This post is merely a gathering of news I want to have in one place regarding mixi.
neomarxisme: Friendster vs. Mixi, U.S. vs. Japan
MySQL Users Conference 2006 - April 24-27, 2006 - Santa Clara, CA
mixi and other SNS still all the rage � 世論 What Japan Thinks
from the inside, looking in � Mixi, the #1 Japanese SNS to IPO on September 14th
Mixi, Japan’s Biggest Social Network - Mashable!
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" � Archive � Making Mixi Better
Mixi going public in September at kenjimori.com
Unrelated- what's up with these weird Wordpress-generated icons in the titles of Wordpress posts?
that's not WP's fault (for once), it's something to do with character encoding and HTML entities. Yes Wordpress uses by default the "right quote" html entitie to separate elements in the title tag...
e.g.: the "title" of this page, the thing that gets displayed in the browser title bar, is "Gen Kanai weblgo: mixi.jp information", if this site were running a default WordPress template, it would read "Gen Kanai weblgo » mixi.jp information"
Somehow, somewhere in the process you are using for linking to these pages, the offending character is not being liked and/or it's char encoding is not being respected. Your site serves up as UTF-8 (which is good).
a) How did you harvest these links and b) what editor are you suing to post them here?