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The MARIMORE Blog has moved.

2011-09-15T18:00:00.002+09:00

Hello、

In order to organize information better and establish a stronger company brand, we have moved this blog to a different address.

Going forward, announcments on services and press releases will be done on our 「MAMO Press」 blog. Instead of having a single post for announcments in English and Japanese, we will also be separating the posts by language.

For technology postings, we will continue those from our 「MAMO.tech - Technology in MARIMORE Inc.」
The technology blog will have contributions from myself, as well as from members of our engineering team.

We hope this will allow us to better communicate information to you, our readers.
Hope to see you again at our new blog!

MARIMOREブログの移動

2011-09-15T18:00:00.001+09:00

こんにちは、
MARIMOREのイクバルです。

今までいろんなプレスリリース、技術の話題やサービスに関する告知などを本ブログで公開させていただきましたが、情報の整理と自社ブランドを確立させるため、ブログの移転を行いました。

今後のプレスリリースやサービスに関する告知などは「MAMO Press - MARIMOREのプレスリリース」ブログで行わせていただきます。

また、技術に関する話は、「MAMO.tech - Technology in MARIMORE Inc」に移動いたしました。こちらは今後僕も含めて弊社の技術チームのメンバーが投稿していく予定です。

ブログのアドレスは変更になりますが、今後ともよろしくお願いいたします。

mariproperty.com version 2 released!

2011-08-16T18:00:00.004+09:00

Dear friends,

I am excited to announce that we have just released the next version of our anonymous property forums for Malaysia, mariproperty.com

The new release incorporates features we knew was necessary from valuable feedback we had from our users, and also a new design which makes browsing the contents easier. A detailed explanation on the new features can be found from our announcement page.

We hope that the forums will prove more useful to you, as you try to find that bit of information to help you purchase the property of your dreams.

新規サービス SMS送信API EZSMS リリース！

2011-06-01T00:00:00.002+09:00

English post is below

ご無沙汰しております。

6/1についに弊社の国際SMS・国際メールサービスMARITEXが利用してるプラットフォームをAPIとして公開しました。

EZSMSのSMS配信APIサービスを紹介します。

簡単のHTTPベースAPIで国際SMS対応できる国内、国外携帯電話にMARITEXと同様にSMSの送信ができます。SMSメッセージの送信のほか、「加入者情報」という携帯電話についての詳細情報を取得できるAPIも用意しております。SMS送信APIのドキュメンテーションも用意してあります。

ぜひとも、APIを利用してあなただけのサービスを作ってください。

Hello there! It has been a long time since I've updated this blog.

On the 6/1 we have released our latest service offering, SMS Delivery API Service - ezsms.biz which allows you to access the platform our personal SMS sending sevice, SMS in Japan for mobiles - MARITEX uses.

Other than allowing you to send SMS messages, you can also do so-called HLR queries, which will giv you detailed information on mobiles numbers.

Currently the site is in Japanese only, but we plan to roll out the english version in the near future. Stay tuned!

New outgoing networks for MARITEX

2011-01-02T11:21:00.002+09:00

日本語は下のほうにあります。

Dear Friends!

We are happy to announce that we have added new networks to our outgoing supported networks.

Sierra Leone - LINTEL (Sierra Leone) Limited
Spain - Xfera Moviles SA
Ukraine - OJSC UKRTelecom (Utel)
Uganda - Orange Uganda

We hope with this addition you'll be able to send to more friends and places.

皆様、
新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

シエラレオネ - LINTEL (Sierra Leone) Limited
スペイン - Xfera Moviles SA
ウクライナ - OJSC UKRTelecom (Utel)
ウガンダ - Orange Uganda

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。
今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

New outgoing networks for MARITEX

2010-10-29T21:43:00.008+09:00

日本語は下のほうにあります。

Dear Friends!

We are happy to announce that we have added new networks to our outgoing supported networks.

Trilogy Dominican Republic - Dominican Republic
Tacom LLC - Tajikistan
Celtel Madagascar - Madagascar
Vivo MG - Brazil

We hope with this addition you'll be able to send to more friends and places.

皆様、
新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

Trilogy Dominican Republic - ドミニカ共和国
Tacom LLC - タジキスタン
Celtel Madagascar - マダガスカル
Vivo MG - ブラジル

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。
今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

日本のキャリア宛のSMSメッセージ値下げ

2010-09-12T17:25:00.005+09:00

English text at the bottom.

皆様、
嬉しいニュースです！6/19より日本キャリアへのメッセージは1.5ポイントに価格改正を行ったですが、本日より1ポイントに値下げをいたしました！
どうぞこの機会でもっと便利にご利用をしていただければと思います。

いつも国際SMSサービスMARITEXをご利用いただきありがとうございました！

Dear Friends,
We have good news! From 6/19 the price to Japanese carriers was changed to 1.5 points per message. We are happy to announce that we are now lowering the price to 1 point per message for messages to Docomo and Softbank in Japan!

Thank you for supporting MARITEX SMS Messaging!

2000 users!

2010-08-17T00:00:00.004+09:00

English entry at the bottom.

皆様、
弊社の国際SMS送受信サービス「MARITEX」は8/17付で登録者2000人突破いたしました！皆さまのおかげで少しつづサービスを拡大できたと思っています。今後ともさらに便利なサービスにしていきますので、今後もよろしくお願いいたします。

Dear friends,
On 8/17 our international SMS service, MARITEX have reached the number 2000 for amount of registered users. We could not have done this without you. We will continue to strive to make the service better than before! Thank you for all your support!

PyCon APAC 2010 シンガポールにいってきましたー

2010-06-10T16:37:00.012+09:00

6/9から6/11までシンガポールに行われた2010のPyCon APAC にいってきました！
今回のPyConははじめてAPAC地域に行われたものなんで、かなり興奮していました。

最初の一日目はチュートリアルに参加しました。午前と午後に１セッションずつ。
おもしろかったのは、午前のセッションの "The Five Habits Of Test Infected Developers" というテーマのチュートリアルです。TDD (Test Driven Development)の開発方法の説明でした。これはとても興味深いで、実際に行っていけばアプリケーションコードよりもテストコードのほうが多くなっていくという。

2010のチュートリアルの内容はこちらから見れます。
カンファレンス自体の内容もかなりおもしろかったものです。プレゼンターの皆さんはガチガチでやっているという感じがなく、かなりルースな感じでプレゼンを行っていました。

いろんな方々とお会いできてうれしいです。プレゼンターの皆さんも自分のやっていることの説明を聞いていろんなPythonのユーザも、Pythonが活動しているところもあるな、という印象受けました。

今度日本からの参加者はミクルのメンバー以外、CMSCom寺田さん、アクセンステクノロジーの増田さんとビープラウドのイアンさんでした。

Python Software Foundation (PSF) の会長であるSteve Holdenも一枚ゲット！

下はホテルの近くにあるClark Quayです。飲み屋さんやバーがずっと並んでいましたー。夜になると若者達が集まってきます。

Developer data released on mariproperty.com

2010-06-05T10:11:00.005+09:00

日本語は以下になります。

While communicating with a few to-be home buyers, we've realised that the developer of a certain housing area or condominium is as important as the property unit itself. There are actually home owners who will refuse to consider a piece of property, no matter how attractive it is, if the developer of that property is not appealing to them. We then realised that an unbiased and open way to exchange information on property develoepors is also important; We've released information on property developers and you can now start discussions on specific property developers.

