In Japan, Facebook does not populer, just made people lose Indonesia

In Japan, social networking site Facebook is not the most popular - especially for Friendster. Sunrise in the City, the site Mixi who became king. It turned out that behind Mixi is an Indonesian.

The story about the people behind Indonesia Mixi site found by a guide named Rita, when journalists visited Kuswarahardja Dadan detikOTO Tokyo, Japan, in the framework of the Tokyo Motor Show.

Rita-san, an Indonesian who has become a Japanese citizen, said that Japan's social networking site popular is not Facebook or Friendster. Mixi.jp site is preferred because it uses only the starch made understandable by the Japanese or those that specifically studied.

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Uniquely, Rita-san said, this site was created by the people of Indonesia. "The story he used to work in Japan, he often open-open Friendster fit for work. Pas boss ngeliat curious, interested and eventually make his own networking site," said Rita-san.

According to Rita-san, Mixi site became popular and well liked in Japan. Of course, also bring in money through advertisements in it. "The boss is then return the favor and make the people that komisarisnya Mixi Indonesia," said Rita-san.

Of course, the story of mouth like this can be filled with distortions and spices. Especially Rita-san and did not remember the name of Indonesia's success in the State Sakura.

Conducted a brief search through Google's detikINET, Wednesday (28/10/2009), find some 'tracks' Mixi and manufacturer. In Alexa, for instance, Mixi is ranked high (no Best in Japan. Facebook does not appear in the top 20 major sites in Alexa Japan's version of it.


Developer Mixi also tracked in attendance at the MySQL Users Conference 2006. There Kesuma Batara name - a very 'Indonesia' - listed as a speaker, he referred to as Computer Science graduate of Takushoku University, Tokyo, and in 2006 was recorded as the Chief Technology Officer of Mixi Inc..

In addition, Batara name is also listed on Wikipedia as Batara Eto. Mentioned that the man who was born in 1979 had become a Japanese citizen since 2007 and changed her last name according to Eto's grandfather's last name which is the Japanese people. But the writing on Wikipedia is not a clear source mentioning.

Source : Unik.us