The US Justice Department, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and Ad Council just launched a new phase of their media campaign to raise public awareness about exploitation of online teens, Government Technology magazine reports. The article cites a news study by Cox Communications showing that 61% of 13-to-17-year-olds have a personal profile on social networking sites; half of them … [Read more...] about ‘Think Before You Post’ launched
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Online video stars
Winners of the first-annual YouTube awards included videos of "Chicago band OK Go dancing across treadmills," a Sydney man hugging strangers in the street, and "an animated video about a kiwi bird trying to fly," Reuters reports. Categories included "Most Adorable," "Best Commentary," and Most Inspirational," and "Best Comedy," and Reuters lists the winner in each. … [Read more...] about Online video stars
File-sharing students’ settlements
Some 18,000 file-sharers have been sued by the recording industry trade association (RIAA) so far, about 1,000 of them university students, the Associated Press reports. The RIAA offers the students settlements that can cost them as much as $3,000. It "sent letters offering discounted settlements to 400 computer users at 13 universities in late February," with 116 settlements having been reached … [Read more...] about File-sharing students’ settlements
From 2nd Life to Spore
You don't just create a fully developed avatar (online version of yourself) in Spore, you start from cellular-level scratch and develop yourself and your world over time in the forthcoming game that its creator - (SimCity creator and "videogame god") Will Wright – believes will help mankind. Big vision, but if it becomes the blockbuster some analysts believe it will, it just might. According to … [Read more...] about From 2nd Life to Spore
The social Web’s ‘Lifeline’
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has 1,434 MySpace friends - and counting (1,417 at the beginning of this week). That means 1,434 MySpace users have a link on their profiles to the Lifeline. This past year, just one of those profiles referred nearly 14,000 people to the national hotline. "Our site received more than 128,000 unique visitors from MySpace in the past 12 months," the … [Read more...] about The social Web’s ‘Lifeline’