Property and real estate developer data released
View all property and real estate developers

先日新しいマンションまたは一戸建て購入を考えているユーザと話したら、物件のことももちろんだが、その物件を開発しましたデベ会社も重要な参考材料として使われていることわかりました。これをきっかけに、mariproperty.comでもデベ会社のデータを取り入れてスレッドを立てることを可能にしました。どんどんデベ会社の事情や情報を交換できる場にしていただければと思います。

Social Top Runners Vol.1

2010-05-28T23:00:00.000+09:00

English text below

今日は株式会社HatchUp開催の第1回のSocial Top Runnersのトークにいってきましたー
Social Top Runnersはソーシャルアプリの市場成功している会社・人・組織のことです。MARIMOREは特にソーシャルアプリを作るという企画などがございませんが、日本になかなかPythonという言語をメジャーに使う現場がないので、今回面白そうだったので参加させていただきました。

今回のトークでは２つの目的で行われました。
1. ソーシャルアプリのマーケットの今をシェアするため
2. 今回のトークを行う会社がPythonを使って開発を行っているところあるんで、Pythonの開発者にアピールして、会社にジョインさせるため

トーク行ったのは、3社ですけど、この会社さんすべて元々ソーシャルアプリを作ってる会社ではなくて、ブログやSNSを作ってた会社だったんですけど、mixiやFacebookのSNSの普及に伴ってソーシャルアプリのマーケットに参戦することに

株式会社gumi
株式会社ドリコム
KLab株式会社 (クラブゲーム)

各会社から最初にどのようなアプリを出しているのか、Facebookやmixiなどに成功の事例などを紹介。そのあと、各社からソーシャルアプリを作っているときの戦略や開発体制などの説明
最後にCTOや開発部長の方がでてきて、うちにジョインしてくれーみたいなアピール。

特に面白そうなのはgumi社。
PythonとDjangoも使っているし、EC2も利用している。ちなみにgumi社のec2費用は3万ドル/monthらしい。

ざっと各企業の話を聞いてみたら、ソーシャルアプリ分野は急成長の分野だと。共存関係で、SNSが商店街に例えるとしたらCP社は商店として、ソーシャルアプリは商品にすると、SNSの集客力であのドコモのimodeが300万のユーザを10ヶ月間かかったところ3ヶ月でできてしまうとか。
ただし、勝負がつくのは早くて、大体1年間で勝負がつく。マーケットシェアの1位 40%, 2位 20%, 3位 8% ぐらいで、勝負ついたらなかなか変えられない。(gumi社の国光さん曰く)

技術的な内容がやはりそんなに多くないかったけど、時間の制限もあるので、ほとんどビジネス面の話でしたね。総合的にはまぁ、よかったと思います。

Today I went to the first Social Top Runners meeting organized by KK HatchUp. Social Top Runners are the players which has been succesfull in the so-called social application market.
MARIMORE doesn't have any plans to create social applications, but I find it interesting to find Python being used in the social applications market and decided to join the talk to see if I can learn anything new.

The talk was done for 2 purposes:
1. To share the current state of the social application market space
2. Since the companies invited use Python heavily, it's a chance for them to reach out to the attendees and try to get them to join their development teams.

3 companies were invited to give the talk;
KK gumi
KK Drecom
KLab KK (read as "Club")

Each company gets up to the stage to introduce themselves and their services. They also explained their success stories of their applications which went on Facebook or mixi. Next the CTO person comes up and explained development strategies and appealed to the audience to join their team.

gumi was particularly interesting; They use Django and Python, and also utilize EC2 for their services. Their EC2 bill is 30K USD/month by the way.

Just by listening to the talk given, I get the impression that the social application business is a fast growing. Compared to DoCoMo's i-mode that took 10 months to reach 3 million users, Drecom pointed out it took them 3 months to reach the same amount of users.
gumi also explained that winners and losers get decided very early, within a year. Leaders usually will have 40% share of the market, going down to 20% for 2nd place and 8% for third place. Once the market decides on the leader, it will be hard to change the status quo.

There wasn't a lot of techinical talk, but more on the business side of things. Time was limited to to all presentors (15 minutes each) but overall I think it was an enlighting talk.

gmail.com now available

2010-05-14T22:09:00.003+09:00

We're happy to announce that MARITEX now support gmail.com addresses! We've had strong requests from Android mobile users who wants to use MARITEX but can't, so we've added support for gmail.com. If you're currently a MARITEX user, you can also now change your mobile address to gmail.com from the profile page.

gmail.com対応しました！android系のユーザの皆様に強い要望がありましたので、本日からgmail.comの「携帯」アドレスをご利用中のお客様もMARITEXをご利用いただけます。既にMARITEXを使っている方々にプロファイルページからgmail.comのアドレスに変更も可能です。

Facebook Fan Page

2010-05-14T22:02:00.004+09:00

MARITEX now has a fan page on Facebook: MARITEX Facebook fan page

If you use MARITEX, or just plain like the service, please come and join us. We'll be using the fan page to give out announcement on changes to the service, or all of us can just start discussing anything on SMS!

FacebookにてMARITEXのファンページを開設しました！
MARITEXをご利用いただいてるであれば、ぜひジョインしてください。

MARITEX: Mobile site released!

2010-04-20T00:00:00.000+09:00

日本語版は下のほうにあります。

We're happy to announce that the mobile site for MARITEX has been released today. We've had numerous request on a way to make points purchases without a PC and we hope that this release will make the service more convenient for our customers.

You can now

Make a points purchase
Edit your profile
Check your sent SMS/MMS status

All from your mobile by logging in to your member page.

