Ypulse Essentials: Blowtorch Entertainment, Teens Still Love Malls, Neopetsfanatic

Note from Anastasia: Thanksgiving week Ypulse will be updated Monday and Tuesday only.

Eleven By Venus Williams (the latest low-priced celeb fashion line to launch at Steve & Barry's)

- Blowtorch Entertainment ("a media company that will target the college/young-adult audience with films and other visual content") (Variety)

- Teens still love malls (i.e. shopping is still a social experience. New stats on teen shopping trends for the holidays. Plus girls want Barbies and boys want tech. Now that Barbie has gone tech, will girls want that, too?) (Reuters)

- Coverage of the USC kids and virtual worlds forum (from News.com)

- Neopetsfanatic (teen blogger earning over $1K a month! "I figured if I earned minimum wage I'd have to work 25 to 30 hours a week to make this.") (The Capital Times)

- Piczo launches Russian version of its service (interesting country choice)

- Ohio teacher's unions tells teachers (get off MySpace out of fear they may interact inappropriately with students - so reactive) (Wired)

- Misguided attack (The folks at Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood are going after the National School Board Association over the Grunwald research. I hear their concerns over marketing, but I think the report was less about pushing specific sites than combating the moral panic around social media in general, which is only widening the gap between students and teachers) (.pdf file)

- Put some 'Teen Spirit' on your desktop (interesting app that is "is an Audio-Video player and organizer with a very user friendly interface. It can retrieve info from internet such as lyrics, album reviews, album covers, artist biographies, artist pictures.")

- Student ambassadors (are like widgets) (Next Great Thing)

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