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Kisekae: The Dress-up Handset
[Translate] Today, the mobile phone is not just a device with functionality but is also a fashion accessory. We see many boys and girls who decorate their handsets with stickers, cover cases and beeds. Besides the device’s physical appearance, people also customize their wallpaper (main display on handset) with their favorite pictures. That same trend...
Tonchidot in TechCrunch50: A presentation worth learning from
[Translate] TechCrunch50 was successfully held. We know who the winners are. But today let’s talk about one of them that didn’t win. Tonchidot generated alot of fanfare in TechCrunch even though they didn’t end up on the podium. Well, to start with, the idea is awesome. Geotagging and using the broad viewport of iPhone as...
Unveiling The Japanese Mobile Market
[Translate] Welcome to the world of the Japanese mobile market, where mobile Internet usage is more popular than on the PC. Watching TV, playing music, listening to FM radio, browsing rich web content on your mobile for a few hours every day, playing high quality games, emailing instead of SMS text messaging, enjoying online shopping,...
Mixi Beta-launched a Twitter-like Service
[Translate] Mixi, a SNS giant in Japan with its registered member exceeding 15 million in the middle of July, quietly announced on August 4 that it launched “Mixi Echo”, a twitter-like service where people can write short messages and their friends can respond to them. The service is still beta and they are collecting feedbacks...
Nico Nico Douga, More Popular Than YouTube in Japan
[Translate] Nico Nico Douga (NicoDou), boasting its more than 6 million members and 170,000 premium users, is a phenomenal video-sharing site in Japan. Since its launch at the beginning of 2007, it’s been growing at an amazing speed, culturally influencing the Japanese society, and is now much more popular than YouTube (NicoDou takes 1/12 of...
How to Enjoy Mixi, The Biggest SNS in Japan
[Translate] Mixi, with more than 14 million registered members (as of March, 2008), is the biggest and dominant SNS in Japan. Despite the recent launch of Japanese-translated Facebook, Mixi will surely keep its dominant position for a while. Mixi and Facebook have a lot of similar functions as an SNS, however, Mixi has grown more...
Facebook Japan To Be Launched, How Can It Succeed
[Translate] Facebook, as they did with the German and the Spanish language, asked the Japanese Facebook users to translate its site into Japanese and gathered 1,375 volunteers (as of May 19) to contribute working on the translation. Today, after more than 30,000 translations have been submitted, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, came to Japan and...
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