New Opportunities For Skinners

How Stardock's Partnership With Samurai Works Helps The Community

Samurai Works is Stardock's partner in Japan and represents Stardock's interests in Asia. Not only has this relationship benefited both companies, it creates new opportunities for the skinning community.

- Skinners from the US and Europe can reach new audiences.

- With the forthcoming localization of SkinStudio into Japanese, we will see an influx of Asian skinners.

- Corporations in Japan are interested in using desktop themes and Widgets/Gadgets as part of their marketing efforts.

Given Japan's penchant for new technologies, the success of Object Desktop should not be surprising. Beginning with WindowBlinds, which was localized last year, and continuing forward with DesktopX, SkinStudio and ObjectDock Plus, have been embraced by the Japanese public and corporations alike.

One of the benefits to this is that we are establishing new communities. In addition to the https://www.wincustomize.jp site, Samurai Works has also established the MySkins site at www.myskins.jp

Although new, this site is already receiving over 2,500 unique visitors a day and is expected to break 100,000 unique visitors in the month of March. About 5,000 people have already become members of this site.

We encourage skinners to give permission to have their skins hosted on the Japanese sites. It is an easy way to increase your download numbers and to help create a new skinning community.

We urge all WindowBlinds, ObjectDock and DesktopX authors to contact [email protected] to give permission.