September 30, 2007 – 9:40 pm
D.B.E.
We were contacted via email recently by a company that offers popular advertising solutions for websites. To reap a profit from it, the service would likely require the posting of banners on this site.
Though this particular company’s service seems to be becoming ubiquitous on sites with a focus similar to ours, we declined them.
We were [...]
September 26, 2007 – 7:12 pm
Just approved some new hot searches: Japanese to English copy machines and Tokyo time lapse
And here are some more fun searches we found:
dance vader
and
learn japanese from gundam
Enjoy!
“Stay Hungry; Keep searching!”
September 24, 2007 – 12:23 am
Changing a hot search.
Seems Japan Aerospace (JAXA) launched a lunar mission.
Some other recommendations are:
JAXA to privatize
google x-prize Jaxa
sino-japan space race
“Stay Hungry; Keep searching!”
September 20, 2007 – 3:58 pm
Just changed another hot search.Trying t0 at least switch them twice a week.
Some other interesting hot searches are:
Accenture the dodgy company behind the new fingerprinting s
abolition of fingerprinting
opposition of fingerprinting
September 20, 2007 – 3:27 pm
The rest of this week we’ll be working on giving the hot search archive a new look.
We plan to change the template to something that better matches the rest of Nipponster.
September 16, 2007 – 10:22 pm
Have you ever had way too much to do?
I feel like my head is going to explode.My nature is to take on more than I can chew, try to pack more than 24 hours worth into a day, or whatever other cliche is fitting here.
There are so many things we would like to do.
I think [...]
September 13, 2007 – 9:07 pm
We are having technical problems…
The problem is affecting the database for Daily J and the Hot Search Archive.
Both are down
I hate technical problems!
September 12, 2007 – 10:20 pm
Yeh!
Some new hot searches finally! We have got to get better at quickly changing the hot searches.
Of course there are a few that we know people love and we feel obligated to leave up, which causes a problem (and we need your feedback) <– blog post about that problem
We thought that, in addition [...]
September 11, 2007 – 10:28 pm
Our new goal, which really is an old goal revisited, is to change a hot search every day.
That way there is always something new to see for those who come for the hot searches.
Right now we have gotten it to about one or two new hot searches a week.
Archiving them is a bit of work. [...]
September 9, 2007 – 3:32 pm
Our goal is “to make the web a better place for Japan-enthusiasts.”
That statement is the standard we use to make decisions.
Ex: Like when we started the Nipponster Japan Project - Japanopedia.org. There are many sites that have directories of Japan-related websites. But those directories are put together by their respective webmasters. Instead, keeping our [...]
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