My name is David Hurley. I come from the UK and work as a free-lance English language instructor and "consultant" for various Japanese clients here in sunny Hiroshima.

I'm also an Internet marketer in several niche markets, such as:

What does all that have to do with a blog called "Notes From The Tiger's Cave"?

The tiger's cave is Japan... the unknown... the new... the untraversed.

The tiger's cave is the Internet.

As a name for this blog it is inspired by a Japanese proverb:

"Koketsu ni irazunba, koji o ezu."

"If you don't enter the tiger's cave you won't catch the cub.








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Go Tweet Some Japanese Emoticons! (^^)


Want to spice up your boring tweets on twitter.com?? Stick a Japanese emoticon on the end! There are hundreds of these creative little character doodles and they are a lot of fun.

Here are a few to get you started:

(^_^)/ Hi!
(^0^)/ Hi there!
( ^^) smile
(^O^) glad!
(~o~) yawn
(^-^;) cold sweat
(-_^) wink
(`O`) sing a song
(@_@) What???
(~^~) I’m proud
m(__)m
(^_^)/~~ bye~~
(=^_^=) a cat
(o|o) Ultra-man

They’ll only take you so far. For more info about emoticons check out Paperdiaries.com, the site of a certain Ms. Aya, where I found the ones listed above:

http://paperdiaries.com/2008/09/guide-to-japanese-text-emoticons-and-chibi-facial-expressions/

Ms Aya’s blog is an enjoyable read in its own right (or “write”), and Ms Aya ain’t necessarily what you might suppose… but she is a cool Asian lady!

I found Ms Aya’s blog on Google when looking for a specific Japanese text icon to tag onto the end of a Valentine’s Day Tweet - see, http://twitter.com/hirohurl .

Twitter is a great little tool and every day more and more resources are appearing on the web.

Want to see how your Twitter following compares to your friends’ and rivals’ - see http://twittercounter.com/

If your graph is looking a bit “limp” :oops: you might be interested in this new free resource which will get you a whole bunch of new followers WITHOUT having to follow them first - http://tweetergetter.com/hirohurl .

You don’t even have to give up your email address, and it takes less than 30 seconds to sign up and go!

David Hurley
Internet Marketing Success Strategies



One Response to “Go Tweet Some Japanese Emoticons! (^^)”

  1. Thurman Brannock Says:

    by the way keep up the fantastic website.

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