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

I wrote about East Japan big earthquake disaster charity of PiggLife last month.
See also: PiggLife does charity collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto
It achieves great result now. The operator of PiggLife announced the middle of the donation amount of money today. Operator of PiggLife Cyber Agent announced the progress in the middle of the amount of donation. They collected donations of 54,027,140yen(696724.33 USD) during a January 11-31.

The donations were done by virtual goods. PiggLife users put a lot of virtual cedars on a garden. This project continues until the end of March.

Yokote city, Akita started the examination use of the Facebook page

I came back to the parents’ home(birth place) Yokote city, Akita Prefecture last month.

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This city is the country which is located in the northeast in Japan(Tohoku) and desolate very much. However, the local government and the citizen use the social media. The Yokote city government office started the examination use of the Facebook page today.

http://www.facebook.com/YokoteCityOffice

A period is till the end of March. It is too short and too careful. However, in Japan, that a local government uses Facebook is rare(IT literacy of a Japanese government is very low). Of course I stick up for them challenge. And I wish they learn more about Facebook.

By the way, There is the pioneer of this trial in Japan. That is Takeo city, Saga Prefecture. They shifted to the Facebook page in city's website. The mayor of Takeo city is the chairperson of Japanese Twitter society.

See also:
Takeo-city To Force All Employees To Register And Work On Facebook

Doraemon becomes social game in Mobage

Doraemon is the most popular Manga, Anime and character in Japan,In Japan. This is national contents of Japan surely. Probably, there are no Japanese who hates Doraemon. Now, Doraemon is a popular also in Asia and Europe.

ドラえもん (1) (てんとう虫コミックス)


Today, DeNA announced that they released a social game of Doraemon in Mobage "Doraemon Hokkorina" in this spring.

Mobage users grant the wishes of various characters with Doraemon.

Of course I'll play this social game. Because Doraemon is my favorite character! :)

Spotify lands at Japan at last

Such a text is displayed now on the top page of Spotify.

This is good news. Japan has been ignored for every social music service until now(Turntable interrupted access from Japan, too).
Of course I registered my e-mail address.

Twitter account of the Finnish embassy is popular in Japan

Twitter account of Japan's Finnish embassy(@FinEmbToky)  is very popular in Japan because they are friendly.

Besides, they are familiar with Japanese anime and manga.

When we search "Juutilainen(ユーティライネン)" by Google image search in Japan...

In this way, Girls were found than officer. This is character of anime called "STRIKE WITCHES". STRIKE WITCHES is anime which personified weapon of WW II to girls. Eino Ilmari Juutilainen is like that in STRIKE WITCHES.

 
The Japanese Twitter user asked it for a Finnish embassy. Then they answered.

"We already know all"

In addition, manga called "Hetalia" which personified a nation is in Japan. Finland in Hetalia is this.

Finnish embassy knows this, too.

Of course they do not do only Tweets of manga and anime. They teach us various Finnish information. And their Tweets are friendly, intelligible and replies also to the question of a follower frequently. Incidentally, it is secret which of Japanese and Finns is their Twitter staff.

Japanese Android application market finally get simulation game of poo upbringing

Yesterday, I found madness Android apps in Japanese Android Market.

This is "Unko Ikusei simulator mobile".
(Unko means poo in Japanese. Ikusei means upbringing in Japanese)

This apps is the simulation game that can enjoy upbringing of the poo in real time. Originally it was software for PC developed in 1998. Developers redevelop it for Android. You can touch the poo using touch panel interface.
In addition, this apps is free and the users review are high evaluation.

PiggLife does charity collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto performs the victims support project "LIFE 311" of the East Japan big earthquake disaster now. It is a project to build the temporary houses by the trees of cedar around the stricken area. And Sakamoto cooperated with PiggLife for the promotion of this project.

PiggLife opened a special area of LIFE311.

WE can hear the number of Sakamoto for free there.

He is virtual Sakamoto. Similar very much!:)

He speaks a message. "Hello, I'm Ryuuichi Sakamoto. The action of the virtual world PiggLife leads to activity of the reality stricken area support. This is a very splendid plan. Please participate. Love and trees!"

We can buy the trees of cedar for contribution in a special area. The tree of cedar has three kinds of 100yen, 500yen, 1,000yen.(abont 100yen = 1.29USD)

We can plant the tree of cedar in my garden. These profit is contributed all to LIFE311.

