{"id":8089,"date":"2010-05-11T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2010-05-11T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:07:41","slug":"april-2010-japan-it-links-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/april-2010-japan-it-links-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/april-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">(Part 1)<\/a><br \/>\nSecond half of April news which we did not write as a dedicated article.<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/builder.japan.zdnet.com\/member\/u514442\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/entry_27039120\/\">First Twitter TV Drama Synopsis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20100416-00000005-mantan-ent\">Twitter Drama&#8217;s First Episode Viewing Rate Was 11.9%, which is not so great<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/4334035582\">Yahoo! Japan News Editorial Chief Published A Book &#8220;How to make Yahoo! Topics&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1004\/16\/news060.html\">Yokosuka&#8217;s fishermen&#8217;s cooperative starts direct sales of fishery caught.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-np.co.jp\/s\/article\/2010041790140807.html\">Unemployed Killed Father And Baby, Because Internet Access Was Stopped<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/togetter.com\/li\/14650\">Twitter Drama Watchers Thought Twitter As Dodgy Dating Service<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/1frz8c\">one got e-mail caution from brother<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlab.jp\/\">Open Network Lab<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garage.co.jp\/pr\/pdf\/100413_lab.pdf\">Digital Garage, Netprice and Kakaku.com Opens Labs To Assist Entrepreneur Engineers Go Oversea [pdf]<\/a> &#8211; Serkan Toto <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/20\/open-network-lab-japan-gets-y-combinator-for-incubating-global-startups\/\">covered this on TechCrunch<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/TKY201004160214.html\">Dentsu to Establish Dentsu Entertainment USA to Develop Original Content and Expand Global Licensing Sales<\/a> [En], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dentsu.co.jp\/news\/release\/2010\/pdf\/2010041-0416.pdf\">release<\/a> [pdf]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jp.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idJPnTK039678420100419\">Yahoo! Japan and Macromill Talking On Yahoo Value Insight Merge To Macromill via Reuter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www16.atpages.jp\/nigore\/soft\/\">Ramen Tairiku Minimalist&#8217;s Windows Twitter Client For Office Workers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.questetra.com\/en\/info\/Cool-Vendor_20100420.html\">Kyoto-based Questetra Listed On Gartner&#8217;s &#8220;Cool Vendors in BPM, 2010&#8221;<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/COLUMN\/20100419\/347241\/\">Android Twitter Client Twicca More Popular In English Than Japanese (The 4th in a certain poll)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/venture\/news\/story\/0,3800100086,20412387,00.htm\">GMO Ad Partners Buys Ad Network NeoAd Company Sanoh From Unoh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajinomoto.co.jp\/aji\/ajiteku\/\">Ajinomoto also starts &#8220;link to Twitter&#8221; TVCF including the promotion with a Twitter bot called Aji-Panda.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/04\/20\/028\/index.html\">Just System Releases Shogun&#8217;s Mail Client<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiwake.go.jp\/news\/2010\/0009.html\">Japan&#8217;s government revitalization unit decided the following five companies as streaming broadcasters of budget screening live.  NicoNico, Stickam, Ustream, ShareCast and DMM.com.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klab.jp\/press\/2010\/100420.html\">KLab Closes Social Network Yumy Despites One Million Users Achieved<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanko.jp\/product\/av\/hdmi-lancable40.html\">HDMI Cable Extender By LAN Cable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/business\/update\/0420\/TKY201004200256.html\">Asahi Shimbun Starts Web Shinsho (Web Book)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dot3.jp\/html5quest\/\">HTML5 Dragon Quest (Firefox 3.6 Only)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forest.impress.co.jp\/docs\/review\/20100419_362337.html\">Illustration Embedded QR Code Generator QR-JAM (Windows, Freeware)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntt-bp.net\/pc\/company\/news\/100420.html\">Starbucks-NTTBP Free WiFi Hotspot Campaign For May<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bokeru.com\/kyonyu2\/\">AR Breast Enlargement (Was April Fool&#8217;s Prank, but AR part works)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ever-click.com\/\">World Networked Fraudulent Click Provider Surprised Net Users By Its Too Direct Explanation How They Make Your Site Access Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/mobile\/story\/0,3800078151,20412574,00.htm\">KDDI Starts Cellphone Drivers License Experiment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/insidears\/archives\/52302545.html\">100shiki (From Gundam) PC Chassis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pc.