Memolane to Partner with Digital Garage on Japan Localization

Social media scrapbook/timeline service Memolane just announced on its blog that it will be creating a localized version of its service for Japan. It has enlisted the help of Digital Garage as a partner and an investor, in its efforts to serve the Japanese community.

Our regular readers will recognize Digital Garage as the company that helped both Twitter and, most recently, LinkedIn enter the Japanese market. It is also the company behind the Open Network Lab incubator in Tokyo.

Memolane says that outside of the US, Japan has been its largest market. And given that the many social services that Memolane supports (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc) are also popular in Japan, the service should do as well as it has stateside.

Photo-sharing app Instagram is a supported service as well, and it also enjoys a large following in Japan. Co-founder Kevin Systrom spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday, so be sure to check out our report on that.