Over the 22nd and 23rd of March 2011 1,138 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.0% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 17.8% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Perhaps an unreported follow-on question from Q3 was how people would use their mobile devices to gather information. For myself, I have found the one-seg digital telelvision feature on my mobile phone indispensable. Read the rest of this entry »
With Renho, the minister for power cuts, and television advertisements scolding us about using electricity due to ongoing shortage of generation facilities in the Tokyo and northward caused by a slight problem you might have hear something about, iShare took a look at if and how people were saving electricity.
Demographics
Over the 29th and 30th of March 2011, 1,697 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.3% of the sample were male, 3.6% in their twenties, 47.0% in their thirties, and 49.4% in their forties.
Every time my mother emails me she always comments about how stoic and resolute the people in the affected areas are when they are interviewed on television, so I’m sure she’ll be impressed by Q3B, showing that over a third of these in unaffected areas are saving electricity too. Areas south of about Mount Fuji or so are on 60 Hertz, so we cannot donate much electricity up to the 50 Hertz north, so there is no logical reason for us to cut back, but for reasons of moral support we are. Read the rest of this entry »
Keitai (mobile phone) novels are a type of work often written episodically with consumption on a mobile phone in mind, often in the style of email messages complete with slang, emoticons and emoji. This survey, goo Research’s 8th regular look at these keitai novels found that the percentage consuming them on smartphones had tripled since March of last year.
Demographics
On the 28th of March 2011 1,139 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 17.6% in their twenties, 21.8% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 16.0% in their fifties, and 11.9% in their sixties.
The increase in readership on smartphones is curious; it would be interesting to see how many of the smartphone readers were ex-mobile phone readers who had upgraded, as I would guess it would be a significant percentage. Read the rest of this entry »
To most (I hope…) Western men Ladies First and other chivalrous acts come as second nature, but in Japan what we take for granted is unusual or indeed embarassing behaviour for women to experience. This problematic chivalry was the subject of a recent survey by goo Ranking.
Demographics
Over the 19th and 20th of January 2011 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.2% of the sample were female, 8.5% in their teens, 18.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, 23.2% in their forties, 9.5% in their fifties, and 8.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This survey was for the women only.
I’m not sure of the correct etiquette for retrieving a soggy hankie – perhaps one should offer to wash it, but in the modern world I don’t think that would be acceptable. Number two is a strange one – accompanying text suggested that the blowing noise (as opposed to the slurping noise?) would be unacceptable, but blowing on your food is a no-no. However, again I’m not sure of the correct action in that circumstances. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research, as reported by japan.internet.com, took a look at home computer use, with the published report focusing on problems with them.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 25th of March 2011 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group answered a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 17.6% in their twenties, 21.0% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 16.0% in their fifties, and 12.6% aged sixty or older.
I don’t think I’ve had any particular problem with my PC in the last year, although my wife always has problems with Internet Explorer being too slow as she has millions of bookmarks, and repeated running of Flash fills up the memory in no time. Read the rest of this entry »
goo Research recently performed their 14th regular survey into internet advertising; this is their first reported survey since the earthquake, and it was noted that people living in certain of the affected areas were excluded from the survey.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 24th of March 2011 1,077 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.6% of the sample were male, 17.1% in their teens, 18.5% in their twenties, 20.9% in their thirties, 17.0% in their forties, and 26.6% aged fifty or older.
Despite Google constantly updating their AdSense system to make it more attractive for clickers, and despite my traffic steadily rising, but allowing for the yen depreciation, for the last three years my income has remained sadly flat. I do have contextual adverts in my custom search, but I think most of the people searching my site fall into the “almost never look at them” demographic! Read the rest of this entry »
I remember a promise of a single Osaifu Keitai electronic wallet on one’s mobile phone replacing a physical walletful of point cards, and judging from this survey by iShare into usage of point services it is a desperately-needed service.
Demographics
Between th 1st and 3rd of March 2011 1,108 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.2% of the sample were male, 18.6% in their twenties, 35.8% in their thirties, and 45.6% in their forties. All those questioned were pre-screened to select only those who had points saved up.
Having said that a unified electronic card service would be desirable from the consumer point of view, of course the corporate view is that the more people losing track of them the better. There are some moves towards unification, with T-Point and Ponta Point both setting up a network of companies, but what’s resulted is basically two parallel systems, with competitors in each industry choosing one side or another. Furthermore, it is only large chains that can afford to join, so small shops still stick with stamp cards or other isolated systems.
As for internet-based points, I have a good few but they’ve all got just a few hundred points each but with nothing available to change them for, so I have let more than a few expire. I also have about a quarter of a million air miles I should use one day before they expire too… Read the rest of this entry »
The 68th mobile research with goo, conducted by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at mobile video.
Demographics
Between the 8th and 11th of March 2011 1,020 members of the goo Research mobile monitor group completed a mobile phone-based questionnaire. 60.9% of the sample were female, 4.1% in their teens, 29.6% in their twenties, 37.0% in their thirties, 21.6% in their forties, and 7.7% aged fifty or older.
I’ve never watched video on my mobile; I have the feature to download from either PC or my Diga video recorder, but I don’t actually have a set of headphones for use with the phone! Read the rest of this entry »
Disasters are perhaps the most common spur towards reviewing one’s own preparedness, as this recent survey from iShare into preparedness found out.
Demographics
Over the 23rd and 24th of March 2011 1,773 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 72.6% of the sample were male, 5.2% in their twenties, 47.6% in their thirties, and 47.2% in their forties. The demographics seem a bit skewed, but the report does not say why, although given the questions perhaps it was for married with children respondents only?
As before, here is a list of various Red Crosses that you can donate to:
If you’re in Japan, may I recommend investigating donating your time or skills, not just money – I’m still investigating myself, so if anyone has any practical suggestions… Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 18th and 19th of February 2011 1,097 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 67.6% of the sample were female, 6.8% in their teens, 21.0% in their twenties, 32.1% in their thirties, 24.0% in their forties, 9.0% in their fifties, and 7.1% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Not being an otaku (basically a geek or nerd) myself (honest!) I cannot really comment on this, but I can quite imagine that comic and animation freaks would get quite hot under the collar when they see people breaking the otaku code. Having said “otaku code”, I decided to search YouTube for the phrase, and this is what turned up:
With Renho, the minister for power cuts, and television advertisements scolding us about using electricity due to ongoing shortage of generation facilities in the Tokyo and northward caused by a slight problem you might have hear something about, iShare took a look at if and how people were 
Keitai (mobile phone) novels are a type of work often written episodically with consumption on a mobile phone in mind, often in the style of email messages complete with slang, 
goo Research, as reported by japan.internet.com, took a look at 
goo Research recently performed their 14th regular survey into 
I remember a promise of a single Osaifu Keitai electronic wallet on one’s mobile phone replacing a physical walletful of point cards, and judging from this survey by iShare into 
The 68th mobile research with goo, conducted by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at 
Disasters are perhaps the most common spur towards reviewing one’s own preparedness, as this recent survey from iShare into 
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