日本雅虎于11月25日正式推出新的应用程序平台Yahoo! Appli，据游戏邦了解该平台上线的当天就推出了10款来自第三方的应用。

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日本雅虎目前是日本首屈一指的网站，和深陷在增长烦恼中的美国雅虎不同，日本雅虎更多地归属于日本软银，因此在战略决定权上面更加具有主动权。他们与google的合作而不是与微软bing的合作就是很重要的一个例子。

尽管美国雅虎的应用平台已经推出两年的时间，但是日本雅虎并没有相应推出类似的平台。

在最先推出的10款应用当中包括了脸部变形的应用，具体变形情况可以参看下图。其中5款应用是免费的，一款售价105日元每月，另外四款每月售价315日元。

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目前雅虎日本有了一个与DeNA合作于10月份推出的社交游戏平台Yahoo! Mobage。现在来讲如果Yahoo! Appli进入到社交游戏领域，那么他们与DeNA的合作就可能中途夭折。当然现在推出的10款应用当中并没有游戏应用。（本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译 转载请注明：游戏邦）

Yahoo! Japan announced [J] their entering application platform competition with new Yahoo! Application Platform (Yahoo! Appli). The release was done on November 25th and it launched on the same day with 10 third-party applications.

You might already know that Yahoo! Japan, No.1 website in Japan, is not really identical with U.S. Yahoo!, who has been having hard time these years. Yahoo! Japan is primarily owned by Softbank, and has free hands on their strategy. Taking Google’s search technology instead of Bing is a good example to show it.

Yahoo! Japan did not enter the platform competition, though U.S. Yahoo! had been running PC application platform for two years now. Like Y!J having independent account system (Yahoo! Japan account) from U.S. Yahoo!, this time’s platform is purely Yahoo! Japan only.

The initial 10 applications, which seems few as Yahoo! Japan’s launch, are two fortune-tellers, Bijin Tokei (beautiful girls photo clock), Karaoke, two face-photo morphing apps, house architects search, horse racing bloggers sentiment analyzer and Hello Kitty photo decorators (free and paid – enhanced version).

5 out of all 10 apps are free, 1 is 105 yen per month and the other 4 cost 315 yen per month.

Yahoo! Japan Opened social gaming platform Yahoo! Mobage with DeNA(Mobage Town)’s help since this October. Yahoo! Appli should be able to host social games, but if they do so, Yahoo! Japan and DeNA alliance will be into the air. All 10 first apps on Yahoo! Appli are non games, so Yahoo! Japan may be thinking to divide their PC application customers into game under Mobage brand, all but games under Yahoo! Appli.（source：asiajin）