4.73 million blog users in Japan says Government
Oct. 19 – The ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan (www.soumu.go.jp) has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of September 30, 2005. According to the announcements, there are 4.73mil registered Blog users and 3.99mil registered SNS users in Japan. Both numbers grew since the last research done in March of 2005; […]
Nifty to begin pod casting service of "Mainichi weekly" – Japan
Oct. 12: Nifty’s (www.nifty.com) pod casting site “Podcasting Juice” has launched the English version of Mainichi weekly podcast. (mainichi-podcasting.cocolog-nifty.com) The service is provided for free. Podcasting Juice, which opened in July, now has 620,000 users.
Yahoo! Japan's new area search
Oct. 11, Yahoo! Japan kicked off it’s beta version of area search service. (area-search.yahoo.co.jp) It provides two search windows, the firlst one for the location/landmarks, and the other one for the type of businesses that you are looking for, i.e., “Osaka” + “movie theater”. The search results includes the names, addresses, and the phone numbers […]
Japan internet usage report (Sept 19-25)
Video Research Interactive Inc. (www.videoi.co.jp) has put out the results of Internet Usage report for the week of Sept. 19-25. > 1. Search/Portal Sites – 19.3mil 2. ISPs – 14.7mil 3. Community Sites – 12.9mil 4. IT Information Sites – 15.4mil 5. Corporate Sites – 6.0mil > 1. Yahoo.co.jp – 16.6mil 2. Nifty.com – 7.1mil […]
New Yahoo search Japan
Yahoo Japan (www.yahoo.co.jp) has officially kicked off its Yahoo Search Japan (search.yahoo.co.jp) on October 3rd. With new Yahoo Search, the results from the robot search by “Yahoo! Search Technology” (previously known as “page results”) will be displayed first instead of the category search results.
Ask Jeeves’s Japanese blog search
According to the Search Engine Journal blog, Ask Jeeves has released a new blog search engine for Japan. The launch coincides with the Google announcement earlier this week about the beta of its own blog search. Apparently there are 3.35 million Japanese blogs as of March 2005. Being a site about different languages and countries, […]
MSN has opened its new AdCenter in Singapore – France next
MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore – its long awaited move into the pay per click market – reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars or 6 cents US. The key details are that the system enables you to express preferences […]
Cross border Internet traffic slows – Asia and Latin America fastest
Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America. As the world’s web activity continues apace – the only conclusion is that more web users are heading to local sites as the web expands in their region. This would […]
Korea, Japan and China work together to improve internet security
Asia Media reports that internet authorities in Korea, China and Japan are to work together to improve internet security. The three countries combined represent 30% of all internet users worldwide. AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle Internet troubles
29% of airline bookings to be made online in Asia
Business Day reports that online travel bookings for airline travel are rising sharply through 2005. Abacus International of Singapore says that “these figures are encouraging but are by no means the peak.” Internet penetration levels are continuing to rise in the Asia-Pacific region and more travellers are choosing the online route to their tickets – […]