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Ypulse Essentials: Tootsville, Racy Movie Trailers, Channel One Teaches Financial Literacy

Posted by anastasia on 10-01-2008

Sprouse twinsHow ‘Suite’ it is (for Disney – big streaming numbers for the spin-off series “The Suite Life on Deck”) (Media Week)

- More on Hip Chicas (the Hispanic tween girl site we told you about in an earlier Essentials. Plus check out Tootsville, yes, another tween/kid virtual world. And Startise, another DIY teen girl design your own stuff site) (Media Post, reg. required) (Mashable)

- What the next generation wants (from its online shopping experience) (Media Life Magazine)

- MTV is watching (what videos your watching on MTV.com) (Reuters)

- Predicto (one way to get cell phone polling data from youth)

- Racy movie trailers (on the rise) (Christian Science Monitor)

- More on ‘Friday Nights Lights’ (and the deal with Direct TV that denies fans like me the ability to watch it until this winter) (Forbes)

- Teaching financial literacy (Channel One the FINRA Investor Education Foundation and the Consumer Federation of America team up to promote financial literacy to teens. Plus PNC launches a game to promote its virtual wallet)

- Green my school (cool contest from EcoZone and CBS)

- Teachers making the most of the financial meltdown (it is a teachable moment. And a new study tells colleges to focus less on the S.A.T. – hurray!) (NJ.com) (Christian Science Monitor)

- Is this generation the smartest? (or the dumbest?) (EdWeek)

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