{"id":474,"date":"2008-07-20T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2008-07-20T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T07:22:22","slug":"nico-nico-douga-goes-global-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/nico-nico-douga-goes-global-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Nico Douga goes global (almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-nico-summer.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-477\" title=\"nico-nico-summer\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-nico-summer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe once Japanese-only and super-successful video platform <a href=\"http:\/\/nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Douga<\/a> goes international. They announced Friday on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nicovideo.jp\/niconews\/2008\/07\/001414.html\">company blog<\/a> that they developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/de.nicovideo.jp\/\">German<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/es.nicovideo.jp\/\">Spanish<\/a> version of their service (comments and tags are separated from Japanese videos).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-german.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-478\" title=\"nico-german\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-german-400x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>German version<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-spanish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-479\" title=\"nico-spanish\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/nico-spanish-400x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Spanish version<\/small><br \/>\nThe international versions are already online. <a href=\"http:\/\/tw.nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico for people living in Taiwan<\/a> was launched as early as October 2007.<br \/>\nThis is great news for otaku and people interested in Japanese pop culture in Spanish and German speaking countries. Nico Nico didn&#8217;t release an English version, however. They didn&#8217;t state reasons but Nico Nico available in English would most probably spike up traffic significantly, generating higher server costs.<br \/>\nAs a German, I must say the translation into my mother tongue is far from perfect and not professional at all. I hope the Spanish version is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The once Japanese-only and super-successful video platform Nico Nico Douga goes international. They announced Friday on the company blog that they developed a German and Spanish version of their service (comments and tags are separated from Japanese videos). German version Spanish version The international versions are already online. Nico Nico for people living in Taiwan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/nico-nico-douga-goes-global-almost\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nico Nico Douga goes global (almost)<\/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":[17,38],"tags":[1711,2588],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-video","tag-internationalization","tag-nico-nico-douga","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}