Aimed at social networkers under 14, Disney Xtreme Digital will allow them to create their own “personal mini Web sites” as in MySpace only with parental controls, Reuters reports. Parents will be able to monitor interaction, and “a chat feature requires parental approval for kids to go beyond trading canned messages designed to prevent users from revealing personal information, or from using … [Read more...] about Disney’s social site for tweens
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MySpace, Chinese-style
Tom won’t be your friend if you join MySpace in China. A Chinese person will be, the New York Times reports. MySpace China “faces stiff competition from China’s home-grown Internet companies, including Baidu, Tencent, Sina and 51.com, as well as dozens of other MySpace.com-like Internet start-ups.” So its parent, Fox Interactive, is not going down the bumpy road other US Internet companies took in … [Read more...] about MySpace, Chinese-style
Closer look at mobile social networking
Phones as personal location devices. That’s one big reason why cellphones are joining computers as social networking devices (the other being that people have a lot of fun sharing media on phones). Friends and family can find each other’s physical location and get together or blog about their locations as they go. “Location-based services (LBS) represent at least a $750 million market in 2007,” … [Read more...] about Closer look at mobile social networking
Lawsuit over student’s MySpace photo
A student has sued her school for denying her a teaching degree “because of a MySpace photo,” the Associated Press reports. “Millersville University [in Pennsylvania] instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English [instead of Education] last year after learning of her Web-published picture, which bore the caption ‘Drunken Pirate’." The AP says the dean of the Education School “accused Snyder of … [Read more...] about Lawsuit over student’s MySpace photo
Schools banning music players
Where cheating’s concerned, first it was baseball caps (answers under brim), then it was cellphones (texting answers), “now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device,” the Associated Press reports. Kids can podcast (audio record) answers, store them on an iPod, Zune or Zen, and hide them “under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking … [Read more...] about Schools banning music players