{"id":9189,"date":"2010-07-20T01:16:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2010-07-20T01:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:16:25","slug":"july-2010-japan-it-links-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/july-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First half of July news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Groupon Clone <a href=\"http:\/\/qpod.jp\/\">Q:pod<\/a> Occupies <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/21ofhy\">Yamanote-Line Train<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpress.ne.jp\/view\/15530\">Q:pod Is A Joint Venture By Pakureserve And Infinit Ventures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/06\/08\/026\/\">Rakuten Releases Rakuten-IE8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.47news.jp\/CN\/201007\/CN2010070201000619.html\">Tokyo Metropolitan Police Introduces The First Surveillance Camera Car By 160 Million Yen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/appserve\/senkyo2010\">Google Japan&#8217;s Upper House Election Buzz Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/japans-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya\/\">Japan&#8217;s First Banana Vendor Machine<\/a> [En]: follow-up article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibukei.com\/headline\/7007\/\">article<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/videotopics.yahoo.co.jp\/videolist\/official\/news_business\/pc8d8da453f66aa01d09c67f33b0deaee\">movie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/suiseisekisuisui.blog107.fc2.com\/blog-entry-1337.html\">Akihabara Evangelion Coin Locker<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nagasawa144\">@nagasawa144<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibukei.com\/headline\/7011\/\">Japan KFC Opens New Generation Store With LED lights, Digital Signage, Non-Fried-Fried-Chicken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.ameba.jp\/pigg\/contest\/result\/\">CyberAgent Builds A Content Winner&#8217;s Avatar Room In Real Life<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/service\/story\/0,3800104747,20416254,00.htm\">CNET Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1006\/30\/news060.html\">Pixiv&#8217;s Site Renewal Includes Microblogging Feature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zhinD6Mksqs\">Sieg Jimin &#8211; A Liberal Democratic Party(Jimin-tou) Candidate Agitates Net Users And 2-Channelers In Nazi Style<\/a> (which is a parody of Gundam character, but who is modeled after Hitler. &#8220;Sieg Jimin&#8221; starts around 5:33)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/c?g=ind_30&#038;k=2010070600283\">Microsoft K.K. To Rename Itself With Japan Microsoft<\/a>. Also plans to move to Shinagawa<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nicchu-gotokukai.com\/seminar0710\/index.html\">Baidu Japan President Chen Haiteng&#8217;s Seminer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyonews-webstore.com\/loveplus\/index.html\">LovePlus+ Hijacks Nation-wide TV guide Magazine<\/a> &#8211; LovePlus+ implements geolocation virtual prize system and some eager users are travelling around Japan for that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/c?g=ind_30&#038;k=2010070600351\">Docomo To Unlock Cellphone SIM Protection Next Spring<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/07\/06\/076\/index.html\">NicoNico Douga Musical To Feature Ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie As A Main Actor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mantan-web.jp\/2010\/07\/06\/20100706dog00m200035000c.html\">Shizuoka Gundam Officially Finished Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/yo_ko_ki\/status\/17848600342\">Softbank Group&#8217;s Employees Meeting Held At Budokan Stadium for 2 days, Top Idol group SMAP Sang<\/a>. Their owing pro baseball team Softbank Hawks&#8217; replica uniform shirts are distributed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/NEWS\/20100707\/350003\/\">Bing Japanese Version Sheds Beta Label<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/internet.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100707_379065.html\">Japan&#8217;s Digital Book Market Size Was 57.4 Billion Yen In 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/select\/biz\/news\/20100708ddm008020086000c.html\">Docomo To Get Into eBook Business<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/api_rate_limit\">Knowing Crippled Twitter API Performance On Twitter (Unofficial)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gamez.itmedia.co.jp\/games\/articles\/1007\/05\/news077.html\">Sexual Harrassing Akihabara Gender Fighting Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1007\/08\/news047.html\">Nikkei Online Version Paid Subscribers Passed 70,000<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/COLUMN\/20100706\/349978\/\">Japan Cabinet Office Announces Estimation Of Making National Dossier System as 610 Billion Yen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tou.ch\/\">Another Foursquare Clone Tou.ch Teasing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>JRA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jra-jwc.jp\/\">horserace game app<\/a> gets <a href=\"http:\/\/netallica.yahoo.co.jp\/news\/130451\">sensation.