Yahoo Japan has more than 65% of mobile search share
According to the latest research by Japan.Internet.com and JR Tokai Express Research, more than 65% of mobile search users in Japan are using Yahoo mobile search. It also shows that more than 35% of mobile search users are using Google mobile search function. Yahoo is listed in Softbank’s official menu, and Google is listed in […]
Japan web development and web marketing consortium
A non-profit organisation, Japan Web development and Web marketing Consortium was established on 1 April to improve the quality of Japanese web. Current members include, Adobe Systems, Apple, Microsoft, web design companies, and some individual members. They plan to offer some networking events and seminars, and to reach 200 businesses and 100 individual memberships by […]
JP domain is now the 10th popular domain in the world
Japan Registry Services, who handle JP domain management and DNS operation, announced that there are 908,329 registered JP domains as of April 4, 2007, which makes JP domain to be the 10th popular domains in the world. (There are about 250 ccTLDs in the world.)
Japan University to introduce Google Apps
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.
Reviewing the seasonal visitor growth with Japanese cooking sites
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 Laboratory opened
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 is categorized in three main […]
Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo in November
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 years. There will be sessions […]
Yahoo's ads platform "Panama" opened in Japan
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 the company’s profitability will improve […]
Second Life study association in Japan
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 (SLLJ) within Second Life to […]
Japanese are talking about videos online
“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. At NicoNicoDouga, you can submit the URL of videos you wish to comment, or search for videos that people are commenting.