Ypulse Essentials: Predator Panic, 'Earn Your Stripes,' Ford Sync

Teens love luxury goods (Marketplace on how the "luxury consumer" is getting much younger)

- Facebook settles with NY (vows to respond to complaints in a more timely manner - that's a good thing [the email to report abuse is abuse@facebook.com]. But this is just the beginning of increased political pressure to regulate social networking sites, all in response to "predator panic," which is not a good thing) (L.A. Times, reg. required) (Live Science)

- MySpace finds its voice (with Skype! I wonder if this stuff will stop the teen exodus. Just spoke at another private school where "MySpace is so over.") (Wired)

- Earn Your Stripes (a new Kellogg's/ESPN sports site allegedly written by kids…so eat Frosted Flakes and then work it off! Plus Barbie Happy Meals get flack and kids want to rock out with electronics this x-mas.) (Media Post, reg. required) (USA Today)

- Smart Television Alliance (Sounds like a much approach to encouraging family friendly TV) (AdAge.com, reg. required)

- Crescent Heights (the Tide twentysomething web series just looks way cheesy)

- Divorce sucks… (especially for Asian and white teens) (Iconoculture)

- Ford attempts to 'Sync'… (with young people by going high tech) (Detroit News)

- 'Superbad' 'Freaks & Geeks' guy Judd Apatow… (joins Funnyordie.com…pretty funny video) (Fishbowl L.A.)

- Warhol would have loved lifecasting (another story on Justin.tv) (New York Times, reg. required)

P.S. For Ypulse Los Angelinos, check out the under 18 showcase (.pdf) at the AFI Film Fest.

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