{"id":6222,"date":"2009-10-28T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2009-10-28T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:24:57","slug":"yahoo-japan-to-shut-down-email-newsletter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/yahoo-japan-to-shut-down-email-newsletter-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Japan To Shut Down Email Newsletter Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merumaga.yahoo.co.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yahoo-melmaga-logo.gif\" alt=\"yahoo-melmaga-logo\" title=\"yahoo-melmaga-logo\" width=\"226\" height=\"40\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6223\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhilst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/174427\/geocities_shuts_down.html\">US Yahoo! dumps their free web hosting service Geocities with huge number of pages<\/a> painfully, semi-independent and more successful sibling Yahoo! Japan also decides and announces their a bit old-fashioned service, <a href=\"http:\/\/merumaga.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Yahoo! Merumaga<\/a> next April.<br \/>\nMerumaga is abbreviation of &#8220;Mail Magazine&#8221;, which means email newsletter in Japan (the word &#8220;Nyu-su Reta-&#8220;=&#8221;newsletter&#8221; is also understandable but far less familiar in Japan). So Yahoo! Merumaga is a free e-mail newsletter distribution service (&#8220;Merumaga Sutando(stand)&#8221; in Japanese).<br \/>\nYahoo! Japan&#8217;s announcement recommends their users to migrate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mag2.com\/\">Magumagu<\/a>, the biggest player in the field.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mag2logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mag2logo.gif\" alt=\"mag2logo\" title=\"mag2logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"35\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMagumagu prepares migration guide page for Yahoo! Merumaga users.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/magumagu-guide-for-yahoo-users.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/magumagu-guide-for-yahoo-users-400x297.png\" alt=\"magumagu-guide-for-yahoo-users\" title=\"magumagu-guide-for-yahoo-users\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs same as other countries, email newsletter is becoming less popular marketing\/publishing tool by emerging blog and social media. But it is still effective, especially for in-mail advertising.<br \/>\nYahoo! Japan, however, has not told any plan to close <a href=\"http:\/\/geocities.yahoo.co.jp\/\">Japanese Geocities<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yahoo-geocities.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yahoo-geocities-400x261.png\" alt=\"yahoo-geocities\" title=\"yahoo-geocities\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst US Yahoo! dumps their free web hosting service Geocities with huge number of pages painfully, semi-independent and more successful sibling Yahoo! Japan also decides and announces their a bit old-fashioned service, Yahoo! Merumaga next April. Merumaga is abbreviation of &#8220;Mail Magazine&#8221;, which means email newsletter in Japan (the word &#8220;Nyu-su Reta-&#8220;=&#8221;newsletter&#8221; is also understandable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/yahoo-japan-to-shut-down-email-newsletter-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yahoo! Japan To Shut Down Email Newsletter Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[4161],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","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\/6222","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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}