本日MARITEXの携帯サイトをリリース致しました！

携帯サイトからも

ポイントの購入
プロファイルの編集
メッセージの送信状況の確認

をしていただけます。

以前からお客様の「PCなしでもポイントの購入できるようにしてほしい」という強い要望もありまして、今回のリリースでその要望に答えたいと考えております。今後ともサービスの利便性をアップして参りますので、よろしくお願い致します。

Even Google AdSense can't do this

2010-04-10T11:04:00.016+09:00

日本語版は下のほうにあります。

Since our version 3 release of the MARITEX SMS Service, we've changed the layout to include better exposure for our AdSense program on MARITEX. The intention of AdSense on MARITEX is two fold:

To monetize the traffic that we get due to the web sms functionality
And more importantly, to give our customers more access to information on products that they can find useful

No. 2 if especially important; When we started out MARITEX, we found out information on products for consumers (japanese or foreigners in Japan alike) that are interested in countries outside of Japan was very hard to find. You can find them in the limited English magazines, and even then most of these products were telephone cards for international phone calls. How about someone who wants to learn how to speak Nyanja, Bemba or even Thai?

When we had our site reviewed, one of the reviewers thought that the ads are misleading and "taking up space". Furthermore, the general perception of ads on websites is basically negative; No one clicks on them and no one really cares.

We thought so too, and we basically had our minds made up to stop the ads if it had effect on traffic.

But after a month of testing, we found out

That the clicks that we had increased by more than 100% in a day, compared to our previous version.
Most of the clicks were made in the member section of the website
There wasn't any negative impact on traffic

This made us think, and our conclusion is:

The high click rate means that the product information being advertised is actually useful
MARITEX's customers are genuinely interested in the products shown, and
Because they actually do click on the ads, they do not find the ads a nuinsance, and is giving them added value

Consumers are always interested in good and relevant ads, that help them make their lives happier and better. Ads owners get their ads clicked and get more people to know about them and buy their products. Ads publishers gets revenue when these ads gets clicked. It's a win-win situation for all

But there is a very important key point here: "good and relevant ads"

We checked what kind of ads are being shown on MARITEX, and we see that many of them are related to communication products, such as Skype and mobile rentals. These ads are mostly chosen by Google and automatically shown on the website. Since MARITEX is an international SMS messaging service, these kind of ads makes sense.

But we think there is further opportunity for all of us here.

MARITEX customers is a very special group of people. They reside in Japan, they have contacts outside of Japan, and because of these contacts, they are interested in countries outside of Japan. Sending SMS is also mostly done in English, so they might also be very interested in the English language.

Due to the nature of the service being inexpensive and based on mobile, they are also individuals who own a mobile phone, and are also interested in getting good deals for themselves.

As smart as Google AdWords, they are not able to go beyond the point of analyzing the website contents and taking the extra step of showing ads which is not related directly to the content, but very much related to the interests of the people that actually use the website. This can only be done by us human beings, and we believe this is where the opportunity is.

Other links of interests:

AdSense (For site owners wanting to get ads as a revenue source)
AdWords (For service owners wanting to get more customers from ads)

最新バージョンのMARITEX 国際SMSサービスをリリースしてから、より良いグーグルアドセンスプログラム(AdSense)による広告を露出をできるようにレイアウトを行った。MARITEXにAdSenseを出す意図は二つにある。

WebのSMSの機能により取得するトラフィックを収益化すること
そして、もっと重要なことは、お客様には役に立つ他社の製品の情報をより多く提供できるようにすること

２番は特に重要だ。弊社はMARITEXを始めたごろ、日本国外のことに興味をもっている消費者（日本人でも在日中外国人でも）は関連の商品や情報を見つけるのが非常に大変だった。情報源としてあっても、限られた外国人向けの英語の雑誌で、さらにそこに紹介されていたのはほとんどは国際電話用テレフォンカードだった。例えば、ベンバ語とか、ニャンジャ語とか、タイ語でも学びたいあなたでしたら、教えてくれるいい教室をみつけるのは本当に大変。

最新バージョンのMARITEXのサイトをリリースのときにレビューを受けさせてもらったが、そのときいただいた意見の一つとしては「広告は誤解を招くこと」と「スペースの無駄、邪魔」だった。いやー、確かにウェブサイト上の広告の一般的な認識はネガチブで、誰でもクリックしてくれない、誰でも見てくれない。

我々もそう考えて、トラフィックに影響を与えた場合、広告を停止することを決めていた。

しかし、テストの１カ月後、

１日のクリック率は前回のバージョンと比較すると１００％以上上がった
クリックのほとんどは、ウェブサイトのメンバーの専用ページで行われた
トラフィックにの影響が見られなかった

この結果を受けて、我々を出した結論としては

AdSenseによって出された広告は実際に便利や興味があるもの
「便利だ、興味あるな、、」と思ったからこそクリックするので、広告は邪魔や無駄のスペースになっていない

私たちは皆消費者で、消費者は基本的に自分の生活を便利にする、自分の人生を幸せにする、という関連性がある商品に必ず興味を持ちます。消費者に興味を持ってくれると、広告主は自分の広告をクリックされて知名度をアップできたり、商品を購入してくれたりなる。サイト運営者にとっても広告収益にもなるし、最終的にWIN-WINなかたちになる。

ここで重要なので、「関連性がある商品」のこと。

MARITEXにどんな広告が出てると確認すると、Skypeやレンタル携帯電話などの通信製品の関連な広告が多いと分かった。この広告はAdSenseが自動的に選んでくれて出しているわけだが、MARITEXも国際SMSサービスなので、通信関連の広告がでてるのは当然だろうな、と思っていた。

でも、まだまだだここにチャンスはあると思う。

MARITEXのお客様は非常に特別なグループ。日本に住んでいて、海外に連絡とりたいお友達や、恋人、家族がいる。SMSのよる連絡手段だから、主に英語で書き、英語にも興味があるかもしれない。

MARITEXサービスも格安という性質や携帯ベースのサービスのため、彼らは携帯電話を所有している個人であり、自分にとってお得な情報に興味を持っている方々だ。

AdSenseは賢いなモノで、サイトの内容を分析して関連性がある広告を出してくれてるけれども、その一歩先のことまではさっすがにできない。実際にそのサイトやサービスを使う人まで把握してその使っている人々の性質に対しする関連性がある広告を出すことまではできない。やはりそれができるのは、我々の人間だけだ。

これはそのチャンスだ。

便利なリンク

AdSense （広告を搭載するサイト運営者用）
AdWords（広告を出したい広告主用）

mariproperty.com Released!

2010-03-26T14:50:00.004+09:00

日本語版は下にあります。

We are happy to announce that we have just released a new anonymous forums site for property discussions: Mariproperty

Mariproperty aims to allow a better and open discussion on property in the Malaysian market. Users can search and start discussions on specific properties they have in mind, or on specific areas or issues. It differs from other forums site by being nearly totally anonymous (no registrations) and a very close connection with the discussed area or property.

