By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mixi announced it added a new feature to Mixi Pages, its version of Facebook pages for individuals, companies or celebrities to broadcast information and promote themselves (Mixi introduced the feature in September). Owners of sites can now track the number page views, unique users, followers...
LinkedIn may have under half a million Japan-based users, but that didn’t stop the company to offer their user interface in Japanese. The new version went live on Thursday. LinkedIn’s managing director of Asia-Pacific and Japan Arvind Rajan said Japanese is the 10th language the site...
Japan’s biggest home-grown video sharing service and community Nico Nico Douga has gone HTML5, at least on Safari for the iPhone and iPod touch. While the main site still uses Flash on the PC to display videos, iOS users can now view clips directly on their browser. In other words, it’s...
It took them a while, but now social networking analytics service Socialbakers is also saying Facebook has hit the 5 million user mark in Japan (5,035,460, to be exact). What’s noteworthy here is that the site didn’t update the number for Japan for over 2 weeks (it was stuck at 4.8...
Facebook still has no iPad app, but Mixi now does: the company today announced that Mixi for iPad just hit the App Store. I just downloaded the app (for free) from the Japanese App Store (link) and gave it a spin. The app looks fine, allows access to all of Mixi’s main functions and is...
Mixi is expanding its smartphone offering. The company has announced it rolled out a Mixi application for Windows Phone, which can be downloaded for free on the marketplace. Mixi says the apps supports all handsets with Windows 7.0 on board but recommends Windows 7.5 for best performance...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry