September 20, 2007

GMO Media Introduces Photo Test to Determine Compatibility in Love and Friendship

  • GMO Media Inc.

Tokyo – September 20, 2007 – GMO Internet Group company GMO Media officially opens the free compatibility test service Purican Kakumei – Love Compatibility. The compatibility test, available on the Purican Kakumei mobile web site building service for young women, analyzes images to determine compatibility between two people.
*Available on DoCoMo, au and SoftBank mobile devices (excluding some models)

About the Compatibility Test
Available on the Purican Kakumei site this service allows users to find out how compatible they are with another person simply by using their cell phone to send in photos. The person’s unique algorithms are analyzed and other factors observed to ascertain compatibility.



Use it test your compatibility with someone you know or even a celebrity.












Images

Choose from 4 tests

Friends test

Users can send in two individual photos or one photo of two people to test for compatibility in love or friendship. 
* Please visit the web site for more details

How to Test Compatibility
Using a photo of two people to test compatibility in love or friendship
(1) Take a photo of you and a friend, partner or potential partner using your cell phone.
(2) Go to the service web site and select Friendship Compatibility Test or Love Compatibility Test.
(3) Click on Start Test.
(4) An e-mail window will open. Attach the picture you took in step one and send it without changing the subject line text.
(5) You will receive a URL by e-mail. Click on the URL to connect to the site.
(6) Your test results are displayed.
 
Using two individual photos to test compatibility in love or friendship
(1) Prepare photos of the two individuals to be tested.
(2) Go to the service web site and select Friendship Compatibility Test or Love Compatibility Test.
(3) Click on Start Test.
(4) An e-mail window will open. Attach the pictures you prepared in step one and send them without changing the subject line text.
(5) You will receive a URL by e-mail. Click on the URL to connect to the site.
(6) Your test results are displayed.
 
Purican Kakumei
Launched in June 2007, Purican Kakumei, is a free mobile web site building site aimed at young women university students. The site offers extensive reading content for young women in addition to web site building features.

Special Features
1. Create, manage and view mobile web sites using a computer or mobile phone
2. Select from a huge range of templates aimed at women
3. Communicate with other web site builders
4. Use DoCoMo, au or Softbank pictographs
 
Introducing our Rabbit Collection Usacolle!
This cute rabbit can tell your fortune and will make you smile. Aloha rabbit and Cowboy rabbit are among 44 rabbits that appear on test results screen.


 

About the Rabbits
Usacolle Friends®(©MIND WAVE INC.)are cute and fashionable rabbit characters. These rabbits feature in many products including around 200,000 picture and puzzle books.
In 2007, IP4 Inc, the company that holds the merchandising rights for the rabbits, released a collection of rabbits designed in collaboration with women university students for Purican Kakumei. These rabbits in a range of variations and themes appear on the compatibility test results pages.

GMO Media Inc.
Part of the GMO Internet Media Group, this company operates media, content and e-commerce businesses. GMO Media PC and mobile media includes the cute blog service yaplog!, mailing list and SNS service freeml, online shopping promotion service PointTown, wallpaper download site Kabegami.com, and cell phone point program site PMMO.
 
Related Links (all links to Japanese language sites unless otherwise indicated)
 
Media Inquiries
GMO Internet Inc. Group PR Team
E-mail: [email protected] 

The GMO Internet Group
The GMO Internet Group is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services in Japan. We hold top domestic market shares in domain registration, web hosting and payment processing and we provide a host of other services including e-commerce solutions and Internet advertising to individual and corporate customers. Striving to redefine the industry and foster a vibrant Internet culture, the GMO Internet Group is continuously working to inspire enthusiasm in our customers and put smiles on their faces.

IP4, Inc.
Company Name
IP4, Inc. http://www.ip4.co.jp/   
Address
7F JTB Ikebukuro Building, 1-13-6 Higashi Ikebukuro, Nerima-ku, Tokyo JAPAN
CEO
Shinji Nomura
Business Description
■Character/entertainment licenses, planning and production
■Coordination and consulting
■Product planning, OEM production, free magazine
■Korean pop culture entertainment planning
Capital
¥100,000,000

GMO Media Inc.
Company Name
Address
Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
CEO
Teruyuki Mori
Business Description
■Media Content
■E-commerce
■Desktop business
Capital
¥262, 850,000

GMO Internet Inc.
Company Name
GMO Internet Inc. http://www.gmo.jp/en                             
(TSE First Section Code: 9449)
Address
Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
CEO
Masatoshi Kumagai
Business Description
■Internet Use Support (Infrastructure)
■Internet Advertising Support (Media)
Capital
¥9,651,750,000
 
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