Since the Entourage group seems to be unusually attune to Japan, I was wondering if there is any chance that Entourage will be compatible with the extremely popular character mail systems (see below) in use by DoCoMo, KDDI, and Jphone? If it is not in the plans, please consider this a request to add the feature. -- Eric Hildum ------ Forwarded Message From: Wireless Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Wireless Watch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:05:47 +0900 To: "wireless watch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Wireless Watch No. 21 (from J@pan Inc magazine) [...] And talk about making money: Kazuhiko Hachiya created the first versions of PostPet in 1996, and the service was a hit almost from its November 1997 launch on Sony's So-Net ISP portal. In PostPet, users select an animated character (choose from Momo, Mini-Rabbit Mippi, Penguin Ushe, and Mysterious Machine Shingo, among others) to fetch and deliver mail. On the recipient's PC, your PostPet might decide to hang around, asking to be fed and petted. When the recipient answers the email, the original PostPet carries the message back to you, along with a report on how well it was treated while gone. "PostPets make everything about e-mail emotionally interactive," says Hachiya in a story this month in the new B2.0 (see link below). The story also says the service is "wildly popular," with nearly 3 million desktop and another 110,000 wireless users in Japan. US-based FunMail (character-based mail) and Animobile (character-based games, mail, social networking, etc.) are two character-based plays that are also enjoying some measure of success -- on wireless in Japan, that is. Tokyo-based i-Chara is another character-based play that uses social networking to earn marketing revenue. Cybird, the original generator of B2C contents on Japan's wireless Web, also offers mobile games. [...] ------ End of Forwarded Message -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
