Chinese Nico Nico, AcFun

It looks like Chinese developed a copy of Nico Nico, probaly the most watched online video sharing site in Japan.
The site is called, AcFun. The graphical interface is very similar to Nico Nico, but videos are not limited to registered members although Nico Nico limits to only registered members.

Niconico douga - Asiajin

Kendo blog widget attacks negative words

Japanese Kendo magazine publisher recently released a blog widget both in Japanese and English, and it’s been getting popular among Japanese blogosphere.
A Flash based widget displays a virtual kendo worrier who attacks negative keywords contained within blog entries.
Working sample is available here.
To get the widget, click here.

Sekaimon, Yahoo, and eBay

Yahoo! Japan and eBay announced a new partnership, starting Sekaimon a new auction portal for Japanese auction users to purchase goods from eBay in Japanese.

Cool Japanese Icons

We all have seen cool and cute icons on the Internet. But have you seen these cool Japanese icons before?

English contents moved to socialpreneur.info

Dear readers,
I’ve registered a new domain, socialpreneur.info (I was lucky, the domain wasn’t registered yet) and moved my English blog contents to the new address:
http://www.socialpreneur.info
Please update your bookmark, if you previously bookmarked old URL:
http://openup.co.jp/weblog/tm/
My Japanese blog contents still stay at above address, however, I have a plan to register another domain for my Japanese blog.
Thank […]