2. Hideaki Takeda -- Short bib. Professor in Artificial Intelligence, National Institute of Informatics (NII) “Web Informatics”: Semantic Web, Social Web, Social Network Analysis Director, R&D Center for Scientific Information Resources, National Institute of Informatics (NII) Distribution of Academic Information like publishing papers in Japan Professor, The University of Tokyo (till March.2010) Service Engineering, etc. My position here is … Researcher of Web from the early stage of Web (1994-) Observer of Web from Computer Scientist’s viewpoint If you have interest on my research, please visithttp://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/
3. Social Media in Japan The State-of-the-art Blog: 17M Users (3M active)/July,2008 Many bloggers, Wide rage Hosting Very Large BSS : 2-channel Many topics, Many users 10M users / Nov., 2005 SNS Mixi(15 M Users /July, 2008) Wikipedia One of Top five languages in Wikipedia Video sharing Youtube NicoNicoDouga: 10M users / Nov., 2008 Mircoblog (twitter) Now Emerging (Twitter: 45M users worldwide/ June, 2009) (Population of Japan: 120 M)
4. Trend of Social Media in Japan Content: Daily Life Culture (Pop culture) Communication Politics Journalism
5. Trend of Social Media in Japan Participants Most: Anonymous A few: Celebrity Few: Famous alpha bloggers