Ypulse Essentials: Virtual Prom, L.A. Youth, 'Adult Swim Presents: Kia Soul/Hense'
Posted by meredith on 04-29-2009
Virtual prom (Men's Wearhouse launches a mini-site with a social media component for its "Prom Representative" program. And Mint.com turns personal finance into a game for its Gen Y users) (Brandweek) (TechCrunch)
- Text and you shall receive (a Catholic high school wins a concert from Taylor Swift in a nationwide Verizon Wireless contest by sending the company more than 19,000 text messages. Also, college recruiters start using Twitter and Facebook) (Washington Post) (USA Today)
- InTheFABLane.com (the tween site formerly known as Shop Like Anna gets a makeover and a broader focus including friends, tween celebrities and health and body. Also, virtual camp world CampFu has over 100K registrations) (Virtual World News)
- Colleges go trayless (in their dining halls in an effort to conserve money and cut down on food waste) (New York Times, reg. required)
- 'LA Youth' on shaky ground (the non-profit teen paper seeks donations to stay afloat after LA Times cuts funding. Plus, more on the rough times ahead for teens seeking summer jobs) (Mercury News) (Los Angeles Times, reg. required)
- Disney picks up 'Boss' (a workplace comedy about a 21 year-old who takes the job as his father's boss. Pus, excitement builds over an all-county production of "High School Musical 2″) (Variety) (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- 'Adult Swim Presents: Kia Soul/Hense' (a program features graffiti artists giving the car an "Adult Swim themed paint job with characters and themes from the Cartoon Network block of programming aimed at older viewers. Plus, students from the Royal College of Art in London design cars for the year 2049) (MediaPost, reg. required) (PSFK)
- MTV dives into new media (with new series like "$5 Cover" which capture the Memphis music screen on air and online with digital episodes. And the yet-to-be-titled "Alexa Chun Show" which will integrate Twitter and Facebook for instantaneous feedback with the host. Also, "The Hills" lives on without Lauren Conrad and MTV's anti-Hills show you've never seen about Staten Island) (Los Angeles Times, reg. required) (TechCrunch) (Variety) (Los Angeles Times, reg. required)
- High school graduation rates decline (in several of the nation's largest cities. Plus, according to a new federal report, high school students haven't made significant gains in reading and math tests in four decades) (SLJ) (WSJ)
- Child prodigies are kids too (Jezebel asks whether precocious youngsters are being fast forwarded to adulthood before its time)
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