Connecting. between the two valley. Vox 2007-10-26T18:00:46Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d10a75e6488bfa/ News about Japanese internet market and advertisement. DeNA Operating Result tag:vox.com,2007-10-25:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00e398b6a28f0004 2007-10-25T16:01:19Z 2007-10-26T18:00:46Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom DeNA Inc. , a provider social gaming mobile website"mobile game town", e-commerce and payment service provider, today reported second quarter operating results. For the three months ended Sep 30, 2007, revenue increased 114% to 6.399 billion Ye...

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]]> MacDonald Mobile Coupon tag:vox.com,2007-10-17:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00e398b4020a0003 2007-10-17T23:36:07Z 2007-10-24T03:10:26Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Coupon image from MacDonald

MacDonald's mobile coupon subscriber has marked 5MM according to its press release. http://www.mcd-holdings.co.jp/news/2007/company/20070928.html Since they have launched the coupon website in 2003, they record 1M subscriber in Oct 2006. Service ...

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]]> Voice Android "HATSUNEMIKU" tag:vox.com,2007-10-17:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00e398b3ae350004 2007-10-17T02:18:02Z 2007-10-24T02:55:46Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Technorati_hatsune Reset - VOCALOID2 Hatsune Miku

Voice Android "HATSUNEMIKU" has been creating the buzz in Japan. Software has been released from Crypton Future Media, Inc in the end of last August, and has already sold more than 15,000 copies. Price is 15,750Yen (approx.$130) With the softwa...

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]]> T-Shirt Design Competition Widget tag:vox.com,2007-10-12:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00e398b2189d0001 2007-10-12T20:28:57Z 2007-10-12T20:40:55Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Widget from UNIQLO for T-shirt Design competition. http://ut.uniqlo.com/utgp/en/about/award2008 From the 13,206 designs that were submitted from around the world, 1,000 will be shortlisted by the UT Selection Committee. Which will be shown on th...

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]]> Creative Agency KAYAC tag:vox.com,2007-07-07:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00d4144bdf203c7f 2007-07-07T20:33:18Z 2007-07-07T20:41:53Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Supernatural_labo

KAYAC is a unique creative agency. They have a outstanding creativiy and technology to make unique and fun internet services(specially widget!). KAYAK released 7 new projects in July 7th named "777Project". Top Page Renewal http://www.kayac.com/ ...

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]]> UNIQLOCK tag:vox.com,2007-06-21:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00cd9738215f4cd5 2007-06-21T06:52:08Z 2007-06-21T07:51:05Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

UNIQLOCK

Widget base promotion website from UNIQLO. http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/ Clock hit the notes and Uniqlo fashioned dancer get into the swing of it. Their new feature "WORLD UNIQLOCK" will be released soon, which will surely connect the blogger us...

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]]> Strategy of Japanese Mobile Carrier tag:vox.com,2007-06-18:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00cd97373fce4cd5 2007-06-18T19:09:30Z 2007-06-18T19:09:30Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Difusion rate of mobile phone in Japan has reached to 85% in 2006, according to the Cabinet office research. Which cause share competition between NTT Docomo(53M), KDDI(28M) and SoftBank Mobile(Former Vodafone). Since Docomo has released "imode(i...

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]]> "It's not the one ROBOT" tag:vox.com,2007-06-16:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00d09e783065be2b 2007-06-16T01:13:40Z 2007-06-16T01:13:40Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

KOREJYANAI ROBOT

"It's not the one ROBOT" (KOREJYANAI ROBOT) When you give this to your child for their birthday present, Kids will yell out for help saying "IT'S NOT THE ONE(I WANTED)!!!" Do you have these kind of experiences? Sure you do have, and your kids sh...

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]]> Mobile Internet ad is about x2 bigger in Japan compare with US in 2007 tag:vox.com,2007-06-12:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00cd97352b9b4cd5 2007-06-12T20:14:37Z 2007-06-12T20:14:37Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Following table shows that market size of mobile ad. in Japan and USA (US$/mil) 　　 　 2006　 2007　 2008　 2009　 2010 Japan　1,925　2,278　2,628　2,893　3,120 USA 　　421　　903　1,602　2,395　3,415 As you can see, Japan is about x2 larger market right now bu...

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]]> SNS over mobile is very popular even for Mixi tag:vox.com,2007-06-12:asset-6a00d10a75e6488bfa00cd97352b8a4cd5 2007-06-12T20:13:24Z 2007-06-12T20:13:24Z Toshi Namba http://connecting.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Mixi, the most popular SNS site in Japan now has over 10M users and more people are using mobile phones to access it. (by the way, i understand that myspace has over 180M users...so compare with that mixi is a very small player....) According to ...

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