View product info on Japan's Rakuten shops with mobile
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 manufactures make it so that […]
YouTube's CEO will visit JASRAC in Japan in Feb
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 will also attend the meeting […]
Japan's mixi mobile had 100 million page views per day
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.
Changes in PPC ads in Japan
There are some changes in PPC ad market in Japan in December. Here’s some notes for those people who are running the ad campaign in Japan market. – MSN Japan’s Live Search result pages now show the ads from Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. – Overture changed the ad guide lines in Jan. 2007. (Example: Restriction […]
RSS reader brings more accesses to sites in Japan
RSS feeds are very convenient way to obtain the information without visiting each web site, and more and more Japanese are using the services. Despite the initial concern of some of the sites may lose the number of access by providing the RSS service, the latest research done by Japan.Internet.com and goo Research shows that […]
Yahoo Japan's search word ranking for 2006
Yahoo Japan has announced its 2006 Search word ranking. (Jan 1 – Nov 5, 2006) The results shows new trend in the search words used at Yahoo Japan this year. In over all ranking, the ultimate bulletin board service site “2 Channel”, who has been ranked #1 for the past several years, finally lost its […]
Baidu entering Japanese market
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007. “We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. We think we can do better.” … Baidu feels it will have an advantage because […]
New trend in Japanese SNS market
As I’ve reported in past, SNS services are really hot in Japan. While mixi went public with more than 7mil members, and Softbank to offer Japanese version of MySpace, there’s a new trend in SNS market in Japan. At nanoty.jp, you can create your own SNS site for free. From mid to the end of […]
More than 500K "xxx.JP" domain registered
“.jp” domain debuted in February 2001. With more than 500,000 domain registered, now there are more “xxx.jp” registered than other form of JP domains such as “xxx.co.jp” and “xxx.ne.jp”. The total number of registered JP domain is 866.495 (as of Nov. 1, 2006) Unlike “xxx.co.jp” domain, any one can obtain “xxx.jp” domain name from any […]
Google makes Top 10 property ranking site in Japan
On October 23rd, Net Ratings put out the top 10 property ranking sites in Japan for the month of September 2006. According to their research, Google made the top 10 ranking for the first time in history with more than 5 mil increase in the number of users compared to the results from September 2005. […]