Ypulse Essentials: Webkinz Jr., Gen Y In Washington, Guitar Hero Gets Girly
Posted by meredith on 01-07-2009
Editor’s Note: Anastasia will be at CES tomorrow and Friday, then on vacation returning Monday, January 19th. She will not be responding to email next week. Please send all newstips and press releases to Meredith at Ypulse.com.
Webkinz Jr. (the original virtual pets co plans on launching a new line for 3 to 6 year olds this spring) (Gifts and Decorative Accessories)
- Est. Today (a DIY design website that lets tween girls with an eye for fashion design, create and buyl their own clothes. Sound familiar? Back in September Anastasia pointed out a similar site) (trendcentral)
- Teen pregnancy rates rise (in the U.S. Let the blame game begin) (MccClatchy Washington Bureau)
- Grand Theft Auto is no Drivers Ed (a 6-year-old attempts to take the family car to school after missing the bus… and crashes. Definitely one for the WTF files) (AP)
- ‘Olivia’ on Nickelodeon (the beloved children’s book makes the leap to television) (MediaPost, reg. required)
- Scitable (a free online resource designed for bio majors and educators. This could be a welcome alternative to Wikipedia. Also a West Point for aspiring bureaucrats exchanges a four year education for five years of government service) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Bellaboo (Aussie teen skin care line designed by and for teen girls… with the help of a very involved parent/former beauty editor)
- Meet the millennial congressman (27 year-old Aaron Schock is the first member of congress to be born in the 1980s and makes the rest of us feel like we have some catching up to do) (CBS News)
- Guitar Hero gets girly (with a pink heart-shaped guitar. And the ‘pink plague’ rages on. Plus in other stereotypically gendered toy news a new virtual world for boys comes out with a feature for building cars. And finally two studies come out on gender differences and physical activity) (Shiny Shiny TV) (Telegraph UK) (Virtual World News) (Jezebel)
- Nokia’s new mobile web portal (reaches out to youth by reporting the latest news from Rolling Stone and US Weekly. Plus MobileYouth’s Graham Brown takes a cue from Seth Godin with his presentation on Mobile Youth Tribes) (mocoNews.net) (Mobile Youth)
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