And keeping up that million-per-month pace, the game hit 5 million downloads just over a week ago. Since its initial release back in November, the game has gone on to hit three million downloads on February 25th, and then 4 million on March 26th. So while I’m on the topic of Japanese tower defense games today (see my post from earlier today on GotchaWarriors), I thought I’d take a moment to update you on Battle Cats, a game that has been a favorite of mine over the past year. When I interviewed Kyoto-based Ponos last month, the publisher behind the uber-cute game, they confirmed that merchandising was in the… Serkan Toto today pointed out a Battle Cats collaboration with Princess Punt Sweets, and I’m sure efforts like this certainly help out a little. Of course Battle Cats – or Nyanko, as it is called in Japan – doesn’t have non-stop TV ads like P&D, so I think this is a pretty impressive feat. Now I don’t want to make any radical comparisons here, but that’s not far off the pace of Gungho’s hit game Puzzle & Dragons, which has been picking up a million downloads every three weeks or so. There are also services like Gtitter (a playful variant of the word ‘ vent’) which allows users to complain about things anonymously. For example, to avoid the possibility of having your boss read your angry or dissatisfied tweets, there are interesting solutions such as Arrow which we featured recently. Japan appears to like such self-destructing services and solutions that provide anonymity on our increasingly social web. Note that if data is deleted as a result of misuse, the company says it will not be held accountable. Such a case would be perfect for Inspector Gadget (see the video below for some fun 80s nostalgia!) is available for just 3,980 yen, or about $41. Your HDD/ SSD can be divided into three partitions, but only one can be encrypted. When there is no access to the encrypted drive (for a maximum of 999 minutes), the content will be locked and will require a password. In addition to this self-destruct feature, the device has automatic locking as well. The data can be preserved up to a maximum of 9,999 days. The period of data preservation can be set by using a dedicated utility available on the Century website for both Windows and Mac. When there is no access to the encrypted drive for a set period of time, the encrypted key is automatically deleted thus making it impossible to access what’s inside the drive. A Japanese company called Century has released a hard disk drive case called Jigen (CT-25-ERP). This self-destruct feature is not limited to just services. Likewise Twitter app Efemr allows you to post self-destructing tweets by adding a dedicated hashtag to your message. For example, the photo sharing app Snapchat has become popular among teenagers, now boasting over 150 million photo shares per day, each one with a limited duration viewing period. But very recently, we’re seeing a lot of services built around the concept of expiration dates. Whether it’s a Facebook post, a tweet, or a photo, the general understanding of web and digital content used to be that it lives forever. When there is no access to the encrypted drive…
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