Ypulse Essentials: Gowalla Goes To Disneyland, PTC Takes On Hulu, Young Aussies

Disney goes with Gowalla (not Foursquare or Facebook Places—as the official location-based social network of Disney Parks and Resorts. The startup has launched custom Gowalla Disney Passport pages along with over 100 virtual pins that visitors can collect at different attractions. It’s a big win for the niche geolocation service considering its “user base would skyrocket even if it converted a miniscule proportion of Disney’s users into new users”) (TechCrunch) (New York Times, reg. required)

- ‘Harry Potter’ to open in 3,700 midnight locations (getting the ball rolling on records to be broken this opening weekend. As of this morning, Fandango reports more than 2,200 showtimes have already sold out in advance for tomorrow night. Nevermind the leak of the film’s first 36 minutes, which Warner Bros. is unsurprisingly planning to prosecute to the ‘full extent of the law’ ) (Deadline) (WSJ)

- MTV picks up ‘The Vice Guide to Everything’ (described to Pop Candy blogger Whitney Mathesan as “Jackass meets 60 Minutes”)

- Parents Television Council comes down on Hulu (and other video sites for not doing enough to keep kids from seeing indecent material online. Plus, for those that were already weary of the tween-targeted prepaid debit card endorsed by the Kardashians, this laundry list of hidden fees should comes as no surprise) (NPR) (Consumerist)

- Facebook and MySpace (set to make a joint announcement delivered via invite-only webcast today. The safe bet says it’s to confirm that MySpace will start using Facebook Connect, thereby underlining the talking point that the “social entertainment hub” is out of the social networking game) (Mashable)

- Examville (a new online education marketplace where teachers and tutors can set up personalized storefront pages to offer virtual classes, online tutoring and instruction materials for a fee. Meanwhile, an entrepreneurial psych major launches confidential peer-support site Spill where college students can anonymously report personal problems to receive responses from trained volunteers) (Cynopsis Kids) (ReadWriteWeb)

-Young Aussies (are more stressed than last year. A recent survey of 50,000 finds a spike in stress levels reported by 11 to 24-year-olds) (ABC News)