Habbo in your pocket (Habbo Hotel, a virtual hit with teens, is reinvesting its cool $7.7 million in going mobile) (GigaOM)

- Hot Soup (social networking for political wonks - coming in October '06)

- Mr. Know-It-All's advice for parents of teens ("Put Johnny’s Mac out in the open so you can see what’s onscreen. While you’re at it, you old Luddite, educate yourself. Get MySpace, Flickr, and IM accounts. If your kid has a Web page, read it. The more genuinely informed pow-wows you have with them, the more they’ll grok your values.") (Wired)

- MySpace is the new number 1 (overtaking Yahoo! Mail...where people basically just check their mail) (Reuters)

- UK tweens can't wait to watch TV on the smallest screen ("87 percent of children ages 10-12 look forward to watching TV on their cell phones and 91 percent hope to do so while on the move") (Media Life Magazine, last item)

- Lindsay helps teens fight zits (for a cool $2 million) (Teen People)

- Welcome to the most awkward Teen Choice Awards ever (Jessica Simpson hosting, Nick and new squeeze nominated) (People)

- Anti-smoking activists go to the movies (to protest lighting up on screen) (Yahoo! News)

- Missing kids replaced by up-and-coming teen pop star (ok, she may not be replacing them, but 16-year-old Britney Christian will be appearing on a school milk carton near you) (press release)

- Everything boys can do, girls can do better (including college, evidently) (The New York Times, reg. required)

- Student drug testing quietly expands (the ACLU is sharpening its pencils) (USA Today)

- STA Travel says "be our friend" on MySpace for a chance to win a trip to Spain (with a "Real World: Key West" cast member....hopefully not the one who was just arrested. Thanks Christi!)

P.S. Remember LaTEENa magazine? (in this Essentials post) Well their big sisters at Latina magazine have sued them over their name delaying the launch to some time in 2007. So much for solidarity....

Posted by anastasia