Probably in response to the growing competition, Mixi.jp, by far the largest social network in Japan, is no longer an invite only service. About time!
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Today, Twitter got its first Trending Topic in Japanese.
The trend lasted for about 5 hours and the message was
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The internet school yard is full of insults meant to inflict emotional pain. One such term is Weeapoo. It is a childish word meant to belittle someone who likes Japan.
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A list of 30 'mind blowing' Japanese website landing pages. Don't know about you, but I would think Japanese companies know how to market well by now, so the designs can't be that bad, can they?
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In my time as a student of Japanese and working as a translator, I've come across a lot of resources. Here are my top picks for helping you translate while browsing the J-web!
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Twitter Japan is making an interesting move to charge users a variety of paid options for complete access to some accounts.
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Tech Crunch speculates whether the "charge followers for tweets" revenue model might actually work in Japan. With the mobile web so much greater there you got to wonder.
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Though not necessarily my personal top 10 but more like a biased list or sampling of people who make Twitter updates I find interesting
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This week Google debuted a shiny new version of it's Google Translate service. The major new feature is an instant translation of the foreign words or phrases as you type.
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Japanese public TV broadcaster NHK launched an online video library on Saturday consisting of several thousand video and sound clips collected from the broadcaster's program archives. All content can ...
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International domain names or addresses that can be written in non-English characters are expected to be approved this week by ICANN.
The ICANN board, who are meeting this week in Seoul, will decide ...
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Twitter's top man Biz Stone travelled to Japan this week to help launch its debut foreign language site there.
With over two thirds of Japanese internet access being made from a mobile device this mo...
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