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Facebook Japan is reworking translations, including the “poke”

Poking is a function from Facebook, to “Poke” (currently “greetings” in Japan). Facebook will this spring, look at the cleaning up of the translations (Japanese) and open a community bbs. We are being consulted with about this.
Poke, Poking back （facebook）

In some Japanese social networks, you can know whose been looking at your page abit like a “footprint” kind of feature. Facebook doesn’t have that but instead, a poking system where you can poke someone and leave a record of it. We could put this down to a cultural difference hey.

fukushima | Blog | 2010/01/25

A party of Physical Educationally Mobile Team

19th Jan 2010

I attended the Mobile Sports gathering in Roppongi. 800 people attended!

With 800 people there was a variety of industries present. And not just in the mobile field, security, software dev, advertising agencies and people with a general interest also attended.

From the basement all the way to the 3rd floor people were lined up.

Ryo Yoshida | Blog | 2010/01/20

(日本語) ステージ数について

Sorry, this entry is only available in 日本語.

admin | Broadway Cafe | 2010/01/19

Facebook Insight Tools

These are the data analyses tools that become available to you once you have released an app on Facebook.

For example, user numbers are shown in graph form, API runtimes, error counts, feed usage stats are all clearly laid out. These are termed “insights” by Facebook.

User count graph. Current usage, monthly, weekyl and daily views are viewable.

fukushima | Blog | 2010/01/09

Istpika in 2010

Happy New Year

Back into business, I was interviewed by the Nikkei Business Associe “Global samurai’s, setting our sights on a world challenge”.

It’s now 1 year since Istpika moved on from being a game company.

Looking back:

Overseas Facebook has grown to 350M users, social applications have exploded and the leader in the field right now is Zynga garnering 100M users and reaping in massive profits.
In the smartphone arena is the iPhone success story. Not only developers but individual successes have brought stories like this, Worldwide 300M downloads have been announced. Android has also finally joined the fray.
In Japan Mixi has been opened up and implemented a new strategic business model which is receiving plenty of attention. Modage Town has also begun and there are now plenty of developers in Japan.

What have we produced,

fukushima | Blog | 2010/01/06

Game consoles and free business models

I’ve come to like twit, so here’s a bit of an intro.

It was a while ago but this book from Chris Anderson, Free, a new strategy for generating money is quite interesting.
VC (Virtual Console） are all long tail business models. The fact is that Super Mario is still the big seller and the majority of the other developers titles are not selling. A lot of 3rd party developers jumped in thinking it was a chance into the world of console games. Even so, the Nintendo platform still makes money.