NHN Japan to Release New 'Timeline' and 'Home' Social Networking Features for LINE

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NHN Japan to Release New 'Timeline' and

'Home' Social Networking Features for LINE

PR Newswire

TOKYO, July 3, 2012

TOKYO

,

July 3, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- NHN Japan Corporation has announced

that it will release new 'Home' and 'Timeline' features within the very near

future for its free-calling and free-messaging app 'LINE' (http://line.naver.jp/).

The announcement took place at the first ever 'Hello, Friends in

Tokyo

'

conference held at the new Shibuya Hikarie Hall on

July 3

.

These new 'Home' and 'Timeline' features allow friends who are connected to

one another on the LINE service to share their recent developments in their

lives, in real time. NHN Japan believes that in addition to the existing 'Free

Calling' and 'Free Messaging' functions, these new social networking features

will lead to further promoting and energizing as well as enhancing

communication between users.

The first new addition is 'Home'; "a personal space, created by LINE for you."

Users now have their own page where they can share and update their recent

developments with the use of photos, videos and location information as well as

normal text. It also allows users to express their own personalities by

customizing their own page with the use of cover photos.

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"It's never been so fun to 'Like' your friend's posts!" Of course, normal

commenting functions are available. However, users can now respond with a

single tap, using popular LINE stickers which show an array of instant emotions.

Your friend's posts can be shown by tapping the profile photo upon entering the

friend's 'Home' screen, and this provides users with a new way of

communication and expression.

The second new feature is the 'Timeline' which allows users to share their

recent developments in a timeline format amongst their LINE friends. As with

the 'Home' feature, users can use stickers to express their feelings towards the

posts as well as commenting on them directly. 'Timeline' and 'Home' functions

are linked, which means that user activities at 'Home' will also be reflected on

the 'Timeline'.

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As always with the developers of LINE, privacy is at the top of the list, which

means that posts will only be shown between users who have added one

another as friends. Furthermore, in regards to other users'posts, the user can

select whether these posts are shown or hidden from view.

The third new feature, 'LINE Channel', functions as a platform service for

integrated apps/services within LINE. Users can keep up-to-date with their

friend's activity history within these integrated apps as they will be posted

automatically to the Home and Timeline screens, as shown below.

How the new features work within LINE's existing framework

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NHN Japan will continue to improve existing features as well as pursuing the

expansion of its integrated services to provide an ideal platform for

communication.

About NHN Japan Corporation

NHN Japan is the local affiliate of Korea's premier Internet company, NHN

Corporation. NHN Japan is headquartered in Shinagawa,

Tokyo

, with Akira

Morikawa as CEO.