yamareco - share your hiking activities
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Yamareco & MountRec
2012.1.23
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How do you find a good place for hiking / trekking around Tokyo?
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Ask Google?
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TIME WASTING
TO VISIT ALL
SITES
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Yamareco: Motivate to go hiking!
Build and share Trekking Logs w/members. includes Photos, GPS log, Notes and comments.
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Photo Notes
Hiking Photo Notes
Photo GPS log
Trekking Log Share & Use
Build Log
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Find hiking information in Yamareco!
Search and find Trekking Logs easily.
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Search data passing through
this area.
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Growing more than twice per year
Oct, 2011
7.8M pages viewed
370K unique users
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Oct, 2010
3.7M pages viewed
170K unique users
http://www.yamareco.com/modules/yamareco/ga.php?mode=all
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Current business to“maintain”system
Advertisement sponsors last year
Sell original brand items
T-shirt, Badge
Premium Plan Fee
315yen/month (about $4)
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Members
Kazumine Matoba (Founder)
Researcher
Virtual network, Network server, Cloud computing
Visiting Scholar at Stanford Univ.
Social network system w/mobile
Tomoe Matoba (Advisor, Designer)
Owner of Café FromHandToMouth in Tokyo
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Current and future planning
1. World-wide MountRec – English ver.
2. Collaborate with developers Web API, Be an app platform
3. More useful Smartphone Apps, Tweet, Check-in, Check-out
4. More communication Help to make team / find buddies
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Businesses potentials
With users
Mountain Gear Sharing / Recommendation Share affiliate income with users
Selling / buying / giving platform
Like eBay, craigslist Sell old gears, yearly report of trekking club, or etc.
With sponsors
Like facebook page Introduce some products with ads
Promote hiking tours
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