{"id":7511,"date":"2010-02-26T02:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2010-02-26T02:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:15:41","slug":"february-2010-japan-it-links-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/february-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (follows to Part 2)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Another Japanese iPad on&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groove-systems.com\/ip\/memo.php\">iTunes<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.jp\/intl\/ja\/doodle4google\/index.html\">Google Logo Contests By Kids, Japan round<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"English translations of popular 2 channel texts\">English translations of some popular 2-channel phrases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/k-tai.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20091217_336441.html\">NEC&#8217;s Android based touchscreen gear like iPad (December 2009 news)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1002\/01\/news099.html\">NicoNico Douga Testing Casual Games With Premium Members<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/NEWS\/20100202\/344096\/\">Microsoft, Yahoo and TBS Starts Web Drama C.I.A, Cyber Intelligent Angels, To Enlighten Internet Security For Teenagers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akiba.keizai.biz\/headline\/1810\/\">One-day Rubber Suit Maid Cafe In Akihabara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akiba.keizai.biz\/headline\/1812\/\">Hatsune Miku Rice-cookie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2fS39FitsoQ\">Pepsi<\/a> Rips Off <a href=\"http:\/\/plaza.bunka.go.jp\/festival\/2009\/entertainment\/001200\/\">Japanese Awarded Music Video<\/a>, some Japanese claim<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/9536\">Impress sold Digital Garage stock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.yahoo.co.jp\/yj_pr_blog\/12126090.html\">TV Over NTT East Optical Internet Supports Yahoo! Gyao Integration On STV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/9543\">Dentsu To Start Closed Beta Of Zapping Browse Site Gururin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>UCC(Ueshima Coffee) did <a href=\"http:\/\/togetter.com\/li\/4960\">the worst Twitter campaign with random reply spam from several accounts.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucc.co.jp\/gcs\/twitter.pdf\">Official apology<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkei.co.jp\/news\/sangyo\/20100205ATDD0304804022010.html\">Google Japan Is Planning To Increase Ads Sales Staff 50%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eir.eol.co.jp\/EIR\/View.aspx?cat=tdnet&#038;sid=772733>&#8220;>Mixi Announces Downward Revision &#8211; Mixi Appli Added Page Views And Server Cost, They Explain<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li>LDP represents Kotaro Tamura (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kotarotamura\">@kotarotamura<\/a>) hurl abuse at his Twitter followers and blocked them, <a href=\"http:\/\/togetter.com\/li\/5076\">caused flaming<\/a>. A week later he left LDP to join DPJ<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ksklog.blog108.fc2.com\/blog-entry-1020.html\">2-channelers play on US Yahoo.com password reminder character<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/4sqmob.appspot.com\/\">Foursquare for Docomo Cellphone Proxy Service by @hkk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/9521\">1 in 4 bloggers uses Twitter in Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news4vip.livedoor.biz\/archives\/51478926.html\">Funny And Amazing Japanese Vendor-machines<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rakuten CEO now mixes tweets in English. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hmikitani\/status\/8783785599\">&#8220;We changed the slides of all company meeting into English. Small first change.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hmikitani\/statuses\/8788336187\">&#8220;I encouraged our employees to use Twitter this morning:-)&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/column\/media\/046\/index.html\">Amazon Japan Aiming Japanese Books For Kindle In October 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/pickup\/20100203\/1030941\/\">Evernote CEO told Japanese media(Nikkei BP) that Too Open Or Too Network Oriented Service Fails In Japan like Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/9573\">KDDI America Invests Two American MVNO To Provide Cellphone Services To Immigrants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2010\/0209\/2562\">Mixi and Bandai Namco Starts Purikura Photo Transfer To Mixi Photo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/insidears\/archives\/52198031.html\">Another Freemuim Model From Japan- Free Hentai Game Maybe To Promote Anime Figure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/02\/10\/010\/index.html\">Koei Announces Their Flagship Game Nobunaga&#8217;s Ambitious Goes On Mobage Town<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.jp\/loveplus\/valentine\/\">Pocky(Mikado) Snack AR Campaign For St. Valentine Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sousousha.com\/release\/20100210.html\">MovaTwitter, Third Party Twitter Mobile Service, Incorporated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flak.jp\/maegami\/\">iPhone App Only To Cut 4 Girls Bangs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web-tan.forum.impressrd.jp\/e\/2010\/02\/09\/7275\">Rakuten President Also Becomes The president of Edy(BitWallet) they purchased<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/k-tai.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100210_348177.html\">Yet Another Government&#8217;s AR experiment in Kansai<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tmae\/statuses\/8884223249\">Rumor: Amazon Is Seeking Tokyo Data Centre For EC2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/feature\/20090128-945707\/news\/20100209-OYT1T00614.htm\">Cat Station Master Begins Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/digital\/internet\/SEB201002100059.html\">Fukuoka Tenjin Daimyo WiFi Association starts a Twitter campaign to revitalize the city&#8217;s shopping street.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bijint.com\/jp\/pages\/iphone\/dog1.html\">Bijin-Dog, beautiful dogs in Bijin-Tokei format<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.jp\/\">Ioix Begins English Geek Blog Forever Geek&#8217;s Japanese Version (They already run The Blog Herald Japanese)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/colony.livedoor.biz\/archives\/52005556.html\">CoroPura Starts CoroTabi, A Service Recommends Travel Packages To Their Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20408475,00.htm\">Japan Federation of Bar Associations Submits Statement On Google Street View Privacy to Google<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (follows to Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Another Japanese iPad on&#8230; iTunes! Google Logo Contests By Kids, Japan round English translations of some popular 2-channel phrases NEC&#8217;s Android based touchscreen gear like iPad (December 2009&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/february-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 1)<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[2099,2569],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-links","tag-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","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=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}