Ypulse Teen Tech Roundup
Posted by anastasia on 03-26-2007It appears Facebook learned its lesson after the newsfeed fiasco and is now giving its users a sneak peek and an opportunity to comment before it launches any new features.
Thanks to the Washington Post, reg. required, we know more about MySpace superstar Tila Tequila than we ever needed to. Also in MySpace news, according to Mashable, St. Hugo of the Hills, a Catholic School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, has banned students from having MySpace accounts at school…and at home! This is pretty extreme me thinks.
Meanwhile the real fear around technology should be about multi-tasking while driving a car…or a bike (New York Times, reg. required).
Over at YouTube, the winners reign supreme while iFilm is about to get more blatantly male after being merged with Spike TV. And StupidVideos.com joins the video upload site that are offering cash incentives.
The Telegraph UK on "totally wired" teens - quoting yours truly, and the Guardian reports on Blyk, the ad supported "free" mobile service launching in Britain this summer.
And big news from Alloy — it seems that they are now in the ad rep business, at least for three hot social media sites. According to the Media Post (reg. required), the youth marketing agency will sell ads for avatar design firm Meez, viral widget company RockYou, and urban social network Block Savvy.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I found this interesting in the Tila Tequila article:
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She says she's "allergic" to booze; she just found the name ironic.
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