Boing Boing: Yahoo Japan launches blog tool

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Yahoo Japan launches blog tool

Yahoo! Japan has released a free blogging software service:

Yahoo Japan, owned mostly by Softbank and partly by Yahoo, on Tuesday launched a test, or "beta," version of Yahoo Japan Blogs, a free service that lets users post blogs and up to 2GB of images, comment on other blogs, and associate their blogs with animated representations of users known as avatars.
(...) The launch could have implications for Yahoo users in the United States, too. Yahoo's Asian blogging services are striking in that they precede any offerings or previews by Yahoo for its flagship portal. And Yahoo's lateness to the blogging game is all the more notable thanks to significant investment by Yahoo's main portal competitors, including Google, MSN and AOL.

Link (Thanks, sebFlyte)

Reader JR Conlin adds,

I'm sure one of the reasons that this hasn't gotten as much exposure is because of the fact that few folks read Korean, but Yahoo! Korea has had blogs for over a year now, and they're pretty popular. Link, and here is an article talking about the launch. I also probably should point out that Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are seperate companies (Link), where as Yahoo! Korea isn't. So in some respects, Japan has finally caught up with the rest of the company. I'm not sure why they haven't released an english version yet, but I'm sure there's fairly good reasons. (Probably abuse related.)

posted by Xeni Jardin at 06:21:03 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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