MSN beats Yahoo! for chat in Japan
iBridge Research Plus recently conducted a survey into video chat, although the portion that japan.internet.com chose to report on was just on chat in general.
Demographics
On the 15th of February 2010 300 members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% of the sample were female, 11.7% in their twenties, 39.7% in their thirties, 33.7% in their forties, 12.7% in their fifties, and 2.3% in their sixties.
I don’t do chat at all, although I have used Skype as a telephone.
Oegaki chat was a new one to me – this is chat through a handwriting interface. I found an interesting article describing this phenomenon that gives a good background on what exactly it is.
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