Ypulse Essentials: Meet Obama's Web Team, Green Tips From Miley Cyrus & More

Meet Obama's webteam (the folks behind the candidate's successful 2.0 strategy. Plus Trojan and Rolling Stone want to "get it on" at the conventions) (Washington Post, reg. required)

- Emotes (cute tween site where "'cyber-beings with human-like emotions' that dwell inside the Internet in the land of Emotia." Plus according to Forbes, Disney is attempting to "breath life back into its mobile services for kids." And check out YourSphere, a new "safe" social network for kids and tweens sans parents.) (Emotes via Trendcentral) (YourSphere via Sacramento Biz Journal)

- Miley gives tweens tips (on how to be green via her YouTube channel) (People)

- MTV casting (for yet another modeling reality series, "Model Makers." A tipster pointed this out to me and was very upset about the notion of young contestants getting "thin" as part of the show - I agree. Disturbing. Plus reality TV fans tend to be more "promiscuous frienders" on social networking sites) (Media Life Magazine)

- Young women (love the blog Cute Overload. Plus Perez profiled by Wired) (New York Times, reg. required)

- How much would teens pay… (to be zit-free? $275) (Washington Post, reg. required)

- Is Guitar Hero saving rock 'n' roll? (yet another story on this…or will it be t-shirts with rock lyrics where musicians actually get royalties for using them?) (CNN) (Guardian UK)

- CDC TV (the government tries its own online video channel to promote its PSA-y messages. And The Post Office has webisodes on YouTube!)

- Youth social networking stat ("social networking is still a youthful pursuit–Generation Y [ages 18 to 28] is nearly four times as likely to frequent such sites as are the 29-and-over population) (Forbes)

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