Samurai Factory Information

SAMURAI FACTORY DEBUTS MANGA AD CROWDSOURCING SERVICE

2010-04-15T03:57:33Z

Service matches manga artists with prospective advertising clients to create advertisements in a manga style http://manga-ad.shinobi.jp/), an advertising service to crowdsource design requests for clients desiring a manga style for their ad campaign.

The service will make appeals for ad designs for prospective clients, and designs selected will receive Ninja Points for use in the Ninja Tools family of services, as well as compete with each other for prize money based on the ranking of click-through rate (CTR) for selected designs. Prize money will vary based on the scale of the campaign.

Company President Kenji Ito comments, “We have found that having manga designs in advertising campaigns create a deeper connection between the user and the product or service being advertised. This has been clearly demonstrated to us through testing manga/non-manga versions to our users and the manga versions have been much more successful.”

Ito also believes that aspiring manga artists will welcome the chance for more freelance work. “By crowdsourcing the ad designs to our users, we feel we are providing an opportunity for manga artists to hone their skills while being able to earn some income in the process.”

The initial release of Manga Ad will be restricted to campaigns restricted to Japan, but plans include expanding coverage to global campaigns in the near future.

Samurai Factory is a leading provider of web services in Japan, with a total of over two million registered users. To find out more, please visit http://www.samurai-factory.jp/en/ .]]>

NOTIFICATION OF SERVICE TERMINATION

2010-03-10T08:57:05Z

Effective on March 31, 2010, we will be permanently terminating all activity for the following services:

NinjaID http://ninjaid.net
Ninjalyzer http://ninjalyzer.com
Ninja WebSite http://ninja-website.com
Ninja Access Counter http://ninja-accesscounter.com

Please be aware that you will no longer be able to access any data stored on the servers for these services, and any use of each individual service will also cease on March 31st. We strongly recommend that you plan ahead to accommodate for new website hosting, access analytics, access counters or OpenID usage as a result of the termination of these services.

We apologize for any inconvenience this will cause and thank you for using our Ninja services. We are looking forward to developing other services for your use in the near future.

Restoration of Normal Service/Apology for Service Downtime

2010-02-19T09:47:25Z

Difficulties encountered during previously scheduled network maintenance (which began 11:00 PM on Feb. 18th (Thu) Japan time) have been resolved and services restored to normal as of 5:00 PM on Feb 19th (Fri).
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this unexpected extension of service downtime has caused you.

Cause of downtime: Network connection failure
Period of downtime: Feb. 18 (Thu) 11:00PM - Feb. 19 (Fri) 5:00PM (Japan time)

Due to complications involving network cables, service was interrupted for all services beyond the previously intended network maintenance period scheduled.

Inability to access our service sites
Inability to log-in to our services
Inability to update blogs, diaries and other service contents
Similar sporadic/consistent downtime for sites constructed with our services

We deeply apologize for troubles caused by our service downtime and we thank you for your continued patience as we worked to bring our services back online. We will work to ensure that similar downtime is not experienced again during future network maintenance.

MANGA CHAT SERVICE TO DEBUT AT ANIME EXPO

2009-06-25T03:24:01Z

MANGA CHAT, a free online chatting service utilizing customizable original manga characters and available in English, has been released in beta version by Japanese company Samurai Factory

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Every chat results in a customized manga, as users can select their own character, choose their own expressions and pick their own background imagery. Users can chat one-on-one with their registered friends online, or enter manga and anime themed chat rooms. The service offers connectivity with Twitter, and is currently developing applications for Facebook and MySpace users.

With over 1.7 million users accessing their services in Japan, Samurai Factory has kept a similar approach in launching MANGA CHAT overseas free of charge. The service is available in English, and they will be releasing other European and Asian language versions later this year.

“There has never been a fusion of the popularity of Japanese manga and SNS services, which we feel we have successfully accomplished with MANGA CHAT,” says company President Yusuke Shinoda (32). He goes on to focus on the cultural impact manga has had internationally. “Manga is a powerful communication tool and we wanted to create a unique space where people around the world could exchange ideas and express themselves through manga. This is the power of the borderless internet.” Plans include holding international competitions open to manga creators worldwide to introduce new characters to the service.

Samurai Factory will be presenting MANGA CHAT at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles from July 2 to July 5, where attendees will have the opportunity to experience the service firsthand.

International versions of 3 tools simultaneously released!

2009-04-21T06:57:37Z

Samurai Factory Inc. has released overseas versions of their tools "NINJALYZER", "NINJA WEBSITE" and "NINJA AccessCounter".

]]> Samurai Factory Inc. has recently released English versions for 3 Web tools.
All services are free of charge and can be used immediately using OpenID.

【NINJALYZER】
http://ninjalyzer.com/
"NINJALYZER" is a free an access analysis tool designed for users outside of Japan.
Similar to "Ninja Access Analysis", "NINJALYZER" allows you to graphically display your access analysis results in real time.

【NINJA WEBSITE】
http://ninja-website.com/
"NINJA WESBSITE" is a free web space service designed for users outside Japan.
With unrestricted capacity, choose from 300 types of domains to build your website in style.

【NINJA AccessCounter】
http://ninja-accesscounter.com/
"NINJA AccessCounter" is an free access counter tool used by simply pasting code right into your web page.
With no count setup to manage and with the ability to choose from over 900 types of counter images, it’s an ease and pleasure to use.

We will continue to broaden our scope of activities and develop services that will be used and enjoyed by more and more people.