Today Hatena Star is celebrating its 5th anniversary. The Hatena Star service began on July 11, 2007 and marked the milestone of 10 billion stars being used in February 2011. As of May 12, 2012 the total number of Hatena Stars that exist e…

As we previously announced, starting from 30 March, 2012 at 11:00 JST Hatena Color Stars removed from entries can no longer be reused. For more information about the reason for this change please see our previous announcements at the URLs …

Starting on 3/30/2012 Hatena Color Stars that have been removed from entries can no longer be reused. Currently Hatena Color Stars that are removed from entries (such as Flipnotes and comments) are credited back to user accounts and can be…

Today we introduced the Hatena Star Extension for Firefox that lets you add Stars to any website. In the past you could add Stars only to blogs that had installed Hatena Star. From today, Firefox users can add Stars to any website just by …

The following pages describe how you can customize Hatena Star images and icons. Hatena Star Diary – Let's customize your blog some more You will learn how to change the icons for the Star (), Add Star button (), and Comment button (), as …

From today, every time an ID is written in a Hatena Star comment, an ID call will be sent to that person. Every time a Username is written in the “id:hatenastar” format in a Hatena Star comment, an ID call will be sent that person if he/sh…

Today we introduced the Hatena Star Favorites API (application programming interface) that lets you gather information from your Favorites. As you know, Favorites are other Users who you have added Stars to within the past one month. By go…

With this new update, you can now set the font style of the figure that lets you know the number of Stars you have received. For example, the setting below will make the figure larger. .hatena-star-inner-count { color: #f4b128; font-weight…

From today, you will receive a daily Star Report in your Hatena Message The Star Report compiles the number of Stars you received on each entry on that day, and lets you know the number of Stars that were added by each User in an easy-to-r…

We have added a new Hatena Star function, allowing you to easily change images by altering settings on a style sheet. With this new feature, you can change the images used for the Comment Button, Add Button, and the Star in the following w…

We have added an application programming interface (API) that will compile information from your blogs registered with Hatena Star. By entering a URL like the example below, you can retrieve information from your blogs using JSON (JavaScri…

We have made modifications to enable editing of blog titles registered with Hatena Star. To make changes to a blog title, go to your Blogs page (e.g. http://s.hatena.com/username/blogs ) and click on the pencil icon next to the title. A wi…

We were experiencing a problem with Stars bunching up in a cluster when there were multiple entries with the same URL on one page in blogs that have installed Hatena Star. This problem has now been corrected. This problem was caused by the…

In the past, after registering an external blog on Hatena Star with an authentication token, all past entries were reviewed and connected to the User. With today’s revision, we can now obtain Favorites by locating the Stars that were added…

We have just completed updating the Hatena Star comment entry window. We have made the following changes: The comment entry window is wider, and now you can start a new line within your comment. To start a new line, press the Enter key whi…

The header at the top of your Hatena Star page now displays your Username instead of “Home.” http://s.hatena.ne.jp/ We made this change to help you distinguish the account you are logged into, and what page you have been linked to.

When using Internet Explorer, two small boxes were appearing when you moved your curser over the Star. We have corrected this, so now only the box containing the name of the User is displayed. We thank Yuichirou(his blog) for identifying t…

Comments and entries with no Stars have been appearing on Hatena Star pages and Groups’ popular entries pages. We now know that this was being caused by people who were not logged in to Hatena attempting to add a Star to an entry. Although…

We have corrected the problem of the character reference “&39;” appearing on the Hatena Star page when a blog has been entered. This correction has also been applied to all past blog titles. Yesterday, many titles appeared as “hatenastar&3…

We have just made modifications to Hatena Star to allow its use on voice browsers. With this update, we have assigned a tabindex attribute to the Add Star button, Comment button, and the Star so that you can add a Star or open a comment wi…

We have just made modifications to Hatena Star making it more difficult to add Stars without a Hatena Star code. In the past, Stars were sometimes added unintentionally just by accessing a page in order to add a Star to an image tag for ex…

Earlier, part of the Hatena Star comment window was appearing outside of the browser area. This has now been corrected so that the comment window no longer extends beyond the bottom of the browser. This is also effective for PhotoLife, a f…

The problem with Stars added to Hatena Star entries not being displayed properly at times has returned since last night. Emergency measures were taken to correct this problem, but it has recurred. For this reason, we find it necessary to i…

Hatena Star Diary - How to use Hatena Star on your blog If you can use Movable Type 4.x, WordPress and Blogger, you can easily set up through this revised document! We're working on Movable Type 3.x, TypePad and LiveJournal. Please wait. D…

We have just added a new page to Hatena Star that shows the most popular entries within each domain. Example : Most Popular Entries in Hatena Diary http://d.hatena.com.s.hatena.com/ If you want to check other Starred entry in any domains, …

This guide is for setting up Hatena Star with the default Movable Type 4 templates, because the entry title and permalink for the default templates in Movable Type 4 are set with the "h3" tag, you should only need to add the Hatena Star sc…

Visit Hatena Star and add your blog. After adding your blog you can get Hatena Star Javascript. http://s.hatena.com/ Click "Home". http://s.hatena.com/HatenaID/ Click "Blogs" http://s.hatena.com/HatenaID/blogs Enter your blog URL and click…

As of last night, there were occasions when the Stars added to Hatena Star entries were not being displayed properly. This was caused by an inconsistency in the program in one of the backend servers of Hatena Star. This error has now been …

Visit Hatena Star and add your blog. After adding your blog you can get Hatena Star Javascript. http://s.hatena.com/ Click "Home". http://s.hatena.com/HatenaID/ Click "Blogs" http://s.hatena.com/HatenaID/blogs Enter your blog URL and click…

We were experiencing difficulties with Internet Explorer not displaying all the Stars on a Hatena Star page that included many entries. This has now been corrected. With this update, pages that were not correctly displaying Stars (e.g. Hat…