Ypulse Essentials: Hasbro's New Kids' Channel, Teen Fashion Goes Plus Sized, Poem In Your Pocket Day
Posted by meredith on 04-30-2009
Hasbro and Discovery team up for new kids network (featuring shows with Hasbro characters like GI Joe and My Little Pony. Plus, Disney comes to Hulu) (Reuters) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Sony's Free Realms (steps into the ring as a new MMOG for kids) (GigaOm) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Teen Girl Expo (a workshop in Illinois helps teen girls build their self-esteem and tackles the issues that tears it away. Plus, an unsettling piece on tween girls in the UK becoming "child women") (Chicago Tribune) (Daily Mail)
- Teen stores strive to fit all (Forever 21 and Target add plus-sizes to their clothing lines for teens) (CNN)
- Playing with food TV online (Food Network launches Food2 to connect with the younger culinary crowd. Plus, a 14 year old vegetarian campaigns the Obama girls to push for healthier school lunches) (New York Magazine) (Jezebel)
- Ciara goes virtual for teen and tween fans (with a concert inside Planet Cazmo's virtual concert arena) (Singersroom)
- iPhone Apps 101 (a look inside the Computer Science classroom where students learn how to design and develop their own apps. The course is part of Apple’s iPhone University Program) (Wired)
- More on millennials' 'green' blues (Ad Age, reg. required, covers the Generate Insight report we spotlighted in an earlier post)
- Poem In Your Pocket Day (and on Guys Lit Wire, Little Willow shares some favorite poems from male poets)
- Girl fights go viral (on YouTube and other sites) (CBS)
Correction for Newsletter Readers: The screening of "DARE" at this year's Mashup event will be at Hotel Nikko, not the Sony Metreon as reported in yesterday's interview with David Brind and Adam Salky.
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
May 1st, 2009 at 6:12 am
Thank you for linking to my poetry piece!