By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Not many people even in Japan know that Yahoo Japan is running a social network: dubbed Yahoo Days, the social network is embedded in the Yahoo Japan ecosystem of sub-sites and was established in 2006 (its used to be called Yahoo! 360° in the first few months). But now Yahoo Japan announced their...
In many way, social networking in Japan is very much different from social networking in other regions. Mixi, Japan’s largest real identity social network, always had one distinct function: ashi ato, the ability to check which other Mixi user visited one’s profile at which time. This...
Digital Garage subsidiary Wheel has announced a new Twitter application for Android phones distributed through NTT Docomo, Japan’s biggest mobile carrier: Share@ lets users share “decorated movies” with followers on Twitter. The app basically turns still images into movies and...
Update, June 23, 2011: See the results of the Mixi campaign summarized here. Japan’s largest real-identity social network Mixi has started distributing social banner ads, in cooperation with Nike Japan. Concept-wise, the so-called NikeiD campaign is very similar to the “mixi Xmas...
If you’re reading this, chances are you are interested to hear that Ameba and Ameba Pigg operator CyberAgent has relaunched their English corporate website yesterday. All English pages that were on the Japanese main site before (for example the IR section) have now moved to this address:...
Ameba operator CyberAgent has announced guppi, a free Twitter client for Android phones. The app incorporates all the usual features users would expect from a Twitter client, plus over 35 different backgrounds for the timeline and a special photo filter function (see below) CyberAgent says that...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry