Ypulse Essentials: Zune’s Slightly Rising Popularity, Apple’s ‘Field Trips,’ 20 Best Dorm-Room Startups
Posted by anastasia on 10-09-2008
Will the HSM3 soundtrack (get Disney back in the music game – interesting post and questions from Idolator)
- Zune’s popularity rising with teens (a little bit. iPod still dominates) (Seattle PI)
- Apple offering school field trips to its stores (hmmmm, the line between “educational” and “marketing” feels really blurry here, no?) (via MacNN)
- Teaching math (with video games in NY schools – thanks Andrea!) (New York Times, reg. required)
- College Wikis (gets funding. Plus 20 best dorm-room startups. And two teens are behind this online shopping start-up as well.) (Paid Content) (Startup Nation) (Buffalo News)
- Home builders redesign (for Gen Y) (AJC)
- Rx for depressed teens (more therapy. Evidently kids getting lots of drugs and no therapy) (USA Today)
- Why kids are bullied (interesting article on what makes certain children targets) (Newsweek)
- Boarding schools gaining popularity (in California. I’m going to be speaking at a boarding school in Connecticut tonight!) (L.A. Times, reg. required)
- The evangelical [youth] elite (interesting-looking new photo book – thanks Andrea! I’m speaking a a conference for youth ministers in Sacramento on Monday…) (Daily Dish)
- UK Elle (to launch a magazine in Stardoll…interesting) (Guardian)
- Coming to ABC Family (two new teen series: “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Ruby and The Rockits.” Plus “Brandon” to direct an episode of the new “90210″) (Multichannel News) (UPI)
- Ubisoft advertising its snowboarding game (on South Park. And Doritos launches another ugc contest for this year’s Super Bowl)
P.S. Knowledge @ Wharton is launching a site for high school students in February of ’09 – how cool.
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