Hey everyone! Good news! We’ll be having the following schedule for blog entries:

 Monday: Announcements, Trivia, News, Anything Goes!

Tuesday: Technology: Highlights on the new Sanriotown features!

Wednesday: Video of the Week: A user-created video will be put up. Check it out if yours is featured!

Thursday: Tutorials: How-tos of using Sanriotown, be it DreamStudio, Blog, the Forums, whichever!

Friday: Sanrio Character Feature: Focus on one of your favorite features, be it new ones, classic ones, or those that are certified blast from the past!

East meets west once again! Everyone’s favorite white feline and the puzzle-loving blue dog have gone into a joint venture in products.

Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) and Sanrio has announced a multi-faceted creative partnership. This includes an exclusive co-licensing joint venture and master license agreement to develop Nickelodeon’s hit property Blue’s Clues in Japan.

Imagine Hello Kitty and Blue together on the road to solve puzzles and meet new friends along the way.

For more information about the partnership, read the original article at Global Giants.

Fans came to witness Hello Kitty’s coming-of-digital-age when Sanrio Digital was launched in “Hello Kitty: Kiss the Digital Future”  Tuesday, November 21, 2006 .

The event, which was held between 2-4 p.m., was held on G-Bar from Harlans, Fourth Flr. Podium, TWO IFC in Hong Kong. It heralded the team-up of Sanrio Wave Hong Kong Co. Ltd.  and Typhoon Games, whose partnership produced the all-improved Sanriotown website. Among the changes made were the addition of the new features of Dreamstudio, Blog, and Kitty Shop.

 On the side is the limited edition Christmas Hello Kitty boxset currently available for pre-0rdering

The launch proved Hello Kitty’s  staying power, the versatility accounting for more than 30 years of being the world’s most loved cat.

 Below are some more pictures taken from the event.

Hello Kitty toasts with Sanrio Digital Chairman Hiroaki Nishino and Director David Kim

At center is Sanrio Director Katherine Geicke 

The Sanrio Digital Board of Directors

Hello Kitty be-ribboned computers, anyone?

WHOEVER said Hello Kitty is old news will be surprised with Sanrio Digital, the new, improved version of Sanriotown.

The revamped site features multimedia at its finest: from the creating and viewing of videos in Dream Studio, to the sharing of comments in Blog, to the score rankings in Games, to the exchanging of ideas in the Forums. These not only allow users to make the most of their time in Sanriotown, but also give them the chance be interactive and get in touch with other people from all over through the various interactive media provided for them. Dream Studio lets them make and direct videos from scratch that they can share to others, even linking their creations to other websites. They can also maintain their own online journals with Sanrio Blogs. They even get a chance to compete with their friends via the addition of Rankings in Games. They also get the chance to purchase limited edition Sanrio items or even design their own Sanrio products they can only get in Sanriotown.com in Kitty Shop.

Users get all these new stuff along with the Sanriotown features they came to know and love: a 500 MB-sized mailbox they can choose to upgrade for even bigger space, file cabinets where they cans save their important documents to take them virtually anywhere with an Internet connection, and forums where they can chat with other users about just about anything under the sun. They can also get to send E-cards and download wallpapers, graphics, clips, calendars and more with their favorite Sanriotown character emblazoned on them.

With the multimedia fest in Sanriotown, people can experience the latest that technology can offer. Not bad for a 32-year old cat.

EVER thought that listening to music is bland and flipping through photographs boring? You can combine both activities to have a completely different experience in Flash movies by using Dream Studio, one of the new web-based features of Sanriotown.

Prior experience with the program is not necessary; all that is needed is a computer with an Internet connection, an Internet Explorer browser, and a bunch of photos, video clips, and mp3 files to be an amateur director/producer. All they need to do is upload their files on the slides on Dreamstudio and mix-and-match these to create these. A combination of the three (pictures, clips, mp3) can even be made if users so desire. They can then add text and special and transition effects to further polish their work. The result? A solid Flash video from the user, by the user, and to the users. That’s right: other people can view what has been created. A maximum of 99 slides is available for each presentation, allowing a lot of room to be creative in this multimedia offer.
To see a sample of a product of Dreamstudio, click here or see below.

Go to Dreamstudio and give yourself, your friends, and the world an audio-visual treat.