News for June 2006

Week of June 04, 2006 - 'Video snacking'
What you might call "teeny TV" got a lot of play in kid-tech news this past week - its TV and video the way our kids will be consuming it, on cellphones in Web sites, probably well before we feel any interest.
Week of June 11, 2006 - Monitoring MySpace
Social networking was back in the news big time this week, featured in an Internet summit in California, a major series on CBS News and its Web site, on the front page of the Sunday New York Times, and in a just-released study of teen communication tools.
Week of June 18, 2006 - Safety in Teen Social Networking
Safety in teen social networking was the focus of kid-tech news this week - partly because of a milestone conference in Washington on 6/22. Hosted by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the meeting brings together social-networking companies, law enforcement, children's advocates, and educators for a "dialogue" on this subject.
Week of June 25, 2006 - A Dialogue on Social-Networking Sites
Children’s online safety was very much on politicians’ minds this past week, both on Capitol Hill and at an all-day conference held in Washington on June 22 by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC): A Dialogue on Social-Networking Sites. Speakers included prominent pediatricians, researchers, children’s advocates, states attorneys general, and executives from the top social-networking sites.

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