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42goals.com Adds Japanese Language!

プレス・リリース                                                                   2012年3月30日

お客様の毎日の目標を辿り、毎日の活動ログを維持するための簡単なWEBベースのアプリツールを開発する42goals.com（東京）は、今日（3月30日）、世界的な企業成長をサポートするために、日本語機能を追加することを発表いたします。今後、42goals.comは、新しい言語をロールアウトしていく予定です。

大多数のお客様から、追加言語の対応を要求していただいておりました。42goals.comは、以前から日本語に対応していなかったという事実があるにもかかわらず、とても多くのビジターが日本からお越しいただいております。当社は、当提供を通じて日本市場での当社の存在価値が高められることを切に願っております。

日本市場への参入をプロモートするに当たり、42gaols.comは、22個の無料アカウントを提供させていただいております。参加していただくには、下にあるメッセージをリツイートしていただくだけです。獲得者は、4月19日に発表予定させていただきます。

                      @42goalsは、プレミアム・アカウントを無料
                      で提供しています！参加者へこのメッセージを
                      リツイートしましょう。 詳しい情報はこちらで：
                      http://eventribute.com/p/aF18CS1g

今月初め、42goals.comは、Ganbatte365（東北地方太平洋沖地震後の再開発の認知を維持することを目的としたプロジェクト）の後援及びサポートを発表させていただきました。

42Goals.comについて

42goalsは、お客様の毎日の目標を辿り、毎日の活動ログを維持するための簡単なWEBベースのアプリツールです。お客様の目標設定し、毎日の経過を記録し、お客様の達成度をビジュアル化します。42goalsを使用していただくことで、タバコを止めたり、飲んだコーヒー数を数えたり、毎日の出費をログしていただけます。

お問い合わせ：info@42goals.com

関連リンク

http://t.co/RXm1jjQh - Ganbatte365を用いて日本へホープ（希望）・メールを送信してください

http://t.co/RXm1jjQh - 42goalsで無料プレミアム・アカウントを入手しましょう

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Press Release                                                     Friday, March 30th, 2012

TOKYO - 42goals.com, the simple web app tool for tracking your daily goals and keeping a log of your daily activities, today announced the addition of Japanese language capabilities to support its worldwide business growth.  42goals.com plans to continue to roll out new languages this year.

A significant number of its clients have requested support for additional languages.  Despite the fact that 42goals.com did not previously support Japanese, visits from Japan were very high.  We hope to improve our presence in the Japanese market through this offering.  

To promote its entry into the Japanese market, 42gaols.com is giving away 22 free accounts.  To participate, simply retweet the below message.  Winners will be announced Apr 19th.

                        @42goals is giving away premium accounts! Retweet
                        this message to participate. More info
                        here: http://eventribute.com/p/aF18CS1g

Earlier this month, 42goals.com announced its sponsorship and support of Ganbatte365, a project aiming to maintain awareness of the post-earthquake renewal of Japan.  

About 42Goals.com

42goals is a simple tool for tracking your daily goals and keeping a log of your daily activities.  It helps you to set up your goals, record your daily progress and visualize your achievements. Using 42goals you can quit smoking, count cups of coffee drunk and log daily expenses.  More information about 42goals.com is here.

Contact: info@42goals.com

Related Links:

http://t.co/RXm1jjQh - Send a Message of Hope to Japan with Ganbatte365

http://t.co/ruu9XIKV - Get a free premium account at 42goals!

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Send a Message of Hope to Japan with Ganbatte365

Today is the first anniversary of the devastating March 11^th earthquake in Japan. Although progress has been made, for some it may take decades to return to any sense of normality. 

Express your support with Goals42.com one year later by sending words & messages of support.  Ganbatte365, which is a non profit organization (NPO), makes it possible for you to do exactly that!  Manny messages that are received are displayed across digital signage throughout Japan.

To have your message displayed to thousands of people in Japan, simply: 

1) Tweet a message of support with the #kizuna or #G365 hash tags and your country name in square brackets,

or

2) Go to the Ganbatte 365 Facebook page and leave a message (again, mentioning the country you are writing from),

or

3) Email a message directly to kizuna@ganbatte365.jp

Please also have a look at some of the many Ganbatte365 videos documenting the recovery process in Tohoku at www.ganbatte365.jp/en or on the Ganbatte 365 YouTube Channel – all free for download and reproduction.

