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We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #16

Japanese airline ANA shows how Japan is ‘cool’ All Nippon Airways (ANA) is turning to social media to promote tourism to Japan. Its Is Japan Cool? website allows users to share and explore interesting and fun aspects of the country, as well as rate them ‘cool’ or ‘not so cool’. The site itself is simple in […]

The Burberry Social Show

Later today, Burberry will reveal their Womenswear Autumn / Winter 2012 collection, at an exclusive fashion extravaganza in London. However, getting one of the best live views of the show won’t be as tricky as it might have been a few years ago, because Burberry have opted to livestream the entire event via Facebook. They […]

Five Friday Facts #15

It’s been a crazy but interesting week, having gone for several events that were part of Social Media Week Singapore. We’ve met plenty of cool characters, and had a great night out at Satay Social – if you were there, we hope you had fun too. Here’s wrapping up the week of full-on social media […]

Pinterest’s Facebook Notifications

We first noticed these Pinterest notifications in Facebook’s live Sidebar Ticker a couple of days ago. Functionally they’re pretty useful, but what’s really interesting is that they seem to encourage leaving Facebook for Pinterest’s site (i.e. another social network) – notice the little icon on the right-hand side of the update in the image below: […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #15

PayPal experiments with QR code mobile shopping in Singapore PayPal will be introducing mobile shopping in Singapore, whereby smartphone owners can buy goods while on the go using a QR code reader application. This initiative will take place at 15 subway (MRT) stations, where gifts from eight retailers at prices reduced specially for Valentine’s Day […]

Five Friday Facts #14

Japan’s social giants Even as the popularity of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook soar in Japan, local social networks are still holding their own. Although Japanese social network Mixi has not seen much growth in new users in the past couple of months, it has remained steady at slightly more than 15 million […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #14

Tudou partners with Sina Weibo for seamless video-sharing Chinese video-sharing site Tudou has introduced an enhanced video-sharing platform that will allow Sina Weibo users to upload and share videos seamlessly to and from Tudou’s website, and enable users to sync comments and discussions on both platforms. Tudou stands to benefit greatly from Sina Weibo’s 250 million […]

Five Friday Facts #13

India is no. 2 Facebook nation behind US India has finally surpassed Indonesia as the nation with the second most number of Facebook users in the world with 43,497,980 users compared to Indonesia’s 43,060,360. India saw a growth rate of 144% in new users in 2011 alone. The US still reigns supreme, accounting for roughly […]

We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #13

Starbucks and Jiepang team up again for Valentine’s Day Starbucks and Chinese location-based service Jiepang will play matchmaker this coming Valentine’s Day with Starbucks’ new social marketing campaign. All check-ins on Jiepang in some parts of China will earn users a blue or pink Valentine’s badge, which will entitle them to two free cups of […]

Social Gaming in Asia

Social gaming is already huge across Asia, as we saw in our recent reviews of Social, Digital and Mobile across Asia. We’re anticipating further growth in the sector during 2012 too, with gamers in Southeast Asia, China, and Japan leading the way. So, given their importance, it’s worth exploring the kinds of people who play […]

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