Judging from the Google News coverage of the Hello Kitty Online Game the web is clearly abuzz about this latest MMO from Sanrio Digital.

The headlines range from “Move over Warcraft, Hello Kitty is here” to “A world full of love and free of hate”, it is quite amazing to see the levels of interpretation Hello Kitty can deliver to people who both know her, love her, and well “dislike” her.

It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out, in the meantime you can enjoy the official website of http://www.hellokittyonline.com

Happy Chinese New Year!

According to Techcrunch Yahoo 360 is being shut down.

Although I don’t quite agree with the statement that "nobody noticed" but certainly very few people in the Blogosphere with influence appeared to care which is probably the more relevant statement, because certainly Yahoo users (of which there are a lot) do care a LOT about their data and have raised concerns/comments etc. on this. We shouldn’t forget afterall that something "small" in Yahoo terms is probably still huge for most other organizations and companies.

The Yahoo blog states:

Many of you have asked if Mash, Yahoo!’s experimental profile service, will replace Yahoo! 360. We know this is an important question for many of you, and even more so given this news. We don’t have all the answers today, but we are testing solutions, including Mash, in order to provide a more integrated universal Yahoo! profile throughout the Yahoo! network.

The only thing I found interesting is that an announcement to "transition" Yahoo 360 doesn’t come with an actual coherent, this is what we will do, approach. Letting customers guess and be concerned about the continuity of the service is never a good thing, even if they assure them that data will be "kept". As of the time of this posting there were 1,554 comments on the Yahoo Blog related to this and a quick glimpse appears to reveal that most of the users are not interested in change and like it the way it is, others just appear to want to have bugs fixed and not anything new. I’m curious to see what they will do with the "new" Yahoo Social Network.

This Photo was taken tonight during Hong Kong’s “Moon Festival” or Mid-Autumn Festival with a view of Happy Valley. This festival is a traditional celebration to spend with family typically in all the areas that have had Chinese lnfluence, so especially in places like Hong Kong it is taken very seriously, it is also a time where there is a Full Moon.

This picture had an interesting backdrop of clouds, the sky and the bright lights of Hong Kong.

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Sanriotown has brand new themes, looking at my blog post you can see that! I’m using a Badtz Maru based theme. When you login to Sanriotown blogs, check on the New Themes section, you’ll find a lot of new themes to play with!

This is the same as the previous post but without the summary text.

It was remarkably easy, I used rsstool.sanriotown.com and then I used the following technorati search string of http://feeds.technorati.com/search/blog?from=blog.sanriotown.com It is not perfect, but this RSS Flash widget now provides you with an updated summary of what recent posts exist on Sanriotown using Technorati indexes.

This is a demonstration of how to use Dream Studio differently, it’s a multimedia player, so it can be used to not only play Videos or Slides, but also just MP3’s or soundtracks embedded in a webpage or a blog, the above is a perfect example. Dream Studio supports the uploading of separate sound files. Although I embedded the same song twice, you just have to click and play, and by resizing it it could actually be a media player. I re-embedded it below, but made the size even smaller (1/3 smaller) to demonstrate how it could look, background color I made black but it could be white or whatever you like.

Sega Toys has produced a home planetarium, particularly in a place like Hong Kong where stargazing is simply impossible. For my 2 year old Son it’s excellent because he loves looking at stars, and he also gets to learn about the Stars as I can add new constellations. The quality is surprisingly good, you need to place the Star “Egg” as I call it (as it’s shaped like one) high up if you have a high ceiling as it will get out of focus very quickly. I bought it for about 9,000 yen which is approx. 80 USD and it’s been great value for money, it comes in cool black or white.

• Size: 110 (Width) ×160 (height) ×110 (depth) mm
• Weight: about 660g (battery is excluded)
• Power Input: 4AA batteries not included
• Projection Distance: 2m to about 2.3m
• Projected Area: about diameter 270cm
• High brightness white 1W LED
• 2 disks included