Our lives have changed since 3/11. We shouldn’t compare Tokyo to Tohoku areas affected by tsunami, but we are facing another fear, radiation. As time passes by, we hear more news on radiation/radioactivity through media, especially from social media but there’s too much information. Here are some sites I find useful for including English speakers...
Took these pictures about a week ago, on the left bottom you should see a cloud shaped a giraffe.
I used to write about WordPress Mu (now called multi site) and BuddyPress tips for beginners and intermediate on a different blog, but lately I’ve redesigned (BuddyPress default theme customized) and restarted updating beneficial information to users. http://en.wpmubp.org/ Please join Facebook fan page if you are a Facebook user. RSS is available via feedburner. BuddyPress...
Have you heard of zenback? It’s currently the hottest related posts widget from Six Apart currently provided to Japanese bloggers only as beta program. It’s lightweight (loads fast), fetches Twitter mentions (similar to BackType), Hatena bookmarks, mixi check, and recently added Evernote button. Options (i.e. how many related items to show) are configurable, you can...
This is a repost from my backup, originally posted on May 14, 2010. Japan – NEC and Big Issue Foundation, a registered non profit of Big Issue Japan partnered to provide series of IT lectures to homeless sellers of the magazines. Looking After the Shop by canonsnapperAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License In FY 2007, NEC and partners “The...
I have no idea what this person wants… But this is an example of spammers on business social networking services. Whoever you are contacting, make sure to add personalized message unless the person tells you to just send friend requests.
I’ve been a member of LinkedIn Bloggers Yahoo! group almost since the beginning, at the same time I was co-moderating LinkedIn Japan with Vincent Wright for Japan related users on LinkedIn to share knowledge and networks. At that time, LinkedIn didn’t have the trademark policy, so we could use the name LinkedIn within our group...
Generally when you share a link on Facebook, Facebook gets excerpts or first paragraph from the linked content page. However when you share a Blogger (blogspot.com) blogs, Blogger somewhat sends the first paragraph found on your blog, not from the blog content, which is pretty much annoying. For example, this is the description of my...
SSP CO.,LTD. (SS Seiyaku) has released a real time flu map called, “kazemiru” (requires Flash) based on Japanese tweets over the past 24 hours from each prefectures, categorized to; sore throat, runny nose, ague, headache, cough, and fever. According to SSP and Nielsen report as of August 2010, Japanese twitter users are over 10 million,...
I’m reposting my old entries from backup. Some of mentioned services closed or changed during 2 years, and I’ll write updates in near future. Is mixi still the largest community in Japan? Answer is yes. mixi, most popular Japanese casual social networking service still ranks No.1 among other social networking services in Japan. However, Gree,...
Saturday-Morning by Trois Têtes (TT)Attribution-NonCommercial License After perhaps 2 years of silence (or more?), I’m back to blogging in English. I stopped writing blogs almost the same time I began to tweet, but after using Twitter for a year, I found that I needed to sum up my tweets to make things clear, and also...
With the recent boom of blogging among Japanese, many major Japanese ISPs and portal sites are hosting blogging services for each user interested to speakout their mind. But I see about 90% of them are not being able to provide valued services to their paid and non-paid customers due to the bandwidth and server capacity...