About Ganbatte 365

Officially endorsed by the Japan Tourism Agency, Embassy of Canada to Japan and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Ganbatte 365 aims to maintain awareness of the post-earthquake renewal of Japan - as it is happening - and channel messages of support from around the world to the people of the disaster hit region. Using social and digital media, Ganbatte 365 produces and disseminates worldwide videos of the recovery process, and compiles and provides messages of support from around the world to the people of Japan.

Quick links for sending a message

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ganbatte365

Twitter:  http://bit.ly/kzna-tweet 

Google+: http://gplus.to/Ganbatte365 

YouTube: http://bit.ly/G365-kzna 
 

About 42Goals.com

42goals is a simple tool for tracking your daily goals and keeping a log of your daily activities.  It helps you to set up your goals, record your daily progress and visualize your achievements. Using 42goals you can quit smoking, count cups of coffee drunk and log daily expenses.  More information about 42goals.com is here.

42goals acquired

Hi everyone!

I am excited to announce you that 42goals has been acquired by Richard S, a VC and entrepreneur from Tokyo, who has a particular interest in webdev and technology.

What does it mean for 42goals users? The project will run as usually, it will be just a new team of developers who will stay behind the curtains maintaining the service. Richard has clear plans to add new features and functionality long awaited since the last update.

I would like to thank all of you for it was really fun to run this project. In any case, I am not saying goodbye. I will be maintaining the project for until the new team gets over it and make sure the transition goes smoothly. Also, I am an active user of 42goals and you can follow me on my personal page checking how my PhD thesis goes ;)

Thanks again for supporting 42goals, me, and the new team.

- Alex Pak, founder of 42goals

Find friends, compare your goals!

Friends search

We have rolled another update allowing you to find your friends on 42goals or make new ones. On the new “Users” page, you can see all the recent users who has opened their profile. If you are logged in, it will also show you people located near you and those with similar information as you. On the same page, you may search people by their name, location, bio, and goals.

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We go social!

At last, we have just released a big and an important update. We have implemented a feature that was missing from the beginning but which is essential for goals achievement — social functions. Now, you can get a help from your friends or members of the 42goals community to motivate you. Let’s start digging into the new features!

Public profile

The first feature is a public profile. This is an exhibition page of your achievements. You can put here charts depicting your current progress on the goals you have set. Here is my page:

Reduced amount of caffeine consumption? Lost couple of pounds? Send a link of to your friends and impress them with your progress. Your public page is easily customizable. You can modify your charts and change the parameters you want.

For now, you can set up to 3 charts, but we will change that soon. You will be able to add more charts as well as to change the whole layout.

Let your friends to help you stay motivated

You public page has three tabs. The first one “Profile” is pointing to your charts. In the second one “Goals”, you can share your goals. To make them public click on edit icon

And voilà! Your friends now can see your goals and will help you to stay motivated.

Share your experience

The third tab “Posts” is where you can share your experience with your friends and the community. You made a progress this week? Write a small post, maybe it will be useful for your friends and might also help you to stay focused.

Signing in with Twitter and Facebook

Everyone now has an account at Twitter or/and Facebook (tell me who doesn’t?). But not everyone has an account at 42goals (at least not yet). To make it possible for your friends to cheer you on 42goals, we added sign in support for Twitter and Facebook users. With a single click they will become members of the community without any need to fill registration forms.

Well, actually two clicks:

We promise not to post anything on your wall without your permission, we just need some basic info perform the authorization process.

Updated charts

We have updates the visualization library, so the charts have a cleaner look.

While these were mostly cosmetic changes, we are preparing something cool in a next release (does a word “correlation” tells you anything? *wink*)

Bug fixes and etc.

• Fixed sorting goals
• Fixed wrong counting of monthly values
• Fixed wrong data aggregation when building charts
• Performance enhancements

New team member!

Our new team member joined us to help developing 42goals. She definitely keeps us motivated!Meet her here: http://42goals.com/about/

Coming up next

We haven’t pushed all the new features yet. Some of them are still in development, others are waiting until we obtain some critical mass of public profiles. So, you should create one ASAP!As usually, we need your feedback. Tell us what you think about the new features and what would you like to see next?

From our secret devlab

So, if you have figured out from the previous post, we are adding some social interaction for 42goals users. First, it comes with creating your own profile page, where you can put cool charts depicting the progress of your achievements.

There will be a tab with goals you want to share (you will choose which goals should be public and which ones should remain private):

We are also changing the chart constructor, trying to make it more pleasant looking and informative at the same time. We have added some new types of charts, like “area”:

While we are still working on new features, we would like to get a feedback from you. What would you like to put in your profile? What tools do you need to share your progress?