Go hentai go! Japanese developer developed iPhone game apps that removes girl's brassiere

Japanese application developer accomplished an unprecedented splendid achievement. Apple has shut out sexual contents. However, App Store has such an application now.

This is a game to take off the brassiere of the girl. Player becomes a schoolboy and takes off the brassiere of a school girl sitting down on the seat in front in a classroom in class so that she is not noticed from the rear.

It was released in last August and was downloaded more than 20,000. A development period is two years. It fell to examination of Apple 3 times. However, the developer did not give it up.

And the miracle happened(In November of the last year, Apple was busy by release of iOS5 and iPhone 4S).

Watch this miracle if you can access Japanese App Store.

Japanese Social Game Platform War

Japan has a lot of social game platforms. Japan has much social game platforms. Therefore I made a Japanese main social game platform list.

mixi(PC/Mobile)
History of Japanese open platform began in mixi(from 2009 summer). However, mixi loses in Mobage and GREE now.

Mobage(PC/Mobile)
They are the second open platforms in Japan. They were only mobile, but they cooperated with Yahoo!Japan later and opened Yahoo! Mobage(for PC).

GREE(Mobile)
They are late departure, but are a platform making money most now. They offer a social game only in mobile.

Ameba(Mobile)
Ameba is a CyberAgent's social community. Ameblo(Blog) and AmebaPigg(Virtual World) are famous, but they provide a lot of games for mobile in conjunction with them.

Colopl(Mobile)
Colopl is known as operator of mobile geolocation social game. However, they are platforms specialized in geolocation game with it.

NicoNico Douga(PC)
NicoNico Douga is Japanese popular video sharing site. They open platform "NicoNico application " which can play a social game while watching video.

Hangame(PC/Mobile)
Hangame was well-established online game portal site. However, they make efforts in a social game now.

entag!(Mobile)
They are the mobile social game platform which just opened on January 11. They assume mobile SNS "logtomo" which started in 2007 and renewed it on starting a social game site with a smartphone.

DMM.com(Mobile)
They are japanese PPV sites, but are known as porn video site mainly. They started a social game platform for mobile experimentally. Their characteristic is providing a porno social game. Hentai eroge and social game, this is the strongest combination! :)

Japan has many platforms besides these. Those big characteristics is almost of "for future phone". And everybody globalization and cross platform are behind.

Kawaii social music service "Beatrobo"

When Turntable was released, it was popular among Japanese geeks at first. However, we can't access it from Japan now.

Therefore Beatrobo appeared.

Beatrobo is social music service that we can log in by Facebook account. A characteristic of this is asynchronous, not real-time. Other social music services are "real time". We cannot enjoy music together if we do not log in with a friend. If we compare them, Beatrobo is a social game, other social music services are virtual world or MMO.

We make the robot avatar first.

This is my room.

Facebook friends using Beatrobo are made a list automatically.

Avatars which we can display at a time are to 5 including myself. we can choose whose avatar we display.

Let's search numbers and add them to my play list.

We can search in Japanese.

Let's send a request to a friend of the same music taste.

Beatrobo exhibits in SXSW.

Beatrobo Facebook page

See also:
Social Music Community Beatrobo Makes Sharing And Listening To Songs With Friends Easy, Asynchronous(TechCrunch)

Virtual gift wrapping function of AmebaPigg

Is the wrapping function necessary for virtual goods? CyberAgent has already carried it out.
Their virtual gift service "Ameba present" had a wrapping function than before.

However, this is something like icon(It resemble a virtual gift of Facebook).
They applied this function to popular virtual world "Ameba Pigg".

I got the virtual gift of the New Year's card from a friend the day before yesterday.

I can give my avatar it.

Therefore I decided to present a different virtual gift to a friend as thanks. The price of virtual gifts are 40yen - 250yen(0.5USD - 3.3USD). I chose the virtual gift of the "Otoshidama(Japanese New Year's present money)".

I chose the gift box next. These have various kinds like virtual gifts. And they are charged, too.

In addition, I was able to attach a message and appoint the date and time to give it a virtual gift. I thought that this was a very convenient function. They will assume a birthday and a memorial day.
I think that the wrapping function of the virtual gift evolves "send" to "presenting".