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchblog.yahoo.co.jp\/2010\/07\/yahoo_99.html\">Yahoo! Japan Updating More Than 10 Of Search Categories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.jp\/2010\/07\/tweetup-japan-2010-summer.html\">Even Williams Comes To See Japanese Users Again This Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2010\/07\/05\/43039.html\">Spending 100 Billion Yen In A Month&#8230; In A Cellphone Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inside-games.jp\/article\/2010\/07\/12\/43151.html\">Mobile Social Game You Can Work Menial Labor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nogutetu.com\/2010\/07\/post-207.html\">Japanese Groupon Clone List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/news\/html\/20100710\/t10015652431000.html\">Fujitsu And Microsoft To Ally On Cloud Computing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Nobuyuki_Idei\">Sony ex-CEO Nobuyuki Idei Begins Twitter<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ktsujino\/status\/18317301744\">Confirmed By Google Japan&#8217;s ex-CEO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/gp\/product\/486146188X\">A Book To Instruct How To Create Twitter-Bot Published<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.naver.jp\/press\/press_detail?docId=10000000000000136245\">Naver Japan Grabs Image Search Provider Position Of NEC&#8217;s Biglobe Portal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nec.co.jp\/press\/ja\/0307\/1605.html\">Biglobe Introduced Naver&#8217;s Movie\/Audio Search Since 2003<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/press\/2010\/0712_1.html\">CyberAgent Ameba(Blog and social services) Gets 10 Million Registered Users<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/content.ameba.jp\/ameba_anniversary\/\">The site for celebration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/09\/tech-tips-for-teachers-free-easy-and-useful-creation-tools\/\">Fukuoka-based collaboration drawing web service Cacoo is on NY Times education article<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/keyword.jp.msn.com\/bing\/\">Microsoft&#8217;s Bing Official Launch Promotion Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.searchina.ne.jp\/disp_iphone.cgi?y=2010&#038;d=0712&#038;f=business_0712_033.shtml\">Gree&#8217;s Stock Drops Sharply &#8211; Mitsubishi-UFJ-Morgan-Stanley Lowered Rating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/business\/T100705003408.htm\">Following to massive parcel delivery delay [En]<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/c?g=soc_30&#038;k=2010071201051\">Japan Post Bank ATM Suffers Over 5 Hours Trouble Nationwide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.idezawa.info\/archives\/51452264.html\">Livedoor&#8217;s Blog Media Blogos Puts Whole-car Ads On Yamate-line<\/a>. Groupon clone Qpod also did it (I cannot find photos). The cost for that can be at least $100,000. In past, <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/04\/14\/070\/index.html\">UQ WiMax<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wktokyo.jp\/blog\/?p=892\">Google Japan<\/a> did in that style for example.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/do.softbank.jp\/\">Softbank Masayoshi Son&#8217;s &#8220;We&#8217;ll do that&#8221; Tweets Are Listed And Progress Are Displayed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dw.diamond.ne.jp\/contents\/2010\/0717\/index.html\">This Week&#8217;s Weekly Diamond Featured Article Is &#8220;Twitter Marketing&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B7RWzSndo7jmYTY4MjZhNjUtNTkyZS00Mzg4LWJiNTEtMGYxMDYyNWI1Y2Iz&#038;hl=ja&#038;pli=1\">Government Funding Mitou Youth Project Explained In Manga [pdf]<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipa.go.jp\/english\/humandev\/third.html\">What is Mitou project?<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/idINIndia-50074420100713\">Fast Retailing(Uniqlo) And Grameen Bank To Set Up Joint Venture [En]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/news_release\/2010\/07\/13_00.html\">Docomo To Start Sp-mode To Cover Up Lack Of Regular Features On Smartphone<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/internet.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100713_380385.html\">Internet Watch<\/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 July news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Groupon Clone Q:pod Occupies Yamanote-Line Train. Q:pod Is A Joint Venture By Pakureserve And Infinit Ventures Rakuten Releases Rakuten-IE8 Tokyo Metropolitan Police Introduces The First Surveillance Camera Car&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/july-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 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":[],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-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\/9189","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=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}