{"id":9631,"date":"2010-08-26T01:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2010-08-26T01:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:34:48","slug":"august-2010-japan-it-links-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/august-2010-japan-it-links-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/august-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a>) Second of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Continued to Part 3)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beebee2see.appspot.com\/i\/agpiZWViZWUyc2VlchULEgxJbWFnZUFuZFRleHQYo47WAQw.jpg\">Retired Lawmaker, Popular Twitter User 81-years-old Koichi Hamada Arrested<\/a> by breach-of-trust. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/555hamako\">He(@555hamako) has not tweeted much few days before the arrest<\/a>. Probably the first arrested Japanese Twitter user having massive number of followers<\/li>\n<li>funny photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotoripiyopiyo.com\/2010\/08\/%E5%88%BA%E9%9D%92%E3%81%A8%E6%8F%8F%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E5%88%BA%E9%9D%92.html\">Japanese word tatoo which means &#8220;tatoo&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toshiba.co.jp\/about\/press\/2010_08\/pr_j1001.htm\">Toshiba Develops Security-Aware Harddisk Voided By Power-Off<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1008\/11\/news035.html\">Moe Buddism Temple In Hachioji Releases Moe Theme Song CD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/geek\/archives\/51065458.html\">Chilled Panty Flying Off The Akihabara Adult Shop Shelves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/2dmtuj\">Fan Made Failing Mixi<\/a> by seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/first-offline-now-unstable-japans-no-1-social-network-mixi-in-trouble\/\">troubles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/susumu_fujita\/status\/20933300179\">CyberAgent CEO Says His Ameba Traffic Was Historic High When Mixi Was Down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stocks.finance.yahoo.co.jp\/stocks\/detail\/?code=2121.T&#038;d=1w\">Mixi Stock Was Down 3%<\/a> on the site down day<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isshoni-training.com\/goods\/index.html\">Android Exercise App With Virtual Girl<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YKgqjK6dRY\">demo movie<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/akiba.keizai.biz\/headline\/2070\/\">Akiba Keizai Shimbun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/affairs\/disaster\/100813\/dst1008132006013-n1.htm\">Smoke Generating iPod Stopped Tokyo Train<\/a>. The train delayed for&#8230; only 8 minutes. only becomes news in Japan. <a href=\"http:\/\/bogusne.ws\/article\/159361752.html\">Bogusnews, The Japanese Onion, Reported That Apple Announced It Was By Wrong Way To Hold iPod<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/22\/20100816\/ttc-oukin-uk-apple-japan-fe50bdd.html\">Reuter reported<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/koreacrunch.com\/archive\/korean-president-debuted-twitter\">KoreanCrunch reports Korean President Begins Twitter<\/a> &#8211; refers Asiajin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BluehouseKorea\">ex-PM Hatoyama Twitter story<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1008\/13\/news035.html\">Radio Simulcast Over Internet Experience Radiko Extended For Another 3 Months<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.mt.co.kr\/mtview.php?no=2010081519156031974&#038;type=1\">Korean Groupon Clone TicketMonster Sells Up 8 Million Yen In A Day [Kr]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewn.co.jp\/pdf\/pressrelease20100816.pdf\">Softbank&#8217;s iBookstore Substitution Viewn Reopens Officially, still only from WiFi [pdf]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20100816-00000021-mai-int\">North Korea starts Twitter, but ignored by everyone.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uriminzok\">@uriminzok<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2010\/0816\/3500\">Mixi Alumni Users Passed 5 million Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mext.go.jp\/programin\/\">&#8220;Puroguramin&#8221; &#8211; Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology To Open Educational Programing Webspace For Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/overtex.jp\/lang\/ja\/2010\/08\/13\/article-301.html\">Opt And Overtex Restarts Tsuado, Instream Tweet Ads<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/11295\">Mariezine<\/a> &#8211; Tsuado says that they modified their pay-per-tweet compliant with Twitter API policy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/08\/16\/045\/index.html\">Noritetsu Plus &#8211; iPhone App To Record Which Railway You Ever Ride In Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/shibuya\/entry-10621339429.html\">CyberAgent CEO Explains His View And Plan For Their Oversea Business<\/a> via @suadd<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1008\/17\/news066.html\">Seven Eleven To Finally Support Suica<\/a>. Now all major convenience stores support Suica and its siblings. e-Money defacto wars could end by this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/panasonic.jp\/viera\/iphoneapp\/announcement\/\">Panasonic To Run iPhone AR T-Shirts Promotion For Their 3D TV<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/kotoripiyopiyo.com\/2010\/08\/panasonic_3d_viera_20100818.html\">kotoripiyopiyo&#8217;s paid article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Article.aspx?R=1007874\">US Mobile Gaming Market Expected $800 Million In 2010<\/a>, whilst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/article\/2010\/06\/28\/68714.html\">Japanese Social Gaming Market Expected $874 Million In 2010<\/a>. Japan&#8217;s stats only includes big 3 social networks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/digital\/bcnnews\/BCN201008180012.html\">Sony Walkman Takes The Top From iPod For 2 Weeks<\/a> &#8211; Is this <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/if-iphone-were-no1-in-japan-sony-would-be-no1-music-player\/\">temporary<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kirik.tea-nifty.com\/diary\/2010\/08\/post-a23d.html\">A-list blogger Investor Kirikomi Taicho Express His Doubts On Celartem(Hercules Market listed)&#8217;s Oversea Business In China Existence<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/facta.co.jp\/article\/201009041.html\">Facta follows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mext.go.jp\/programin\/\">Mext&#8217;s Puroguramin Released &#8211; Programming Study Web Language\/Platform For Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamond-dining.com\/shop_info\/sengoku-buyuden\/\">Feudal Samurai Restaurant Bar Opens In Shinjyuku<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/shinjuku.keizai.biz\/headline\/996\/\">Shinjyuku Keizai Shimbun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/NEWS\/20100816\/351188\/\">METI Issued A Proposal To Government To Cultivate 40 Trillion Cloud Market By 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jp.techcrunch.com\/archives\/jp20100820mobage-town-open-games-matter\/\">Mobage-Town Requests Third Party Not To Make Game On Gree<\/a>. Gree CEO expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tanakayoshikazu\/status\/21647824464\">unpreseant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tanakayoshikazu\/status\/21648091551\">feeling<\/a> over DeNA by referring it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shareee.jp\/campaign\/\">Hikari Tsushin And SBI Begins Groupon Clone Shareee.jp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ticketomo.jp\/\">Mobile Groupon-Clone Ticketomo Renounced Before Open<\/a>. on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ticketomo\">Twitter<\/a>. maybe the first one given up among Japanese clones<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pc.colopl.jp\/pages\/wl\/welcome.html\">Million-Users Geolocation Service Colopl Releases Android Version<\/a>. In addition to feature phones and iPhone. via <a href=\"http:\/\/k-tai.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20100820_388296.html\">K-tai Watch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/business\/story\/0,3800104746,20418620,00.htm\">Mixi PR Says &#8220;We Cannot Talk Mixi Geolocation Feature Before Planned Announcement 2 Weeks Later&#8221;<\/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>(From Part 1) Second of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Continued to Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Retired Lawmaker, Popular Twitter User 81-years-old Koichi Hamada Arrested by breach-of-trust. He(@555hamako) has not tweeted much few days before the arrest. Probably the first arrested Japanese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/august-2010-japan-it-links-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-it-links","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","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=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}