By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
How can you quickly summarize Japan’s web history from 2005 to 2011? Motohiko Tokuriki, CEO of Tokyo-based ad and marketing company Agile Media Network, showed the following graph (via Internet Watch) during his company’s Social Media Summit today in Tokyo: Translation: 2005: Blogging...
A lot can be said about the differences between Mixi and Facebook Japan (and who will win), but what does Mixi itself say? Today, during a social media event in Tokyo, Mixi gave some insight on how they see things. According to Mixi executive Tsuji Masataka, the key difference between his company...
I just put up an article on Mixi’s new smartphone functions, “Mixi Real Check” And “Mixi Real Check In” for Android, on TechCrunch. The article explains these functions, which were demo’d to me and just a handful of other people earlier this weekend at...
I attended Startupdating #5 yesterday, an event in Tokyo that connects Japan’s web entrepreneurs with engineers looking for new opportunities. Speakers at the event were Hironao Kunimitsu (CEO of Gumi) and Taisei Tanaka (CEO of Geisha Tokyo Entertainment). Their companies are among the...
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi invited me (and a small group of about 10 other people) to a special event at their HQ in central Tokyo last night to introduce two new services that are unique for social networks worldwide. Mixi CEO Kenji Kasahara, COO Akinori Harada, CFO Fumiaki Koizumi...
Big news from Japan’s social gaming world today: Mixi just announced Grenge, a joint venture to be launched with CyberAgent (Ameba), to produce social games: Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry