Japan University just announced its plan to introduce Google Apps (Education Edition), and provide it to students (up to 100,000 students). The service includes, Gmail, Google talk and Google calender. They plan to provide the service to a total of 500,000 members including alumnus and staffs in future.
A report by Nielsen/Net Ratings on the site view changes in February shows most of the popular cooking (recipes) sites had a large increase in site views. 3 of them had more than 30% increase in site view from January, and most of the increase came from female between 20-50.
Yahoo! Japan announced the opening of Yahoo! Japan Laboratory in Tokyo. It aims to contribute to a healthy, rich development of the Internet by investigating and researching a further possibility of the Internet with the advancement of the technology, and the relationship between Internet and the society. The academic activity
O’Reilly Japan and CMO Technology announced its plan for “Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo”. It’s currently scheduled for November 15 and 16 at Izumi Garden in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. Tim O’Reilly is scheduled to attend the expo as a keynote, which will be his first visit to Japan in nearly 10
After a long wait, Yahoo / Overture has finally shifted the pay-per-click ads platform to “Panama” in Japan. According to comScore Networks’ study, the advertising campaign on new platform is bringing a higher click-through-rate (5-9% up) since its opening on February 5th. Susan Decker (CEO, Yahoo) said that she believes
Dentsu and Digital Hollywood announced their plan to establish the Second Life Study Association (SLSA) by early March. They are hoping that SLSA to become the place to exchange information related to the marketing activities related to Second Life. At the same time, they established the Second Life Laboratory Japan
“NicoNicoDouga” is not a website for you to submit videos, but to comment about videos you viewed at YouTube and Ameba Vision. Since the opening of its beta version on January 15, 2007, they received 10 mil comments by Feb 7, and getting more than 20 mil page views/day.
I read an announcement by Rakuten that consumers can soon view the information about the products sold at Rakuten by entering product codes on Rakuten catalogue into Rakuten’s mobile site. This sounds great, but why stop there? This is what I want: Most products sold have a bar code. Can
JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) announced that the U.S. video-posting website YouTube’s CEO and CTO will visit them in February to discuss the request made by them to remove the large volume (about 30,000) of copyright infringements found on YouTube. It looks that Google’s managements
Japan’s largest social networking service site “mixi” announced that its mobile service “mixi mobile” had more than 100 million page views on January 15th, 2007. As of December 2006, mixi mobile has 2.3 million unique users, and has more than 12,000 new user registrations every day just from mobile.