I first saw this on the Nikkei Weekly ITPro News site. It seems that sony is hoping to sell a lot of product by allowing bloggers to write reviews, and use pictures of their products on their blogs.
They hope to take on 30,000 affiliate members in an effort to sell at least 2,000,000,000 yen worth of Sony products. They are also hoping to target bloggers using some of the instant blog sites such as livedoor, So-net, and Seesaa.
Submitting my Japanese language site to Yahoo brought me to the SiteExplorer page. It seems to be something like Google’s Webmaster Tools. Once you are logged in with your Yahoo! Japan idea, you can submit a site to site explorer. It asks you to either upload an HTML page or put a meta tag in…
In an interview with Nikkei Business Online, Yahoo President Masahiro Inoue said that Google is not so great, and implied that Yahoo Japan has done great things while staying in the law. This comment may be a reference to Streetview which is one of Google’s most popular products in Japan, and for which Yahoo Japan…
In a previous post I talked about how facebook might challenge mixi in japan. In a nutshell, I thought the apps that allow people in Facebook to interact and “play” together would be a big factor in the success of Facebook in Japan. I’ve also given some thought to the privacy issues involved with both…
With text at 25% larger and easier to use menus for such things as “use the internet”, “email”, and “create a postcard”, Fujitsu is trying to tap into an estimated million person market for computers that would be easy for senior citizens to use. They plan to first put out about 2000 computers to test…
As you know if you live in Japan, NHK demands payment for its services. In fact, they say that “if you own a tv” you are required to pay. Many non-Japanese people living in Japan think that pretending not to understand Japanese will save you, but they will come back with a vengence, or an…