What a month it has been for Glam Japan! First Glam Mobile and now Tinker.
During my last visit to Japan it was clear that there is a great interest and need for a product like tinker in Japan. We met with several media companies and advertisers and the concept resonated with them all. Outside the US, Japan has the largest number of twitter users, Facebook is almost non-existent here in Japan.
Yuki and the team set out to capitalize on this opportunity and now three months later Glam Japan has officially launched jp.tinker.com.
The press conference was held at Imagine Studios, Nippon Broadcasting Systems in Tokyo on the 29th of September. It was attended by over 80 press and media organizations. Tinker has been very well received and traffic to the site has increased 10 fold since the launch.
Congratulations to the Glam Japan team for a successful launch. I would like to especially thank Keizo Mishina and Akira Futakuchi for setting up the press conference and coordinating all the press interviews, Bud Uesu and Takashi Naito for their sleepless nights getting the site ready to launch. And thank you to everyone that supported them from Glam US.
Go Tinker! Go Glam Japan!!
-Raj Narayan, Co-founder, Architect and VP, Engineering
Photos from the event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raj_narayan/sets/72157622360164073/
Press coverage:
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20090929/338123/
http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/nmg/20090929/205849/?ST=nmg_page
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0909/29/news082.html
http://digitallife.jp.msn.com/article/article.aspx/genreid=109/articleid=460868/
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4369478/
http://topics.jp.msn.com/digital/photoarticle.aspx?mediaid=244225
http://news.nifty.com/cs/technology/internetdetail/itmns-20090929080/1.htm
http://japan.cnet.com/marketing/story/0,3800080523,20400768,00.htm
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20090929_318187.html
http://news.goo.ne.jp/article/internet/business/it/iw2009093004-internet.html
http://mainichi.jp/life/electronics/cnet/archive/2009/09/29/20400768.html
http://blog.kokokukaigi.com/archives/2009/09/glam_media_japantinker.html
http://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/jp.tinker.com/