It is our hope that mariproperty.com will bring value to it's users by allowing access to information on properties in an easy and neutral way.

Happy Posting!

マレーシア不動産関連の匿名掲示板サイト mariproperty.com をリリース致しました！
mariproperty.com は匿名で（ログインや登録不要）マレーシアに関する不動産情報をオープンな環境でディスカッションできるような場を提供致します。
一生一度の高い買い物で、できるだけたくさんの情報を一つの場所にまとめたい、という意味も含めて今回のリリースに至りました。

マレーシアに不動産のご購入を考えている方、ぜひ使ってみてください。

BitCash for MARITEX

2010-03-15T21:27:00.003+09:00

日本語は下のほうにあります。

We are happy to inform you that BitCash electronic money payments can now be used to purchase points on MARITEX SMS.

BitCash can be purchased at the BitCash site, convenience stores around Japan and at post office ATMs. Unlike convenience store cash payments, payments with BitCash will not have any lag time; Points will be added as soon as the payment was successful. If you do not have a credit card, this is the way to go.

BitCash can be purchased from 1JPY. You do not have to use all of yout BitCash credits after purchasing, which makes it handy because you do not have to go the the convenience store every time you want to purchase MARITEX SMS points.

For more information on BitCash, please refer to their website at here

2010/03/15 よりビットキャッシュ(BitCash)決済が利用可能になりました！

BitCashはどなたでも使えるインターネットのお金です。
電子マネー情報は、16文字のひらがなIDで管理されていて簡単・安心・便利に使うことができます。

BitCashは、BitCashサイト、全国約37,000店舗のコンビニエンスストアや郵便局のATMなどでご購入いただけます。
BitCashでのポイントご購入はコンビニーでの現金のご購入と比べると待ち時間（ラグ時間）がなく
決済ができたときにポイントの加算も行われますのでお急ぎのときにとても便利です。
BitCashについてはこちらをご参考ください。

MARITEX国際SMSのポイントをご購入の際にぜひご利用ください。
今後ともよろしくお願いします。

MARITEX: Version UP!

2010-02-23T22:52:00.003+09:00

日本語テキストは最後のほうにあります。

We are happy to announce that the latest version of MARITEX SMS Messaging has been released.

Below are the summary of changes in this latest release:

1. Sending from WEBSMS now costs 1 point instead of 0.9 point
2. Japanese messages are now supported
3. New Addressbook feature added. You can also send online SMS via the addressbook. This has been one of the most frequently requested feature!
4. You can now send to multiple recipients at once from WEBSMS
5. Design change to allow for better and useful ads from Google Ads
6. Invite a friend functionality
7. Better message status checking for MMS
8. Better Japanese contents
9. Better support for China networks
10. Automatic password setting tool if you forget your password via email. You don't have to email us to reset your password again.
11. Automatic HOW-TO via email
12. Convenience store orders via the mobile site has been stopped. This will be replaced with a different implementation in the near future

We hope that with this latest release, SMS text messaging from Japan will be a much better experience! Happy Messaging!

2010/02/19に国際SMSサービスMARITEXをバージョンアップしました。今回のリリースに伴って主な変更点は以下にばります。

1. WEBSMSからの送信は0.9ポイントから1ポイントに変更となりました。
2. 日本語のメッセージはできるようになりました。
3. アドレスブック機能を追加いたしました。
4. WEBSMSで複数宛先可能になりました。アドレスブックからの送信も可能になりました。
5. サイトデザインの変更によりもっと見やすく役に立つGoogleの広告に変更となりました。
6. お友達招待機能を追加いたしました。
7. MMSの送信状況をもっと詳しく見れるようになりました。
8. 日本語のコンテンツの強化
9. 中国へのネットワーク対応の強化
10. メールによる自動パスワード再設定
11. メールによる使い方メールヘルプ
12. 携帯サイトからのコンビニポイント注文は廃止となり、新規開発中です。

これでMARITEXのお客様にはじめ、国際SMSの利用をもっと便利に使っていただければと思います。

Happy Messaging!

Using django's generic views for listing objects

2010-01-25T14:39:00.006+09:00

Django comes equipped with generic views: A set of pre-made view functions that help you do repetitive stuff with less hassles.

One of the most common thing that you will do in a web application is to pull data from the database and show them to the user, as a list or table. Using django's object_list generic view, you can do this with minimum code.

An example of using the generic view



#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# import the generic views
from django.views.generic.list_detail import object_list
from models import MyObjects

def view_list(request):

   template_path = "mytemplate.html"
   response_dict = {}

   myobjects = MyObject.objects.filter(name__istartswith="Mike")

   return object_list(request, queryset=myobjects,
                      template_name=template_path,
                      paginate_by=3,
                      page=page,
                      template_object_name="templateobject",
                      extra_context=response_dict)

The above view will return to your template a list called "templateobject_list" which contains models of myobjects.
For more details on the parameters for object_list(), check the Django documentation here: Django object_list manual

New sites for marimorepy and mobiledjango

2010-01-22T17:15:00.003+09:00

We have moved the marimorepy and mobiledjango sites to the new URL below
marimorepy python libraries
mobiledjango django libraries for jp mobile

The documentation has also been updated, and I believe it will be easier for you to install and try the libraries out.

MARIMAIL: Google Analytics Email Converter

2009-09-22T21:26:00.005+09:00

日本語バージョンは最後にあります。

We're happy to announce the we've just released a simple tool called MARIMAIL: Google Analytics Email Converter.

MARIMAIL is your answer when you find yourself spending 10 minutes copying and pasting that 10 links in your email to your customers with the Google Analytics parameters that'll help you track the preformance of your emails. Click on the link above and find out more. Try it out too. It's free.

MARIMAIL: Google Analyticsメール変換ツールをリリースしました！
今回のツールは自動的にメルマガや広告のメールの中にあるリンクをGoogle Analyticsでメールの効果トラッキングできるように、パラメーター追加してくれるです。
日本ではまだまだGoogle Analyticsを使いこなせてない状況でもあるので、今回のツールを使って少しでもGoogle Analyticsを役に立つと思います。
無料でご利用になれますので、ぜひ使ってみてください。

mobiledjango released!

2009-08-29T16:40:00.006+09:00

We're happy to announce the beta version of mobiledjango, a collection of code to be used with the django platform for mobile terminals.

Originally we had built mobile django to work with JP mobiles. Currently all the code is JP mobile centric.

At the same time we're also releasing an open source version of the general purpose libraries that MARIMORE uses. We find these libraries useful in our work, and perhaps someone else might benefit from it. We'll be actively upgrading and maintaining these libraries as we use them in our projects.