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/column\/20100416\/1024360\/\">iPhone Namecard Scanner App via @kurimax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/dewisukarno\/entry-10515677625.html\">Japanese ex-Indonesian Third Lady Dewi Sukarno Accuses Ameblo By Her Blog Comments Censored<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/axeeffect.jp\/360\/\">Axe Summer Day Dream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zasshi.news.yahoo.co.jp\/article?a=20100423-00000008-tkwalk-ent\">Lawson&#8217;s Evangelion flagship store in Hakone<\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/entertainments\/game\/100425\/gam1004251716000-n1.htm\">cancelled<\/a> because of too many fans gathered<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/business\/update\/0423\/TKY201004230411.html\">Sony To Terminate Selling Floppy Disk<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/sony_getting_rid_of_floppies_in_japan.php\">ReadWriteWeb covered this news<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/1ihocj\">Full Size Manga Ad Only With QR Code On Today&#8217;s Asahi Shimbun<\/a> &#8211; linked <a href=\"http:\/\/flow-er.co.jp\/sendai\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yokohama2010.wordcamp.jp\/\">WordCamp Yokohama 2010 officially announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1004\/26\/news025.html\">Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC To Standardize Next Generation Cellphone OS. Four Companies Occupies About 70% Of Japan Market Share<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/news_release\/2010\/04\/26_00.html\">release<\/a> by NTT Docomo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20100426-00000017-inet-mobi\">Kids screaming detection iPhone app<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/insidears\/archives\/52304399.html\">Square-Enix&#8217;s Japan-style iPhone App Takes Top On Several Countries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kao.userlocal.jp\/\">Twitter Similar Icon Search &#8220;Kao-twi&#8221; (only works within half an million Japanese users)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\">Ustream<\/a> Menu Localized To Japanese. <a href=\"http:\/\/ustream.jp\/\">Ustream.jp<\/a> covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/04\/27\/ustream-japan\/\">Mashable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csp.netratings.co.jp\/nnr\/PDF\/Newsrelease04272010_J.pdf\">NetRatings Compare Mixi\/Facebook, Mixi\/Twitter Users Volume [pdf]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpress.ne.jp\/view\/14695\">MyGengo New Translation API Released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/blog\/geeklog\/today\/2010\/04\/25\/entry_27039384\/\">CNET Japan (Part Of Asahi Shimbun) Trying To Close Readers Blog, Spurs protests <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.esuteru.com\/archives\/379715.html\">One Senario Of New LovePlus+, Virtual Dating Game, Requires You To Travel All 47 Prefectures To Complete<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gree.co.jp\/news\/press\/2010\/0428.html\">Gree Announced To Move Into Roppongi Hills This Summer. Same As Google Japan<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tanakayoshikazu\/status\/12993073339\">CEO&#8217;s tweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20100428-00000011-maiall-sci\">NTT Docomo To Sell Mini SIM For iPad &#8211; will iPad not be exclusive?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ana.co.jp\/amc\/news\/info_partner\/2010_1\/colopl\/\">ANA Allies With Mobile Geolocation Service Colopura<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/atmoney\/news\/20100429-OYT1T00435.htm\">Softbank&#8217;s Music Labels Purchase Cancelled<\/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>Continued from (Part 1) Second half of April news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. First Twitter TV Drama Synopsis Twitter Drama&#8217;s First Episode Viewing Rate Was 11.9%, which is not so great Yahoo! Japan News Editorial Chief Published A Book &#8220;How to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/april-2010-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-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\/8089","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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}