Sixty percent of kids 8-17 expect to 1) get a game they didn’t want or a game for a console they don’t have, or 2) not get any or all of the games they asked for, according to a study by Weekly Reader Research cited by USATODAY. It also found that 80% of kids said [...]
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Celebrate the season with Windows Live™ Messenger and chat directly with Santa! Tell him what you want for Christmas, talk about life at the North Pole, and play holiday games with Howard the Elf.
Windows Live Messenger: Messenger Cafe
I thought this was cute– so passing it along to any of you with the tech-savvy tater [...]
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PaidContent.org has notes on Bob Iger’s keynote at the Sanford C. Bernstein Media Symposium today. On virtual worlds, Iger noted that the company would release a “Cars” virtual world next year that would cost millions–not hundreds of millions–to develop because it’s built on an existing infrastructure. That should help it become profitable “fairly soon after [...]
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Children’s television show Magi-Nation (on Kids’ WB! on the CW and CBC in Canada) announced that its online world Magi-Nation: Battle for the Moonlands will be going into beta in December. Magi-Nation, produced by Cookie Jar, will also see consumer product tie-ins in 2008–all part of Cookie Jar’s goal to “reach kids wherever they are, [...]
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Want a more clever (I avoid the word “educational” because that usually is kid-speak for “lame”) virtual world experience for your tween? Then look no further than MoshiMonsters.
Currently in Beta (early Beta, I was lucky enough to score an invite), Moshi Monsters is a new way of approaching the virtual pet world experience. [...]
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A Global Warning From The Kids of the World, a new special presented by Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, is scheduled to bow Sunday, December 9 at 9p on Nickelodeon. With the aim of reaching adults through kids and their personal experience and environments, the show features kids in different parts of the world [...]
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Facebook is reportedly facing a probe by the Information Commissioner’s Office, following complaints that users are unable to delete their accounts.
The social networking site allows users to “deactivate” an account, which prevents others members of the public from seeing it. However, the company doesn’t wipe all the user’s data – including photos and messages – [...]
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A massive security breach involving the personal information of “virtually every child in Britain” has occurred in the United Kingdom, The Guardian reports. It “could expose the personal data of more than 25 million people – nearly half the country’s population,” CBS News reports. The data concerns “families with children, including names, dates of birth, [...]
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Okay… I’m trying to mock up a list of all these VW’s for tweens/twids that are not live yet, or exists in early Beta. Please add more in the comments, thanks!
Bella Sera: Card game + virtual world based on horses/horse play
MoshiMonsters: Monster virtual world based on clever gaming and monster care– easily transitions to [...]
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If this doesn’t strike fear in the heart of tween parents everywhere… I don’t know what will. Please monitor SOMEHOW your kids tech usage… or at least talk to them about consequences of certain public choices, yeah? Thanks ahead of time.
p.s. I got that video off of the blog [...]
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