Hello from all of us at the Hatena offices in Kyoto. This is Aaron with another issue of our weekly news blog -- thanks for taking the time to check it out.
It's been getting warmer day by day in Kyoto and we're happy that spring is finally coming. We hope that it's getting warmer in your part of the world too.
To celebrate the holiday of Easter we are having a contest on Flipnote Hatena from March 19, 2010 until April 2, 2010. If you post a Flipnote about the topic of "Easter" to channel #7, you might be the lucky winner of 10 or 50 Color Stars that you can use with your Hatena account.
For more details and for the information about how to enter the Easter contest, please check out the URL below:
http://flipnote.hatena.com/campaign_easter This past Wednesday we posted the second edition of the Hatena Featured Artist blog, which features an interview with BOSS (id:Hate) from the Americas region. If you haven't seen the Hatena Featured Artist blog yet, please check it out at the URL below:
http://d.hatena.com/flipnotehatena/20100317/126881191 Thanks from all of us on the Flipnote Hatena team, and we're looking forward to seeing your Flipnotes!
This week's featured Flipnotes
In this week's edition of the Flipnote Hatena news blog, we're going to show you some of our favorite Flipnotes based on last week's topic "Space", and introduce our new topic for this week which is "Future Games".
If you post Flipnotes about the weekly topic, we might feature yours here on the Flipnote Hatena Weekly News blog next week and give you some rare color stars -- post your Flipnotes and join in the fun!
Lastly, scroll to the bottom of this blog entry to see Weekly Frog Sightings where we feature original frog photos and illustrations from users like you. Post your original frog photos to Hatena Haiku (post to the keyword "Frog Sightings") and we might feature it here next week.
Read the Flipnote Hatena News blog in your language
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Also, thanks to the help and support of MdM (id:MdMbunny) you can also read a translation of this blog in Italian, and id:Alex_BCN82 is now translating our blog into Spanish. Please be sure to check out the other language versions of the blog, since there are some differences between each version. It might be a good way to learn a foreign language too!
Also, please let us know any feedback you might have about our blog by posting your comments in the box at the bottom of this blog entry.
The best of last week's topic: "Space"
As of today, there were 1,990 Flipnotes posted by users from around the world for last week's topic. We've selected some of the best Flipnotes from the past week which we hope you'll enjoy.
You can see all of the Flipnotes posted by users for last week's topic at the URL below (be sure to set your content preference to Worldwide to see Flipnotes from all regions):
http://flipnote.hatena.com/ch/11538388622743834169
You can also see the Flipnotes for last week's topic posted from your own region by entering the command
via "Command Search" from Flipnote Hatena on your Nintendo DSi.
"Space" Flipnotes from the Europe & Oceania region:
★ Flipnote by Alexandreid (id:Ilias)
★ Flipnote by mikey★ (id:yoda432)
★ Flipnote by MASUROid (id:epninja)
★ Flipnote by fall goneid (id:nico24)
★ Flipnote by John (id:Bonggone)
★ Flipnote by POWER NIKO (id:power-niko)
"Space" Flipnotes from the Americas region
★ Flipnote by Nicholas (id:Crazycomics)
★ Flipnote by REDWARRIOR (id:CJF-REDY)
★ Flipnote by Dark (id:DarkGenji)
★ Flipnote by Lgames (id:LGames)
★ Flipnote by Ray (id:pokefan98)
★ Flipnote by RED YOSHI (id:redyoshi)
"Space" Flipnotes from Japan
★ Flipnote by Peregrine (id:Peregrine)
★ Flipnote by Gurantokuroru (id:gorira)
★ Flipnote by Shabadaba (id:midori_love48)
★ Flipnote by Yu-ki (id:sachi-1914)
★ Flipnote by Hotori (id:warashiyama)
★ Flipnote by SayachoÜ (id:a2342-1190-5003)
This week's topic: "Future Games"
For this week's topic we'd like you to post Flipnotes about what you think that video games and game consoles will be like in the future. See what you can create based on this topic, and post it to channel 8 from Flipnote Hatena on your Nintendo DSi.
We're looking forward to seeing your Flipnotes, and will feature some of the best ones next week here in the Flipnote Hatena Weekly News blog.
You can see all of the Flipnotes currently posted about this week's topic at the URL below (be sure to set your content preference to Worldwide to see Flipnotes from all regions):
Follow Flipnote Hatena on Twitter
We've started a Twitter account to keep you updated about the latest news and happenings at Flipnote Hatena.
Follow us at: http://twitter.com/flipnotehatena
Weekly Frog Sighting
If you are interested in having your frog photo featured in the "Weekly Frog Sighting" section of the blog you can post it on Hatena Haiku (post to the keyword "Frog Sightings") and we'll choose the best ones and feature them here.
Please submit only original photos/illustrations that you have created yourself.
This is an photograph I took a few blocks away from the Hatena offices in Kyoto on a rainy day.
Frogs are considered to be lucky in Japan because the Japanese word for frog, kaeru, has the same phonetic pronunciation as the word which means "to return".
If you keep a frog in front of your house, money, friends, and other good things you see off or give away may someday return to you.
Thanks for taking the time to read our blog, and please add a star if you enjoyed it!
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