[Photo Report] Angry Birds Space release event in Tokyo

It was Angry Birds Space Day on March 22. Release event was held in NTT DoCoMo smartphone lounge of Yurakucho, Tokyo in Japan. Why at NTT DoCoMo smartphone lounge? Probably NTT DoCoMo is Samsung galaxy distributor in Japan is because is it.

When said honestly, there was smaller than event space of conventional Rovio Japan. However, many reporters gathered(There were crew of Japanese national broadcasting NHK, too).

The point different from the event of other countries that there was the explanation about Japan's original tie-up. Rovio Japan ties up with Fuji TV and Taito now."Space invader area" is covered in Angry Birds Space. It was enabled by this business tie-up.

Rovio Entertainment Creative Director Lauri Konttori

Rovio Japan Antti Sonninen

Angry Birds is not so yet famous in Japan. However, Angry Birds Space got the first place at top sales ranking in Japanese App Store, and more popular than sex app. It is difficult in Japan! :)

See also: Japanese TV company Fuji TV and Rovio perform a business tie-up

Why do Web industry people turn a potter's wheel?

Now, Japanese Web community is full of this topic.

"Why do Web industry people turn a potter's wheel? "

どうしてweb業界の人はインタビューの時の画像がろくろで粘土をこねるみたいに両手を突き出した格好になっているの？rikunabi-next.yahoo.co.jp/tech/docs/ct_s…
— iida kouhei (@alpino_kou2) March 17, 2012

These are the examples...

via http://hamusoku.com/archives/6845462.html

What kind of reasons, Web industry people and entrepreneurs do the pose which makes a circle with both hands. This becomes the topic in Twitter, 2channel and NAVER, etc., and people who had interview in the past began to check their own photos.

Nationality and the race do not act on a pose to turn a potter's wheel.

He is making the big works.

He already finished a works.

His works is small.

Steve Jobs reinvented ceramic works. 

via

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2133202047155913601?&page=1

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2133203017656115001?&page=1

By the way, not only Steve Jobs but also Tim Cook is the superior ceramist.

via http://www.thestreet.com/story/11461103/1/apple-ceo-record-demand-for-new-ipad.html

Doraemon Congratulations Cake

NHN Japan makes efforts in application of smartphones. They released such a cute application this month. This is "Doraemon Omedetou Cake". (Omedetou means Congratulations in Japanese)

"Doraemon Omedetou Cake" is the greetings application that can present virtual goods to a friend. It is not a particularly rare thing. However, in the splendid point of this application, all artworks are that Doraemon is a theme. We can present the cake which decorated with virtual goods of Doraemon.

Furthermore, this application has the game element. At first, we must get virtual goods by a shooting game.

We can glance through the virtual goods which we collected with an album.

And we decorate a cake with the virtual goods which we collected. We must play a shooting game many times to do gorgeous decoration. Of course I want to use a lot of Doraemon, but it is difficult to get them.
 

 Android Ver. is here

Personified Siri

Apple released iOS 5.1 and started Japanese support of Siri. Then, the Japanese personified Siri immediately.




Why does she show ass? Because Siri means ass in Japanese(Would not Steve Jobs knew it?).









via Togetter
You can watch other works in Togetter.

An interesting point of this is that there are images of the butler. When Japanese people personified something until now, it was a beautiful girl in many cases. However, Siri is service of only a text. Therefore women may imagine a butler.

In addition, the Japanese does a funny experiment by using Siri. For example, they say blue jokes to Siri and inspect answers [Japanese].

PiggLife collected 8 million yen in February

Farming game Pigg Life of AmebaPigg collects donations of Tōhoku big earthquake and tsunami by a virtual goods from last month. They collected donations of about 8 million yen(about 100,000 USD) in February. The total donations which they collected now exceeded 60 million yen.
They continue working on the fund-raising until April.

See also:
PiggLife collected 50 million yen or more donation in less than one month