{"id":8921,"date":"2010-06-26T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2010-06-26T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T11:33:02","slug":"evernote-gets-bigger-opens-office-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/evernote-gets-bigger-opens-office-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Evernote Gets Bigger, Opens Office in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEvernote<\/a>‘s press conference was held in Tokyo on 23rd June, just one day before their second anniversary.
\nAt the conference, Evernote’s CEO Phil Libin, who was visiting Tokyo, announced a lot of new things for their Japanese users.<\/p>\n

1. Japan branch<\/h3>\n

They opened a 100% subsidiary, Evernote Japan. Evernote’s vice president Takeshi Nakajima, who worked in Sony Vaio team before, leads the local team. Japan branch is to hire 5 more employees this year and cooperate with US head office.<\/p>\n

2. New feature – Japanese OCR now supported<\/h3>\n

Evernote now can extract Japanese texts from printed letters and handwriting images.<\/p>\n

3. More and More Partnership with Japanese companies<\/h3>\n

In addition to the current partners like Canon(document scanner integration), Sony(Vaio pre-installed) and Eye-fi(bundled package),<\/p>\n

Package ditribution<\/h4>\n

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\nSourceNext<\/a> sells a packaged version of Evernote “Starter Pack”<\/a> on July 2nd.<\/p>\n

Internet portal<\/h4>\n

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\nNEC’s internet service provider Biglobe<\/a>[J] offers Evernote to their customers on its portal.<\/p>\n

Restaurant review web service<\/h4>\n

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\nGurunavi<\/a>[J], one of the largest restaurant review site to add “save to Evernote” path.<\/p>\n

Gadget integration<\/h4>\n

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\nA big stationary maker Pentel<\/a>[J] will make a new version of their handwrite-recording digital pen Airpen<\/a> [J] which supports Evernote connection.<\/p>\n

Evernote in Japan<\/h3>\n

Libin mentioned some interesting points on how Evernote is popular and getting attentions in Japan.<\/p>\n