ALL the things you love will come together on Nickelodeon and will give you one February to remember!

Start it off with a night’s worth of love themed premieres and new episodes as your favorite programs on Nickelodeon showcase something about match-making, secret romance, winning a date and maybe even possibly a lost love. Watch your favorite characters from Carly , The Naked Brothers Band and True Jackson VP get hooked on love. Catch the encore telecast on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) at 7p.m.

If you are seeing a lot of red on Feb. 14, it is not only because of the roses and the hearts, but also because this year’s Chinese New Year happens on Valentine’s Day. Reel in the Year of the Tiger as Nickelodeon presents a Chinese New Year special dubbed as Tiger Tales. Catch your well-loved animal characters in action as Animalia, Pat & Stan and Back At The Barnyard give you hilarious adventures from Feb. 8 to 14 at 1 p.m.

Kai-Lan says “Ni Hao!” to China. Yes, Kni-Lan gets a phone call from Yeye’s sister (her favorite great aunt) and agrees to travel halSvay around the world and take part in a naming ceremony of an almost 100-year old baby panda!

Indeed, the Chinese New Year will he more memorable with a new Ni Hao, Kai-Lan special, Kat-Lan’s Thp to China, which airs on Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. with an encore the next day, Feb. 15, at 1:30 pm.

Now, if there’s a sneak peek, there must be a great new show. Yes there is! The Troop, a series for tweens, is set to launcht It is Nickelodeon’s newest action-adventure series about three seemingly normal kids named Jake, Hayley and Felix, who, unknown to everyone else, are hiding a secret global mission—fighting off the monsters that inhabit the world! Tune in for the preview on Feb. 15 at 5p.m.

Finally, SpongeBob SquarePants is back with a Back-to-the-Past special entitled Barnacle Boy & Mermaid Man. On Feb. 26 at 6 pm, travel back in time with the happy yellow Sponge and his best bud Patrick as they visit their favorite superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. So whether it’s “I love you” or “Kung Hei Fat Choi” that you want to say, there will be a lot of love and festivity this February, especially from the channel where kids rule.

Bargain hunters in Asia-Pacific are using the Internet to seek out best buys from online merchants and auction Web sites, according to the Visa e-Commerce Consumer Monitor.

The survey found that the most important reason for respondents to shop online is to compare prices and save money (42 percent), followed by searching for bargains or discounted items (24 percent) and saving time (23 percent). The ability to compare prices and save money was the top reason cited for shopping on the Internet for respondents from Korea (54 percent), Australia (52 percent) and Japan (41 percent).

“Budget conscious consumers in Asia-Pacific know that some of the best buys are on the Internet. As online merchants across the world offer attractive promotions during lean economic times, there is no better lime for consumers to land cheaper buys from the Internet. From knick knacks to branded goods, online shopping is not only a smart way to save money, but is also a convenient way to browse a retailer’s full range of products whether at home or abroad,” Bob Joubert, visa country manager for the Philippines, said.

Across the region, more than three in five respondents said they have participated in online auctions-79 percent said they participated in an online auction on a local Website and 69 percent have participated in an online auction on an overseas Web site.

Heading the list, respondents from Hong Kong (91 percent) are the most likely to have participated in an online auction on a local Web site, followed by Australia (87 percent) and Korea (77 percent). Overseas online auction Web sites are most popular with respondents from Hong Kong (83 percent), Australia (72 percent) and India (71 percent).

“Online auctions remain popular among bargain hunters as it allows consumers to bid for products at prices they feel comfortable paying and helps keep spending within their budget,” Joubert said.

The survey also revealed that over the next six months, Asia-Pacific online consumers are more likely to spend more on local Web sites ($797) than overseas Web sites ($634), and respondents from Korea ($3,205) have the largest budgets for online shopping, followed by Singapore ($1,138) and Hong Kong ($1,062). Access in local currency in more than 200 countries and territories.

Could it be that blogs have become online fodder for the—gasp!—more mature reader?

A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn’t mean blogging is going away. Rather, it’s gone the way of the telephone and e-mail—still useful, just not sexy.

“Remember when ‘You’ve got mail!’ used to produce a moment of enthusiasm and not dread asks Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkinan Center for Internet and Society. Now when it comes to blogs, she says.

The people focus on using them for what they’re good for and turning to other channels for more exciting things.”

Those channels might include anything from social networking sites to others that feature games or video.

The study, released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that 14 percent of Internet youths, ages 12 to 17, now say they blog, compared with just over a quarter who did so in 2006. And only about half ‘in that age group say they comment on friends’ blogs, down from three-quarters who did so four years ago.

Pew found a similar drop in blogging among 18- to 29-year-old. Overall, Pew estimates that roughly one in 10 online adults maintain a blog—a number that has remained consistent since 2005, when blogs became a more mainstream activity In the US, that would mean there are more than 30 million adults who blog.

‘That’s a pretty remarkable thing to have gone from zero to 30 million in the last 10 years,” says David Sifry, founder of blog search site Technorati. But according to the data, that population is aging.

The Pew study found, for instance, that the percentage of Internet users age 30 and older who maintain a blog increased from 7 percent in 2007 to 11 percent in 2009.

Pews over-18 data, collected ‘in the last half of last year, were based on interviews with 2,253 adults and have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points. The under-18 data came from phone interviews with 800 12- to 17-year-old and their parents. The margin of error for that data was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.