Hatena

Hatena is a Japanese internet services company, with its main product being Hatena Bookmarks, the most popular social bookmarking service in Japan. mylo is a Sony communcation product.

English buzzwords poorly understood 2007

Hatena which is like a digg. com which caused hammering on the servers for a few days.

dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan 2009

Using Google Groups and the project collaboration tool Hatena:: groups, the group worked around the clock for six days on the initial translation, which was then released on PBworks.

Global Voices in English » Japan: ‘Yoshiharu Habu and Modern Shogi’, an Open Translation Project 2009

One person as an individual cannot change this architecture, but it's possible for Mr. Umeda, as an executive of Hatena, to make decisions to improve the situation.

Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two) 2009

As long as I'm a board member for Hatena, I'm not allowed to say “You guys should do that!” and “People who talk like this are bad”.

Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part One) 2009

In hindsight, Hatena has offered a venting place for these cowards and fulfills the role of life-support to this hopeless system (that Mr. Umeda also detests).

Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two) 2009

For example, Takayuki Fukatsu, after underscoring that it was Hatena who failed at making inroads into the U.S. market, commented on his blog:

Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two) 2009

He's the one that fanned the flames and started the movement; therefore Mr. Umeda or Hatena must carry out the vision, or else people will give up and say “Oh, he was nothing but talk.”

Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two) 2009

Indeed, researchers even discovered a tiny ocean creature on a beach—Hatena “mysterious” in Japanese—that seemed to be engaged in the very process of going green.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In the past two weeks, tensions have been running high in the Hatena community over the candid comments by Chika Watanabe - an IT consultant based in San Francisco - regarding the future of Japan:

Global Voices in English » Japan: ‘Yoshiharu Habu and Modern Shogi’, an Open Translation Project 2009