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Microsoft Will Try Out Blog Service In Japan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-there-any-more-annoying-word-than-blog dept.

theodp writes "Signaling its growing awareness of blogging as both a potential threat and a new business opportunity, Microsoft is turning to Japan to launch its first blog service and aims to have 1 million users in the first year. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's offering targets mobile bloggers, since nearly 90 percent of Japan's cell phones have Internet capability."

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  1. Want to know what Microsoft is going to do next? by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just look at what Google is doing today.

  2. Kinda a flooded market by rwven · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone think they're going to have much luck with a program like this in a market that is as flooded as the blog market? There are so many options for blog creation out right now i have a feeling microsoft will be getting a run for it's "money" or worse with a step like this. I can't help but expect failure.

  3. Shouldn't that be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Brog Service in Japan.

  4. Blog is an annoying word? by seldolivaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I actually quite like it... Slashdot is just pissed off because it used to be a News Site and now everyone is calling it a Blog :-)

  5. New trend by michaelhood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I predicted before this would become a new trend. American companies will start launching "high-tech" startups in companies like Japan first, to see how they are received, before trying them on the American market. The general public seems to be more receptive to technology in some European and Asian markets, as evidenced by their wide use of wireless and mobile technologies.

    It will be interesting to see how this affects the way we do business.

  6. Re:Yeah, yeah. by modifried · · Score: 5, Funny
    (I get the feeling that the most popular screen colour for these Japanese blogs will be blue, for some reason.)

    A fatal exception 0xFE7 has occurred in blog. The current blog will be terminated.
    • Press any key to terminate the current blog.
    • Press ALT+CTRL+DEL again to restart your computer. You will lose any information posted in your blog.)