Here's the project site for mobiledjango
And here's the project site for marimorepy

Mikle Inc. and MARIMORE

2009-08-02T18:08:00.007+09:00

We are happy to announce that Mikle Inc. has just hired MARIMORE to help out on their technical and business fronts.

Mikle Inc. is a company based in Tokyo specializing in collecting information from it's wide based of users and harnessing this information in bettering the lives of many.

What made us decide to work with Mikle is their unique working style and values; They are focused on making the best products and they have fun. They also strive to be perfect in their business, which are what MARIMORE also aims to be. They are also not tied to the conventional way of thinking, which we also believe in.

We believe that the skills that we have we be able to complement the knowledge and skill set of Mikle. We also believe that this partnership will allow MARIMORE to expand by increasing our knowledge on the consumer applications front.

With this partnership, I am confident that it will be a truly win-win relationship for both our companies.

Using Django

2009-03-04T18:43:00.014+09:00

The Django Project was released as a framework based on python and is designed to be a
"high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid
development and clean, pragmatic design."

Here at MARIMORE we use Django as our framework of choice for deploying web applications, and also for processing every other things as well, from data received through email to automatically producing reports and sending them through email.

The decision to use Django has more of a historical reasons than any other; I was trained in C on FreeBSD during my undergraduate days and have my roots in programming and data handling in that environment. Going through training in my first job at Sun Microsystems, we were exposed to many other scripting and programming languages, mainly shell scripts, perl and Java. For some reason or the other, I did not really latched to these languages. I did give Java a try though, but I think what made me lose interest was that it was not really an easy thing to integrate UNIX shell scripting with Java; I need to create some sort of a glue in the middle to make things work. I also find having to work with a lot of XML while trying to get JSP running with Tomcat was also not sexy. I blame all of this to my C background.

Going on board at Yahoo! Japan's Mail team first gave me exposure to Python. They used python for everything on backend operations there. There was 4 of us, 3 (including me) got into python while the other team member was more of a perl girl. The libraries and the web applications itself are written in C/C++ due to performance reasons. I hated that; Imagine having to muck with C/C++ code to change a small bit of output to the browser, and having to check that you've released your pointers and not stepping on someone's else memory.

The first MARIMORE service was Maritex. In it's first version, Maritex had PHP as it's frontend and we had python running in the back, sending and receving messages, talking to the db and parsing the XML. We moved to Django as it's front end engine for Ver. 2.

Currently we run Django everywhere; From the frontend to using it as the backend to automatically process remote emails. We have also created packages that will fit into django's stucture through middlewares and context processing to allow better integration with JP's mobile (read: keitai) environment.

Contact us for your Django needs.

The importance of Naming (or the over emphasis of it)

2009-02-01T00:00:00.000+09:00

During one of our internal discussions, we were discussing on the reasons why the sales for certain services were this while other were that. During the discussion the possibility of the name for the service or product being the reason for the slower growth was pointed out.

The logic was that the name doesn't connect to it's target market and don't ring a bell.

"Sure", I thought. The name doesn't ring a bell. The root cause of that is obviously the service or product don't have a good market share yet, and no active marketing was carried out the promote the service or product.

I believe Naming is important, but only up until so. The more important aspect of the success of a product or a service is, after all, the product or the service itself.

No matter how horrible your naming is, if the product is superb and does it's job well to satisfy it's customer's need, you might have a chance.

But if you have a great name, but the product sucks, well, you won't last long, since no one want's to use a product that doesn't work. Unless it's Windows.

Apple is a bad name. It's a name of a fruit, and might have been Pear or Durian or Rambutan or even Manggis. But as we all know, Apple Inc. is the company that created iPod and to a certain extent defined the modern desktop experience. They had other products as well, like the Lisa and Macintosh, which by the way, might as well be the names of the couple living two blocks down the road.

During these kinds of discussions, I try to stay focus on the product and on the customer. Are we connecting the two? Are we satisfying the customer? Are we bringing a specific solution to a specific problem? These are the questions we should first figure out the answers to, before we wonder of at thinking of a name or brand change.

On the other hand obviously locality counts to a certain extent on naming. In Japan it's important to have a name thet has around 4 syllables, or capable of being shortened into one, i.e ミスド、ドンキー、ヤフー or ミクシィ。Due to the trend of the Japanese that will somehow shorten a name to around 4 syllables or less, it will allow your brand to be easily remembered and have a shot at being a verb, i.e ミクシィしてる？ Even in Japan, it's also obvious to avoid using offensive words; You wouldn't want to name your company or product "株式会社詐欺万歳" for example.

As a bonus, here is a link to a name generator in case you're thinking starting your own Web 2.0 Service: Web 2.0 Name Generator

I personally like the Chinese way of naming; There is a shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur called "Sungei Wang Plaza" which literally translates to "The Money River Plaza". If you setup shop in the Plaza, you'll be in the river which flows money. The Chinese has a particular way of naming; See how they named the rooms and halls in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

It'll be interesting to find a so-called Web 2.0 company that has a name like "The Golden Horses".

Support for docomo.blackberry.com

2009-01-13T00:00:00.001+09:00

We are happy to announce that Maritex has started support for docomo.blackberry.com subscribers in Japan.

You can register from this page and choose docomo.blackberry.com from the dropdown menu. It's at the bottom since it's the latest domain added.

Happy Messaging!

New Year Campaign winners announced!

2009-01-09T13:33:00.004+09:00

On 31st Dec 2008 we announced the start of a New Year Campaign to boost SMS sending from our customers. You can read the announcement here

Congratulations to the winners. Your points have already been credited to your account.

A Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T00:00:00.001+09:00

We at MARIMORE LLC would like to wish all of you, our friends, customers, and partners, a happy and a properous 2009!

Maritex's New Year Promotion!

2008-12-31T00:00:00.001+09:00

To celebrate the New Year we have launched a new year promotion campaign. Below is the annoucement that we have on the website:

Automatically enter to win free points packages by sending messages during the next 4 days... The more you send, the better your chances of winning!
All messages sent during the period from 2009/01/01 000:000:00 to 2009/01/04 23:59:59 will represent one lottery ticket for each message. Therefore the more messages you send, the more lottery tickets you will accumulate and the greater your chances of winning. There is no extra cost to enter the lottery besides the usual cost of sending a message.

We will randomly pick winners after the lottery period and will contact the first, second and third places winners after the drawing is completed.
1st place: 500 points
(5000 yen value)
2nd place: 200 points
(3000 yen value)
3rd place: 100 points
(2000 yen value)

Any questions can be directed to: support@maritex.jp

So send as many messages as you can and good luck!

