Published by Motoko on 11 Jan 2008
DeNA owns Japan’s most popular mobile portal site, “Mobaga Town”, and their stock is falling rapidly for the past several weeks.
Late last year, Japanese government put out a statement requesting all the mobile service providers to use a filtering system to stop children under 18 to access certain sites*. And, in early December, Japanese Telecommunications Carriers Association and Continue Reading »
Published by Motoko on 20 Dec 2007
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 »
Published by Motoko on 28 Nov 2007
I’m pleased to write that I’m co-hosting the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo in Tokyo next Spring! We are currently making all the strategic plans, selecting speakers, contacting sponsors, etc. to produce a great event for Japanese SEO/SEM professionals in Japan.
(Sorry for not posting any new articles here for a while. November has been a really crazy month.)
More information about SES Tokyo 2008.
