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3.08.2010

Japan's most popular virtual world began world development

Now, the most popular virtual world in Japan is "Ameba Pigg". Ameba Pigg was the virtual world that started service latest in Japan, but overtook precedence service in no time. It becomes the core service of the company now (Though only one year yet passes from service).

Today, Ameba Pigg English ver. "Ameba Pico" released.

AmebaPico
http://pico.ameba.net/

AmebaPico　Facebook app ver.
http://apps.facebook.com/amebapico/

Because it suggested "Pig", so "Pigg" became "Pico".

It has already had users more than 20,000 people.

The basic operation is the same as a Japanese version, but designs are different.

Ameba Pico may fly over a Galapagos island called "Japan".

3.01.2010

Sekai camera brings back a "love letter alley"

Long long ago, when Japan lost WWII, There was a letter-writing to translate Japanese and English shop in Shibuya black market.
In those days (and now...), Japanese women were not good at English. And the U.S. soldier did not understand Japanese either. Therefore letter-writing shop started business to translate the love letter of the Japanese woman as an U.S. soldier. Thanks to this shop, after the war many international couples were born. And the neighborhood of this shop came to be called "love letter alley".

This place became fashion building "Shibuya 109" now. But AR app "Sekai camera" for iPhone brought back "love letter bystreet" in the present age.

セカイカメラ×Sweet Vacation コラボレーションイベント via kwout

Sekai Camera is a social augmented reality free app that enables users to communicate by attaching digital post-its to the real world.

Dawnload here
http://support.sekaicamera.com/en/download

The user can contribute "Love message" with heart-shaped Air Tags through Sekai Camera to reality space. Along with this event, J-pop unit Sweet Vacation will be releasing their new song “Love Camera”.

Shibuya is full of heart now!

via Flickr

The heart are seen until March 15.

2.19.2010

W I L L C O M ! !

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/business/global/19phone.html?src=tptw

Japanese Wireless Company Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com via kwout

It's my mobile.

!!!!!

2.18.2010

Playing a social game with Galapagos mobile

Game portal site "Mobage town" for mobile of the biggest in Japan became the social platform (for example Facebook, MySpace and bebo etc...). Many game developers offer a social game in Mobage town now.

In Japan, it becomes considerably always daily to play a game with a mobile (Before iPhone appears). But, the Japanese calls it "Galapagos mobile" for self-mockery because the Japanese mobile culture considerably different from a foreign country.

The details >> Galápagos syndrome

Therefore I show the record that played a social game with Galapagos mobile. I played "Meromero park Mobage town ver." of Cyber Agent,Inc. with a NTT docomo mobile.