SMS Is Too Expensive

2008-12-19T12:00:00.001+09:00

Is a complaint that I hear all the time. It was also a complaint that I had and I griped about it a lot. From where I come from, and international SMS could be as cheap as 0.427EUR. In JP one of the carriers are charging you 0.809EUR/message. That's twice the price. And the purchasing power in the 0.427EUR market is 3 times less than that of people in Japan. Talk about expensive.

There are alternatives for people in JP of course: There are companies that will charge you as low a price as 0.121EUR but there are drawbacks: The covered countries are limited, and all of them are coupled with international calling pre-paid cards.

But if you want really cheap SMS, the best way to go is to get free SMS. Just go to Google and search for "free sms"; You'll get 11 million hits. Even GMail enables you to send SMS for free (albiet only for the US currently). AIM has been doing it since forever. The thing is, even these free SMS solutions didn't solve the problem.

The great thing about SMS (or keitai email in JP) is that they're mobile and ubiquitous: SMS is Anytime and Anywhere. It doesn't cut it to just be able to send SMS if you're in front of the computer. You might as well be sending emails. They're free too.

Another thing is that when you send SMS, someone is footing that cost. Nearly all of the free services will let you send a certain amount for free and block you out if you exceed a certain amount. These setups are not transparent and difficult to understand. They are not designed for everyday use. They are not Anytime or Anywhere.

Most of these services also uses a single number as the origin of the messages they send. It's too expensive for you to have numbers assigned to unique customers which you just can't predict when will come. This means that it'll only be a one-way communication for you: Friends receiving those messages will 1) not know who the message is from 2) can't reply to the message since these services won't know how to route those messages to you, since they don't know to which message a reply was sent in the first place.

So what we wanted was something really like what SMS is, but that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to use. Something easy to understand, transparent and easy to use. And while we're at it, we wanted something that we can also send pictures with. That's why we launched Maritex.

Maritex is not a 100% SMS service (since we're not a mobile carrier), but it's close, if you're sending from JP. All we do is open up the cheapest route and connect them together to enable you to have a cheaper and easy way to send your SMSs or MMSs. All JP mobiles now come with email sending, and using that you can receive and send messages like you always do. Maritex supports sending to 144 countries and if you buy the biggest package for 500 messages, you actually only pay 0.0809EUR per message (plus data charges from your carrier, of course).

All EUR rates above are taken as of Nov 27 2008 from http://www.oanda.com

Three Rules for Startups

2008-12-12T00:00:00.002+09:00

A friend of mine posted a link in Facebook to a blog entry by Mark Cuban on his rules for startups. Interesting.

I would like to add to this list my own personal rules when I started MARIMORE (and still is). Very simple, only three of them. I always believed that businesses are never static. They grow like any organism and will have to react to changes. So for any rule that you make, you'll have to be prepared to reverse them somewhere down the road.

But anyway, here goes:

Work hard
Stay healthy
Know where your money is coming from and where it's going to go

Working hard is a no brainer. It does not mean working long hours exclusively, but is more towards understanding what you have to find out to make things happen, figure out how to get that information and working to build things towards that end. Most of the time you'll need time to do this and that's where the long hours come from, but if you're smart and have invested time beforehand to set in place processes to help you get those information, it won't take as much time when you have to repeat the process again.

An important pre-requisite to working hard is to love what you do. Have passion for it. Knowledge too plays an important part: The norm is that you won't have the passion for something that you don't know. Likewise, you seldom see people having passion for something that they don't give a dam about. It's beyond I if passion or knowledge comes first, but in MARIMORE we only do things that we know about and love. This gives us the drive to continue improving and making things happen. This drive is important when you only have a handful of people and little money to move around.

The second rule also is a no brainer, but I find it suprising that it seldom gets mentioned in your everyday "rules for startups". I only realized this when I went to Terrie Lloyd's Entrepreneur's Handbook Seminar sometime around a year ago. Terrie explained that the most important element in running his business is being healthy. Which makes total sense.

If you're like us, you'll have a business with a small stream of steady revenue coming in from different sources. You have ideas you want to turn into reality which will help to grow the business, but you don't have that big pile of cash to burn through for a year. So you take up consulting work to supplement that stream of revenue, to make sure everyone has something to eat and to push your ideas to see the light of day. Basically you're boostrapping the business and the key to making all this happen and click is, that's right: You.

Most of us who have day jobs and a check waiting for them at the end of each month usually don't realize this but the saying "time is money" believe me is really not far from the truth. The key ingredient to growth is time, but if you're not healthy physically you'll be busy taking care of yourself and you won't have time for the business.

So staying healthy is of a prime importance. I personally take supplements daily, try to include as much exercise in my daily schedule, like using the stairs and not the escalator, walking to the station instead of taking the bus. Gurgle and wash your hands often. Take your vaccination. Make sure you have medical and dental insurance. And also remember to stop working and take a break when your mind and spirit says "enough!". Usually I go to the hot springs then. Oh and watch the food. You are, after all, only the sum of what you eat.

The third rule is just general business common sense. No company in this world does not have it's own finance. As the one who decides if a company sinks or floats (remember, your decision plays the bigger part, not Lehman Brothers, R.I.P or what Google is building next) I believe you need to have grips on how and where your money is. Based on this information you'll know which vendor is trying to pull your leg and which vendor's leg you can pull, to give yourself the extra leverage to go win more customer's hearts. You'll also know if that espresso machine or that company trip is going to save you on taxes at year end or not.

So far these three simple rules have guided us down the path of growth for the past year. I'm pretty sure these rules can be ported to different sets of organisations, so I'm releasing these Three Rules For Startups under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License to be shared by every one on this planet (or off it).

There.

