Japanese Show No Love for Google Buzz

Japanese show no love for Google Buzz according to the survey conducted by iBridge Research Plus and reported by japan.internet.com. Please note that the survey data doesn't reflect the Google Services in general but only focuses on Google Buzz alone. I won't find the results surprising, first of all the Japanese people tend to use Japanese only services like Ameba and others like it. Although regional arms of internet service giants like Google and Amazon proves to be a hit. I often find searching for Japanese content on Google.jp fruitful without me being able to read Kanji.

via What Japan Thinks

Best Of Japan Episode 01

Alright, before we get started let me tell you about this. Once a week, hopefully I can do this more frequently I will compile links that features fresh Japan related contents from different blogs across the web and post it here. And today I have the first edition of the Best of Japan! Yay!

Best Of Japan Edition 01

Check ot what Vivienne Tam did with the HP Mini 210 via Akihabara News

There are homeless persons in Japan?!? via Tokyo Times

Wow! A very sweet HDR photo of Mori Tower via Tokyo Luv

Tokyo Marathon 2010 it's happening! via Sushi Cam

Some very nice photos of Japanese trains in action via Shibuya246

Geneva 2010: Honda 3R-C Concept. It's small. It's cool! via Punjapit


I think that is all for now. I'm hungry. See you next time Japan addicts! XD

New Japanese Micro-blog vs Twitter

I don't use Twitter. But I have a Twitter account, to reserve my ever famous user name in case someone gets clever and hijack it. LOL. Back to the topic, the Japanese only blogging service Ameba just released what appears to be a decent Twitter challenger called Ameba Now. For sure it's gonna lose since its in Japanese only but still anything is possible.

via Japan Trends