I can hardly believe it has already been three years since our official public debut. Some of you might be aware that ironically our website's birthday coincides with April Fools! To our readers, business partners, and affiliates, from all of us at The-O Network, we thank you for your support. We hope to continue to serve you for years to come.

As part of the birthday celebration week for our website, we got several things lined up in mind including a DOUBLE convention coverage this weekend, one for Sakura-Con in Seattle, Washington and the other WonderCon in San Francisco, California.

As for the website, we have some new exciting ideas we will be implementing:

Video Podcast Coverage

We will be filming at Sakura-Con as part of our new video podcast coverage. We'll show you some exclusive behind the scenes clips of us working at the convention and with various guests and attendees. We had previously tested this at various past events but they were typically unorganized

Live Convention Video Streams

With the filming and 3G streaming capabilities of Apple's iPhone, we had hoped to have everything ready by Sakura-Con but unfortunately it looks it may not be possible; however, keep an eye on our frontpage if we get live streaming working.

Japanese Music Artist and Album Directory

We have been looking to expand our music department, and we have been tinkering with the idea of a music management system for users to preview albums as well as rate and review them for the last week. It will integrate seamlessly with all current user's community accounts.

We will reveal more in the next few weeks!

Update: As we are heading to Sakura-Con and meeting with quite a few guests, we plan to bring back some souvenirs as prizes for next giveaway coming soon! Stay tuned...