{"id":7698,"date":"2010-03-10T01:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2010-03-10T01:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:29:05","slug":"naver-japan-starts-another-microblogging-service-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/naver-japan-starts-another-microblogging-service-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Naver Japan Starts Another Microblogging Service &#8220;Pick&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/naver-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/naver-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"naver-logo\" width=\"121\" height=\"23\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7697\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNaver Japan, a bridgehead of Korean search giant Naver, who is challenging Japanese market second time since 2009, released their new (Tumblr-like) multimedia clipping microblog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pick.naver.jp\/\">Pick<\/a>&#8221; [J].<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pick-front-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pick-front-page-400x381.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"pick-front-page\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7699\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Pick, user can post text, image, movie and geolocation. It also encourages users to clip others&#8217; post by 1-click &#8220;pick&#8221; button so &#8220;anyone can join the pick community even if you do not write\/upload anything. you do not need writing talent&#8221; (on release note).<br \/>\nThe above point is exactly where Tumblr is getting success in Japanese. Now Tumblr is seeking to gear up for Japan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/jobs\/community-ambassador-to-japan\">by hiring Japanese consultant<\/a>, but localization has not been done yet. Naver Japan has possibility to compete as it is not only all in Japanese UI, but also providing cellphone sites covers 3 major cellphone carriers. iPhone application is also planned, they says.<br \/>\nAnother twist is <a href=\"http:\/\/pick.naver.jp\/hitokoto\">&#8220;Yuumeijin no Hitokoto&#8221;(Celebrities&#8217; phrases)<\/a> page, which aggregates 6,000 celebrities&#8217; official blogs and twitter messages as a material for users &#8220;pick&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pick-celebrities-page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pick-celebrities-page-310x400.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"pick-celebrities-page\" width=\"310\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7700\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs the popularity of CyberAgent Ameba blog hosting was driven by holding thousand of those well-known people as bloggers, Japanese websphere is fond of TV stars more than in English. The page seems to just reuse RSS feeds, but may attract some web users.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=10000000000000136200\">Press release<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naver Japan, a bridgehead of Korean search giant Naver, who is challenging Japanese market second time since 2009, released their new (Tumblr-like) multimedia clipping microblog &#8220;Pick&#8221; [J]. On Pick, user can post text, image, movie and geolocation. It also encourages users to clip others&#8217; post by 1-click &#8220;pick&#8221; button so &#8220;anyone can join the pick&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/naver-japan-starts-another-microblogging-service-pick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naver Japan Starts Another Microblogging Service &#8220;Pick&#8221;<\/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":[590,808,2295,2538,3835],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-celebrity-blog","tag-cyberagent","tag-microblog","tag-naver-japan","tag-tumblr","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","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=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}