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Report: 90% of Tweens are Playing Online Games & Kids’ Mobile and Social Media Use is on the Rise

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 31, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Kids and Games: What Boys and Girls are Playing Today is a new report launched by M2 Research and youth marketing research firm KidSay. Survey data was collected from over 5,000 ... (more)

Indie Music: The Devoted Few Live

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 27, 2010 at 10:35 pm
The Devoted Few’s debut album, “Baby, You’re a Vampire” is incredible! It was released in 2009 and was mixed by the same guy who produced the latest Kings of ... (more)

CollegeOnly: A Parent Free, Exclusive Social Network for Students

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 27, 2010 at 7:02 am
Remember when Facebook was only for college kids? CollegeOnly is a return to those simple, pastoral days — with a whole lot more tech. If you have a university e-mail address ... (more)

Nielsen: African-Americans, Women and Southerners Talk and Text The Most in the U.S.

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 26, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Think you can guess which Americans talk or text the most on their mobile phones? American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or ... (more)

Infographic: Social Media Equivalents in China

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 25, 2010 at 11:33 pm
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Call for Nominations: Ypulse Seeking 10 New Youth Advisory Board Members

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 24, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Ypulse.com is excited to once again be putting out the call for new members to join the Ypulse Youth Advisory Board. After the success of bringing together our original board ... (more)

Michael Buckley’s ‘Back to School’ Tips [VIDEO]

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 22, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Michael Buckley, the guru behind the wildly popular 'Buck Hollywood' and 'Dear Buck' shows on YouTube, has put together a video full of tips to help teens and tweens ... (more)

Trend Watch: Universal Pictures Adds ‘i-Trailer’ For Teen Movie Push

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 20, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Universal Pictures launched an i-Trailer on August 4 to promote Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, debuting the marketing tool on the Yahoo! Movie site. The movie studio partnered with ... (more)

Infographic: Foursquare vs Facebook Places vs Gowalla vs Other Location Based Social Networking Sites

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 19, 2010 at 2:21 pm
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Summer Must-Read for Kids? Any Book

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 19, 2010 at 5:45 am
Has your child cracked a book this summer? Although adults often jump at the chance to catch up on their reading during vacations, many children and teenagers, particularly those ... (more)

It’s Official: Introducing Facebook Places

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 19, 2010 at 12:05 am
Earlier tonight Facebook ended several weeks of speculation and made it official that they're jumping into the check-in space with a new geolocation feature called Places. Facebook ... (more)

Cartoon Network Launches ‘Stop Bullying: Speak Up’ Campaign

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 18, 2010 at 12:29 am
Last week the Cartoon Network announced further details of its multi-platform Bullying Prevention Campaign at the National Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, ... (more)

Indie Culture: Support East African Storytellers

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 17, 2010 at 1:51 am
For three weeks this summer, twenty African artists met on the Island of Manda, Kenya to take part in Sundance Institute's first-ever East African Theatre Lab. To ... (more)

Twitter Cheat Sheet

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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Indie Poetry: How To Be Alone

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 13, 2010 at 1:55 pm
A video by indie filmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, ... (more)

How Facebook Influences You [VIDEO]

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 13, 2010 at 12:29 am
  Why is Facebook News Feed brilliant? It puts hot triggers in the path of motivated people. Also, understand why some news feed content get "liked", while ... (more)

Infographic: What Americans Do Online

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 12, 2010 at 4:11 am
via blog.nielsen.com Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according ... (more)

Trend Watch: Ultrinsic Allows College Students to Gamble on Their Grades

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 11, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Later this month, some college students will meet a new load of professors, study a pile of syllabuses and optimistically think, "I bet I can get a 4.0 GPA this semester." Well, ... (more)

Myth Busters: Facebook, Teens & Cyberbullying

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 9, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Facebook handles 2m abuse reports through its site every week, and 80% of those are false. But of those cases that are genuine, by far the biggest issues are cyberbullying, ... (more)

Trend Watch: Facebook Manners and You! [Vintage Film]

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 6, 2010 at 7:33 pm
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Togetherville: Building a Social Web Experience for Kids

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 2, 2010 at 9:48 pm
What is it? Togetherville is a social networking experience intended for your younger children (5-10 year olds). The new service is designed to provide a training ground where ... (more)

The Real Life Social Network: Google, Online Relationships & Influence

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
August 1, 2010 at 2:50 pm
The future of the Web is social. What does that mean? Google is trying to figure it out.The company's previous attempts to corner the social Web, like Google Wave and Buzz, ... (more)

Infographic: The Internet in 2020

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
July 31, 2010 at 1:46 pm
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Trend Watch: Connectonomics

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
July 30, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Connectonomics, a newly-released research study from Yahoo! and marketing research firm AddedValue, takes a look at women’s needs and how they relate to the digital and social ... (more)

In Google We Trust: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web Content [Research]

From Derek E. Baird :: Barking Robot
July 29, 2010 at 12:28 pm
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting piece about a research study, Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web Content, out of Northwestern University which found that the much ... (more)