one-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japans-online-storage-service-one-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan&#8217;s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japans-online-storage-service-one-million-users\/yahoo-japan-box-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16607\" title=\"yahoo japan box logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yahoo-japan-box-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs the country&#8217;s biggest website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Yahoo Japan<\/a> is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be successful: <a href=\"http:\/\/box.yahoo.co.jp\/promo\/\">Yahoo Box!<\/a>, the online storage solution Yahoo Japan <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japan-starts-online-storage-service\/\">launched in October<\/a>, belongs to the latter group.<br \/>\nThe company pushed out a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.yahoo.co.jp\/yj_pr_blog\/archive\/2012\/01\/20\">blog post<\/a>, saying that Yahoo Box topped one million users &#8211; just three months after release. A very solid number, given how crowded the online storage space is. Just two examples: Naver Japan is offering <a href=\"http:\/\/ndrive.naver.jp\/\">30GB for free<\/a>, while Dropbox is partly localized and already <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/nielsen-evernote-and-dropbox-see-significant-user-growth-in-japan\/\">popular in this country<\/a>, too.<br \/>\nTo recap, all Yahoo Japan ID users get 5GB for free, while all Yahoo Japan <em>premium<\/em> ID holders can use 50GB for free. 1,000GB are priced at 300 Yen (US$3.90) per month for premium members and at 1,000 Yen (US$13) for regular Yahoo Japan users.<br \/>\nAccording to Yahoo Japan, they have more users for the paid plan (51%) than for the free plan (49%) &#8211; this sounds high but is apparently the company factoring all premium members using the service.<br \/>\nYahoo Box is mainly used for images (65.4%), documents (8.2%), music files (3.4%), and videos (0.7%).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japans-online-storage-service-one-million-users\/yahoo-japan-box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16606\" title=\"yahoo japan box\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yahoo-japan-box-600x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country&#8217;s biggest website, Yahoo Japan is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be successful: Yahoo Box!, the online storage solution Yahoo Japan launched in October, belongs to the latter group. The company pushed out a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/yahoo-box-yahoo-japans-online-storage-service-one-million-users\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan&#8217;s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users<\/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":[995,2737,4145,4161],"class_list":["post-16605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-dropbox","tag-onlne-storage","tag-yahoo-box","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\/16605","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=16605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}