3.31.2012

Japanese idol group "Perfume" shows motion capture data

Perfume is a Japanese popular technopop idol group. They go from this year into the global market.



They showed the motion capture data of the dance of their own today.


http://perfume-dev.github.com/

This is a part of their global market advance project. All the creators can make works using these data. Of course it is free!
24 hours do not yet pass since data are shown, but some works have been already uploaded in youtube.



3.29.2012

SoftBank CEO began Facebook


Japanese cell-phone carrier SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son began Facebook today.
https://www.facebook.com/masayosison
Only several hours pass, but he collects Like! more than 16000.(He is Twitter user most popular in Japan)

By the way, Mark Zuckerberg appeared in sudden Japan today. Are these related?

3.28.2012

[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

3.20.2012

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? "


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

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

3.18.2012

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