Archive for December, 2007

Published by Motoko on 20 Dec 2007

SNS and Video were big in Japan in ’07 – What’s next?

We all talked about how popular SNS and video sharing became in Japan in 2007. As the rest of the world starting to pay attention to these as new means of marketing, “2007 Web services usage survey” done by Japan.Internet.com hints that Japanese are already looking for the next “thing”.

According to the survey, BBS (bulletin board services), Net auction and surprisingly the Video sharing lost some popularity in 2007 from the previous year. Continue Reading »

Japanese Online Market

Published by Motoko on 11 Dec 2007

Back from SES Chicago and only 20 days left in the year!

I’m back from SES Chicago. It was another great conference with some interesting sessions and keynote speakers. The best of all, for me at least, I got to speak about Japanese Internet Market during the “Search Around The World” session on day 1!

With Internet technology, the size of the company or the location of the office no longer limit your market to your local area or just in US. In fact, at SES Chicago, Continue Reading »

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