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...
Last month, CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent America has released an iPhone app called FreeAppKing that alerts users whenever certain apps in the App Store become available for free or are discounted or on sale (see here). Now the company has announced that FreeAppKing has hit one million users in...
Japan’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan, has announced a new location-based service called Yahoo Loco yesterday. It’s actually not an entirely new site, as Yahoo Loco mashes up a total of seven different existing Yahoo Japan services, for example Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Coupons or Yahoo Gourmet...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry