Flipnote Hatena: helping users flip out with Flipnote Studio

For those of you out there that own a DSi and picked up the recently released Flipnote Studio application, here’s a website that can help you share all your creations. It’s called Flipnote Hatena and what it does is allow users to upload and share their silly little flipnote animations with the world.

Visitors can view Flipnotes made by users, rate them, comment on the ones you like, and easily post Flipnotes you like to your blog or other websites.
To do all this, simply connect your Nintendo DSi to the Internet to access Flipnote Hatena where you can post your Flipnotes, view everyone’s Flipnotes and rate the Flipnotes that you like. Easy peasy.

File sharing site The Pirate Bay going legit

You can’t make this stuff up. Stockholm, Sweden-based Global Gaming Factory X AB (or GGF, if you like) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the notorious The Pirate Bay website (www.thepiratebay.org) and plans to legitimize it. Won’t regular users of the web site be surprised! Technology company Peerialism has developed next generation file-sharing technology that it plans to roll out on the web site, along with a new business model that allows compensation to content providers and copyright owners. The responsibility for, and operation of the site will be taken over by GGF in connection with closing of the transaction, which is scheduled to happen sometime in August.

GGF has also entered into an agreement to acquire all the shares in Peerialism AB. Peerialism AB is a homegrown software technology company with origins in KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science. The deal will give GGF control of the company new file sharing technology and employees.

One of the company’s biggest road blocks? Financing. GGF says that it intends to issue new shares in order to obtain the necessary financing for the acquisition. We’ll keep you posted.

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