Today Twitter launched the mobile version of their website in Japan, which is a good announcement because Japanese is the only foreign language on the Twitter Platform, at least for now.

As you can imagine, this move is obviously related to the great presence that the mobile version of Twitter has in the US, and they have hopes that many people adopt the same tool. In order to make this happen, Twitter worked in cooperation with Digital Garage Inc. from Tokyo in early 2008, to create the mobile platform.

To make this move with sense, Digital Garage made a study and concluded that 95% of the Twitter Japanese community uses their cellphone to access the site.

The new Japanese mobile version was jointly developed by Twitter and Digital Garage, and is compatible with Japan’s major mobile carriers and the quirks of the local market. Emoticons can be embedded into messages, and users can directly update their profile without having to turn to their PC.

Flickr, the popular company that works as a photo sharing service online, has updated the mobile version of their website and now offers support for more handsets and provides additional features as well.

With that being said, the new Flickr mobile version was made to be used with the iPhone, the G1, Samsung SGH-L870, and with all the Nokia smartphones using the S60 3rd Edition. If you’ve got any of these cellphones and use Flickr, the following functionalities are now available:

- add contact
- add favorite images
- change privacy settings
- change permission settings
- playback Flickr videos (that were uploaded starting yesterday)

Flickr Mobile Site