searchenginejournal.com— Yahoo has gone and launched a very impressive Digg style social news sharing service at Yahoo Japan dubbed Minna no Topics, complete with a "Plus Score" box, user profiles and commenting.
Mar 16, 2007View in Crawl 4
Little-known factoid:Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are two separate companies altogether.Yahoo! Japan is the only foreign Yahoo! service which is separately owned and operated.
The major shareholder in Yahoo! Japan is Softbank, a Japanese company that got its start in software, then IT publishing (it bought a major share in Ziff! Davis back in the day), to investing in broadband (it's majority owner of Yahoo! BB, one of the biggest internet providers in Japan) and telecommunications (they recently snapped up Vodafone Japan and rebranded it under their own name).Softbank also owns a fairly decent chunk of Yahoo! Inc. and the European Yahoo! franchises, so duffydirect isn't totally off-base.
I don't think it's cultural... Japanese bulletin boards are extremely active, although people tend to stick to places like Mixi or 2channel where they can gather in smaller groups. There may be some resistance to commenting somewhere where hundreds or thousands may be reading, but I don't think that's the problem here -- the site isn't really that popular yet... most of the stories are from one or two sources and posted by the same group of people. My guess is it's most likely just Yahoo! employees at this point.
synaesthesiaMar 16, 2007
Ya-hooooooooooooooooooooooooo /hard gay
brundlefly76Mar 17, 2007
Little-known factoid:Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are two separate companies altogether.Yahoo! Japan is the only foreign Yahoo! service which is separately owned and operated.
jesusfaceMar 17, 2007
There is only one real Digg. And I loves it:)
duffydirectMar 17, 2007
This account has been closed by the user
ae92Mar 17, 2007
The major shareholder in Yahoo! Japan is Softbank, a Japanese company that got its start in software, then IT publishing (it bought a major share in Ziff! Davis back in the day), to investing in broadband (it's majority owner of Yahoo! BB, one of the biggest internet providers in Japan) and telecommunications (they recently snapped up Vodafone Japan and rebranded it under their own name).Softbank also owns a fairly decent chunk of Yahoo! Inc. and the European Yahoo! franchises, so duffydirect isn't totally off-base.
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
Hehe you got there before me.
ae92Mar 18, 2007
I don't think it's cultural... Japanese bulletin boards are extremely active, although people tend to stick to places like Mixi or 2channel where they can gather in smaller groups. There may be some resistance to commenting somewhere where hundreds or thousands may be reading, but I don't think that's the problem here -- the site isn't really that popular yet... most of the stories are from one or two sources and posted by the same group of people. My guess is it's most likely just Yahoo! employees at this point.
mikehartorMay 2, 2007
Doubtful info... But I'm not surpised.
lisafordegMay 8, 2007
Not very clever post, but what an epatage!