Japan’s SNS Reviews

Is mixi still the largest community in Japan?
Answer is yes. mixi, most popular Japanese casual social networking service still ranks No.1 among other social networking services in Japan.
However, Gree, the second largest SNS in Japan has been increasing user numbers with their improved mobile site. Mostly the users are female age between 20 to 30.
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Mapping Web 2.0 and You

My friend Andrew lately posted a mindmap of his activities of social media on his blog. And it’s been featured on ReadWriteWeb.
Visualizing Social Media Fatigue
He used mind map to draw relations of his activities and data flows among major social networking sites like LinkedIn, XING, Ecademy, Facebook, etc.
This is a great work, and I recommend […]

Why I left MySpace

I’ve just deleted my account on MySpace. The reason is simple. “I don’t use it anymore.”
I haven’t really received any messages, or new friend requests for quite some time. I now use Facebook mainly and got tired of managing several accounts that are almost the same as others.

In response to Suzanne

In response to Suzanne’s post on November 13. If you are wondering what this is all about, please visit her post.

What is Yaari? Do you know?

I just received an invite to Yaari, another social networking service from one of my business network contacts.
However, since I’m concentrating my casual social networks to Facebook, I’ve unsubscribed myself from Yaari database, so future invitations will not be delivered.
Yaari site design is very cheap, and it just seems another, “Oh again…” kinda site but […]