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- Tokyo2point0 Event: Press Army and social learning site iKnow!October 7
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This month’s Tokyo2point0 event (our reports on former events) took place on Monday again at the Super Deluxe in Roppongi.
These two presentations were delivered.
UltraSuperNew’s Press Army
UltraSuperNew’s director Michael Sheetal delivered a presentation on “Press Army”, a bilingual web service, which is geared mainly towards companies. Press Army enables users to automatically monitor, analyze, visualize and summarize the impact a given brand, project or topic has in social media.
Michael used the term “Tokyo2point0″ as an example in his presentation and attendees could see how and to which extent users of services like Flickr, YouTube or Twitter have discussed the event right to the poi
- Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummierOctober 5
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Oishiku Henkan (lit. Yummy Converter) is a web service which adjust automatically a color balance of an uploaded JPEG image of food to make the food image look yummier.
It’s a very simple service, but the result is quite impressive. I tried with a picture of my own, and it has improved very much.
Note: uploaded images will be displayed on the top page unless you checked “画像を非公開にする“.
Post from: Asiajin, Japan's Web/IT news
Oishiku Henkan (yummy converter) makes your food image yummier
- Tomorrow’s Rainbow: 86-year old Japanese nun writes cell phone novelOctober 5
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Novels and poetry written, bought and read on cell phones are nothing unusual in mobile phone-crazy Japan.
Now it came to light that Jakucho Setouchi, a 86-year old Buddhist nun has written a long-running cell phone novel series (keitai shousetsu in Japanese) without disclosing her real name for several months.
Setouchi is an accomplished writer and currently lives in a Buddhist temple in Iwate prefecture, Northern Japan. She is well-known for her translation of Tale of Genji, said to be the world’s first novel (written in the early 11th century).
The digital love story, which is entitled Ashita No Niji, Tomorrow’s rainbow, is the first she has written on a cell phone. Setouchi chose “Purple” as an alias and began writing the novel in May this year. The story was distributed to Japanese cell phone users in several chapters and finally came to an end just this month. You can tak
- Daily Portal Z: Social learning platform iKnow! cooperates with niftyOctober 4
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Tokyo-based social learning platform iKnow! and Japanese telecommunications and web powerhouse nifty (most famous in the web space for its portal of the same name) are cooperating.
The companies have set up the “Owarai eigo dojo” (Funny English Training Hall), giving Japanese iKnow users the possibility to translate funny stories from nifty’s mega popular “Daily Portal Z” into English.
nifty provides their users with a dedicated web site (Daily Portal Z in English).
As the cooperation began just a few days ago, the content available in English is still scarce, but should be particularly cool for people interested in Japa
- Dwango releases 61 minute-ringtone, wants to be listed in the Guiness book of recordsOctober 3
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Dwango, the Tokyo-based company behind Japan’s uber video portal Nico Nico Douga and the ringtone for dogs, has officially filed an application to get listed in the Guiness Book of Records.
Why? The company has developed what they think is the world’s longest ringtone at 61 minutes and 40 seconds. Say what you want, but in my view, these guys are Marketing geniuses.
The ringtone became available just today (Japanese handsets only) and is free for users of the Dwango download package offer.
For Asiajin readers living in Japan and actually wanting to download the ringtone, here are the instructions for Docomo, au and SoftBank:
i-mode:
iメニュー→メニューリスト→着信メロディ／カラオケ→J-POP→dwango.jp☆取放題EZweb:
au one→カテゴリ検索→着信メロディ・カラオケ・ボイス→J-POP→dwango.jpDX☆うたアリ☆Yahoo! Keitai:
ケータイ：メニューリスト→
