http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com About the Internet, Stuff and being a father in Hong Kong Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:19:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ARMONK, NY & HONG KONG - 15 January, 2009 - IBM (IBM: NYSE) has announced its intent to acquire the strategic messaging service assets of Outblaze, Ltd, a privately held provider of online messaging and collaboration services, based in Hong Kong. Building on IBM Lotus' market leadership in messaging software, ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2009/01/16/ibm-announces-intent-to-acquire-outblazes-e-mail-service-assets/ Amazing...and a fantastic service and contribution towards free culture. The full post is here and reposted down here.   Dear Reader, Since July 1, more than 125,000 of you have donated $4 million. In addition, we've received major gifts and foundation support totaling $2 million. ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2009/01/05/wikipedia-raises-6-million-dollars-most-of-it-from-donations/ Newly purchased items from the Hello Kitty Online Item Mall, a monocle and a face tattoo! Also, if you look at JamJam, that's a seriously cute looking cuddly outfit, very fitting for HKO! http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/12/19/my-new-look-inside-hello-kitty-online/ For those of you who haven't been paying attention, Hello Kitty Online MMO has started an interesting event called "be nice to a newbie". What was interesting in this event was how new players suddenly got great offers for their gear, and many were saying how this was "much ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/10/25/new-event-inside-hello-kitty-online-has-interesting-effects/ So on my first day inside HKO, trying out the game, the first order of silliness was lining up and taking a group photo as below, so we all lined up, and everyone took group pictures. Some players referred to it as the reason they liked ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/10/10/first-order-of-silliness-of-the-day-inside-hko/ Hello Kitty Online successfully launched its Founders Beta! I'm online now, find me in-game as Yggdrasil http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/10/10/hello-kitty-online/ This is a phone camera shot of the Autobild 1 Event in Geneva. http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/05/27/auto-1-show-in-geneva/ Very cute video blog introducing Hello Kitty Online from a user experience point of view and introducing the game element, well made entry. http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/05/16/hello-kitty-online-user-vlog-entry/ Here is a screenshot of a bunch of people building a house together in a social setting in Hello Kitty Online, in this case the house is almost finished but it takes many hours to finish it as a group, and days if you do it solo! Here 5 of ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/05/07/hello-kitty-online-social-house-building/ That's right everyone, the 23rd of April is the opening date, so even if you get your package today or a few days ago, you won't be able to play until the 23rd! Can't wait to see the results of this! http://blog.sanriotown.com/ysiu:hellokitty.com/2008/04/20/hello-kitty-online-game-closed-beta-opens-23rd-april/