偉大なヤフーのカスタマーサポート

2008-12-05T00:00:00.007+09:00

このあいだ残念なことに妻はヤフーの音楽サイトからダウンロードしてきたいくつかの音楽ファイルの代金の支払いが失敗しました。
結論からいうと、いろいろの手違いで、オンライン支払いができなくて、伝票でコンビニ払いになったが、その伝票が配送されましたよーと言われながら未だに届いてない。結局未払いのままで、以下のメールが届いた

From: customer-support@yahooda.com
Date: 2008/11/14
Subject: 【重要なお知らせ】Yahoo! JAPAN サービス全面停止のお知らせ〔お支払い期限：11/27〕
To: hogehoge-xxxx-1234@hogohoge.com

*******
このメールは、ご登録メールアドレスにお送りしております。
*******

Yahoo! JAPAN ID：imadanikanewokurenaianatayo 様

Yahoo!ウォレットカスタマーサービスです。

メール上部に記載いたしましたYahoo! JAPAN ID では、
Yahoo!ウォレット登録支払い方法にてお支払いが完了していない
ご利用料金がございました。

そのため、これまでコンビニエンスストア払込票をお送りし、
Yahoo! JAPAN の有料サービスご利用料金のお支払いをお願いして
まいりましたが、現在までに入金の確認がとれておりません。

よって、Yahoo! JAPAN 利用規約、Yahoo!ウォレットガイドラインに
照らし合わせ、Yahoo! JAPAN ID のサービスの全面利用停止と、
将来にわたってのご利用制限を実施いたしました。

◇Yahoo! JAPAN 利用規約
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/docs/info/terms/

◇Yahoo!ウォレットガイドライン
http://wallet.yahoo.co.jp/html/guidelines.html

Yahoo! BB ならびに同サービスに付随するサービスにつきましても、
Yahoo! BB サービス会員規約(約款)等に則り利用契約を解除させて
いただきますので、ご了承ください。

◇Yahoo! BB会員情報 - 会員規約
http://provider.bb.yahoo.co.jp/terms/

該当ID には、今月あらためてコンビニエンスストア払込票をご登録
住所にお送りいたします。

送付先は、登録のご住所（Yahoo! BB をご利用の場合は回線設置場所の
ご住所、Yahoo! BB をご利用でない場合はYahoo!ウォレットに登録
されているご住所）となります。

※払込票の発送は、11月 14日（金）から順次行っております。
到着まで 5日ほどかかりますので、今しばらくお待ちください。

お支払い期限は、11月 27日（木）です。

お支払い期限を過ぎた払込票は無効となりますので、お手元に届き
ましたら、お早めにお支払いをお願いいたします。

==============================================================
■未納料金のお支払いについて
==============================================================

11月 27日（木）の支払い期限までにお支払いが確認できない場合は、
未納となりましたご利用料金の今後のお支払いについて、弊社が契約する
債権管理回収会社よりご案内をいたします。あらかじめご承知置きください。

恐れ入りますが、今月発送する払込票にて期限内にお支払いください
ますようお願いいたします。

※すでに全面利用停止後のお支払いとなりますので、払込票にてお支払い
いただいた場合でも、該当するYahoo! JAPAN ID のご利用再開はいたしません。

==============================================================
■Yahoo! JAPAN サービス全面利用停止の経緯について
==============================================================

該当ID では、先月お送りした払込票での未納をもって、すでに
全面利用停止を適用しております。

全面利用停止の適用後は、有料無料を問わず全てのYahoo! JAPAN
サービスをご利用いただけなくなっており、ログインも行えません。

払込票でのお支払いをお願いする際は、今回同様、発送にあわせて
ご登録のメールアドレスあてに、ご案内のメールをお送りしております。

全面利用停止の適用までに、ご案内のメールにて送付先となる住所の
確認方法や、未納が続いた場合の措置について、重ねてご案内を
差し上げておりました。

そのため、払込票が未着だった場合など何らかのご事情を伺いましても、
該当するYahoo! JAPAN ID のご利用再開はいたしかねます。
ご了承ください。

また、全面停止が適用となりましたお客様には、別のYahoo! JAPAN ID
取得による利用を含め、再度のご利用をお断りいたしております。

誠に恐れ入りますが、何卒ご了承くださいますようお願いいたします。

以上、よろしくお願いいたします。

------------------------------------------
Yahoo!ウォレットカスタマーサービス
http://help.yahoo.co.jp/help/jp/wallet/
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まぁ、代金未払いでサービスを止めさせられるというのは一般的なことで無理もなく理解ができるが、上のメール一番インパクトがある文書は

そのため、払込票が未着だった場合など何らかのご事情を伺いましても、
該当するYahoo! JAPAN ID のご利用再開はいたしかねます。
ご了承ください。

また、全面停止が適用となりましたお客様には、別のYahoo! JAPAN ID
取得による利用を含め、再度のご利用をお断りいたしております。

いろいろカスタマーサポートとやりとりしていたみたいんだけど、消極的な答えしか得られませんでしたー。id自体がもう無効になったから、それがどうにもならない。

結局のところ、「伝票が届いたら払ってね。けど払ってくれてもアンタのidを廃止する。あとー、別のidを取ってうちのサービスをつかうこともやめてー」ということだよね。停止されたidの再開利用をさせないから未払い金を払う意味もないし、その上にキッパリと縁を切る。

オイラとヤフーのサービスは長い付き合いだったのよ。１０年ぐらいちかく、まず通常のメールアドレスとしてY!メールを使わせてもらっていた。そのあと、路線情報や、天気、オークション、ショッピングなどなど、使わせてもらって、広告もクリックして実際に買い物まで至ったケースもある。未だにまだ大事なメールなどもY!メールアカウントに保存されているし。お金の話にしたいならば、この１０年間の付き合いで、少なくとも何万円か確実にヤフーのトータル売り上げに貢献しているはずだ。

それでも、何百円の未払い金のせいで「もう知らんぞ」というのはどーうかと思うよ。確かに詐欺師とかだったら再発防止としてこのような対応は適切だと思うが、うちらが同じ扱いで客を喜ばせるかよ。もちろん、詐欺師や悪質の常習犯客かどうか最初にはわからないと思うけど、その見分けるデータって、アンタの手に全部あるんだから、本当に払いたくない人なのか、払いたくてたまらない人なのか、いい客なのか、ただの詐欺師なのか、という判断はアンタの仕事だろう。その対応ができなくて客に迷惑をしているのは、本当に上等だね。

こんなカスタマーサポートはやっぱり偉大のヤフーしかできないだね。ヤフーは何らかのご事情を伺いましても不公平な扱いを感じた一人二人の客に逃げられても損はないね。

どんな商売をするにあたっても、一番大事なのは公平に扱われるということだ。これは売る側でも、買う側でも同じこと。「やすっ！」と思ったら買う側は「ラッキー、得した！」と思うのは当然で、買う側として全然公平な取引だから文句なしでお金を渡す。逆に売る側は客を喜ばせるためにそこまで値段を安くすると店は潰れてしまったら売る側には不公平だからしたくないだろう。一方、あまり高い値段に設定すると、買う側は高いから「なんでそこまでは払わないといけないの？」と不公平に思うだろう。

うちも同じ感じで、公平に扱わせてもらいたいだけ。未払い代金の伝票が届いたらコンビ二に払うから、そのあとidをまた使わせたい。あとは普通に人生を送りたいだけ。それでもできないのは本当に不公平で、本当に残念。

やっぱり偉大なヤフーはザ・オンリーワン企業だね。おめでとう。

Book review: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It

2008-11-28T00:00:00.007+09:00

Is the name of a book that I've recently purchased which explains what they call ROWE: Results-Only Work-Environment.

