{"id":668,"date":"2008-08-20T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T07:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2008-08-20T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T07:36:13","slug":"japanese-snsvirtual-worldgame-platform-meromero-park-goes-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/japanese-snsvirtual-worldgame-platform-meromero-park-goes-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese SNS\/virtual world\/game platform &#8220;meromero park&#8221; goes Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-669\" title=\"meromero_park\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microad.jp\/english\/\">MicroAd<\/a>, a subsidiary of online advertising giant <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/index.html\">CyberAgent<\/a> ($880 million market cap) yesterday announced they released a localized version of <a href=\"http:\/\/meropar.jp\/\">meromero park<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/meropar.tw\/\">Taiwanese market<\/a>. meromero park is an ultra-cute mix between a social network, a virtual world and a pet-rearing game.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_taiwan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-697\" title=\"meromero_taiwan\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_taiwan-400x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlthough the service was only available in Japanese until yesterday, 20% of users are reported to be Taiwanese, which reminds one of the popularity the once Japanese-only video platform <a href=\"http:\/\/nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Douga<\/a> enjoyed in that country before it eventually got localized as well.<br \/>\nBasic membership is free but MicroAD monetizes meromero park with display ads and by selling virtual items with which members have to take care of their cyberpets (i.e. food, accessories and clothes)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_park3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-671\" title=\"meromero_park3\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/meromero_park3-400x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn cooperation with a Taiwanese partner, MicroAd will (obviously) change the language in the local version, launch a new payment system and throw in a couple of Taiwan-only goodies (see picture above for characters not available in Japan, for example).<br \/>\nAccording to reports in Japanese media, MicroAd aims at taking meromero park to 20 different territories in Asia, Europe and the USA in the next 2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroAd, a subsidiary of online advertising giant CyberAgent ($880 million market cap) yesterday announced they released a localized version of meromero park for the Taiwanese market. meromero park is an ultra-cute mix between a social network, a virtual world and a pet-rearing game. Although the service was only available in Japanese until yesterday, 20% of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/japanese-snsvirtual-worldgame-platform-meromero-park-goes-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese SNS\/virtual world\/game platform &#8220;meromero park&#8221; goes Taiwan<\/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":[1711,3423,3990],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-internationalization","tag-social-network","tag-virtual-world","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}