This book explains a pilot project which was exercised at Best Buy that allows employees total freedom of their time, i.e you can do your work anytime, anywhere and even say no to your boss if your think that a particular work is not worth your time doing.

The authors Cali Ressler and Jodi Thompson (their website here) stresses how we are all tied up to the "old" way of working; How we are judged by our time in the office instead of the actual results that we produce from our work.

The book also explains that in this world of ours, we are constantly bombarded with responsibilities and demands, personal or carrerwise. The dry cleaning, meeting up with friends, picking up the kids from school, the morning meeting at 9 or the weekly reports that we have to send in: These are all demands that we have to attend to but the reality is we do not have the controls to do that. The controls here point to our ability to manage our time. We do not have the controls because we are tied down to a system that was placed a 100 years ago, which most probably had less demands and responsibilities compared to what we are facing now and did not predict that we will get to this point.

Quoting from the book:

When people have high demands and high control, their life can be hectic but manageable. They figure out what needs to be done and when.
When people have high demands and low control, their life is both hectic and miserable. There is nothing to figure out. They are trapped in a system that piles on the demands but denies them control to meet those demands.
This is why work sucks.

The book also touches on how the relationship between the manager and the employee changes when they do decide to throw away office time and schedules. The most stressed out word here is trust. You will have to give unconditional trust to your employees or team members to act like responsible adults and deliver, instead of goofing off. The manager and her team members must also agree beforehand on what will they be evaluated on, i.e in what shape will the results of their work be. As long as those expected results are delivered, there is to be no question on how those results are achieved. This in the end, the book says, will strengthen communication instead of weakening it, since the whole team now is focused only on the work and results.

Overall the book gives you a good explaination on what is ROWE, what was their experience and the resistance they initially had when they converted bit-by-bit the workforce at Best Buy to ROWE. At the end of the book they give you tips on how to bring the cause of ROWE to your workplace and how to deal with the skeptics.

The book though does not tell you how to actually roll out ROWE at your workplace. I think the reason behind this is that no two workplace is the same, and while they have the a set of guides that says what and what's not a ROWE, it will be up to the people of those workplaces to find a way to make changes to their working style to match with what ROWE is all about.

Personally I find this way of working fascinating, and is actually what we are trying to achieve. Not so much because I am in the IT industry and we all deal with data all the time and physical presence is not a requirement, but because how the company is set up right now in such a way that we can't afford to look only at people who we can see everyday. Outsourcing or off shoring for example is now not an alternative for us, but more of a necessity to keep everything running and not have to pull straws to see who gets paid this month. By having someone do work without physical presence means that you are forced to look at only one thing to decide if we're getting somehere: The actual results.

The need to be physically present at the office or factory for work for a specified period of time started a long, long time ago, before I or you were born. At that time it was abused too such an extent during the Industrial Revolution and saw women and even children working in poor conditions. With working conditions unregulated, the health, welfare and general well-being of working people suffered. The 8-Hour Day Movement started sometime a century ago to limit the time of work, and since then when we say work, we mean that we are expected to be at the office or factory for 8 hours a day. After more than a 100 years, this practice of attaching time to work still continues. I believe now we come to a point in time that instead of the amount of time actually spent, we should be judged by the value of the results from our work. Time, in it's essence, is actually priceless.

Web SMS released

2008-11-15T18:35:00.018+09:00

We released a new tool to compliment the mainly mobile Maritex SMS service today, called Web SMS. Web SMS allows you to send SMS messages through the web browser if you have access to a computer using your Maritex account.

You can access Web SMS by first logging in to your account here and then following the link called "Web SMS".

The biggest difference between sending messages via Web SMS and through your mobile email (other than one is through the browser and another via email) is that it is significantly cheaper to send through the browser.

One, you do not get charged data charges by your carrier like when you send email, if you're the few unlucky ones not on a flat data plan.
And two, the price for sending SMS via Web SMS is 0.9 point, a 10% discount from the usual 1 point when you send your messages via email.

We all also know that when you're in the office or want to write a long message, it's better to use the computer keyboard than typing using your mobile's keypad. The From number in your messages will be set to your SMS number, so replies to your messages will be sent to your mobile.

In the current release, you can only send a message to one person at a time and there are no address book features, which means you have to remember/write the phone numbers (bleah!). Depending on how things go, we will make changes to these to make messaging easier with Maritex.

THE MORE THE MARI

The MARIMORE Blog has moved.

MARIMOREブログの移動

mariproperty.com version 2 released!

新規サービス SMS送信API EZSMS リリース！

New outgoing networks for MARITEX

We are happy to announce that we have added new networks to our outgoing supported networks.

We hope with this addition you'll be able to send to more friends and places.

皆様、新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

New outgoing networks for MARITEX

We are happy to announce that we have added new networks to our outgoing supported networks.

We hope with this addition you'll be able to send to more friends and places.

皆様、新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

日本のキャリア宛のSMSメッセージ値下げ

English text at the bottom.

Dear Friends,We have good news! From 6/19 the price to Japanese carriers was changed to 1.5 points per message. We are happy to announce that we are now lowering the price to 1 point per message for messages to Docomo and Softbank in Japan!Thank you for supporting MARITEX SMS Messaging!

2000 users!

PyCon APAC 2010 シンガポールにいってきましたー

Developer data released on mariproperty.com

Social Top Runners Vol.1

gmail.com now available

Facebook Fan Page

MARITEX: Mobile site released!

Even Google AdSense can't do this

mariproperty.com Released!

BitCash for MARITEX

MARITEX: Version UP!

Using django's generic views for listing objects

New sites for marimorepy and mobiledjango

MARIMAIL: Google Analytics Email Converter

mobiledjango released!

Mikle Inc. and MARIMORE

Using Django

The importance of Naming (or the over emphasis of it)

Support for docomo.blackberry.com

New Year Campaign winners announced!

A Happy New Year!

Maritex's New Year Promotion!

SMS Is Too Expensive

Three Rules for Startups

偉大なヤフーのカスタマーサポート

Book review: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It

Web SMS released

皆様、
新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。
今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

皆様、
新しく送信対応ネットワーク加入しましましたので、報告いたします。

皆様もっと便利に使っていただければと思います。
今後ともMARITEXをよろしくお願いいたします！

Dear Friends,
We have good news! From 6/19 the price to Japanese carriers was changed to 1.5 points per message. We are happy to announce that we are now lowering the price to 1 point per message for messages to Docomo and Softbank in Japan!

Thank you for supporting MARITEX SMS Messaging!