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Well Hello Kitty fans just got another present. Hello Kitty Online has officially launched in North America and Europe. To celebrate, Sanrio Digital is offering a collectible Premium Edition available especially for North America. By joining Hello Kitty Online, fans can share their love of Hello Kitty, either through the free downloadable client or by using the Premium Edition version.
Disney’s Create portal has launched an very cool new creative endeavor – a Group Wall that is essentially an online mosaic where thousands of fans can create and share original works of art. Users visiting the site can even watch as the Group Wall grows, as people add more and more artwork to it and the mosaic evolves into a portrait of Mickey Mouse.
But besides this cool new online mosaic project, Disney’s Create portal has a lot of other cool creativity tools worth checking out …
There is always a lot of controversy circulating around about Facebook, its culture, and and its privacy settings. But there are certain instances where you have to marvel at the good-kinds of stuff that can come out of Facebook. In one such a case, a women whose 3 and 2 year old kids had been kidnapped by her father 15 years prior. The mother made a simple Facebook search which led her to the profile of her daughter. The father, named Faustino Utrera, has since …
If you aren’t already a fan of Pandora, then you’re truly missing out. Pandora is one of the best free streaming music services online. Now they’ve expanded their large selection of music to a include a Children’s Genre.
“We’ve hunted down some truly excellent children’s music for our collection, and our Music Analysts have spent months listening to every one of these songs. They’ve categorized the songs along hundreds of musicological traits so playlists are kid-friendly, musically interesting, and combine a great mix of familiar songs …
Ekomini Interactive Moneybox is a new high tech piggy bank that connects to your computer to scan and count money as it’s deposited. This cool toy helps kids learn about the fundamentals of spending, saving, sharing, and investing in a fun and interactive way. Using Ekomink, Kids can play at Ekominiville, an educational web-based savings platform where kids can play games, track their savings and learn how to earn, set goals, spend, share and invest.
The new Spy Net Secret Mission Video Watch from Jakks Pacific manages to pack in a hidden video camera and audio system with onboard memory so that kids can record and store over 20 minutes of video, over 4 hours audio evidence or even 2000+ still photos…all displayable on a built-in, full color video screen. Young secret agents can upload their files via the included USB connection to SpyNetHQ.com to analyze their evidence with the lie detector software, video and audio analysis, secret code reader, …
Fantage (Fantastic Age) is a fast growing community site for children ages 7-13. Kids can go on secret-agent style missions, earn medals and gifts by playing mini-games, purchase furniture, clothing, stickers, costumes, and more! But Fantage not only incorporates games and adventures that entertains kids, these games also instill important lessons in them like sharing and giving. The site also helps promote positive social interaction in a safe environment with a social networking experience that mom and dad don’t have to worry about.
Cahootie has reinvented the iconic handmade “cootie catcher” or “fortune-teller”. Unlike the do-it-yourself ones we’re all used to making at home or in school, Cahooties are made of pre-folded, rip-resistant laminated paper with colorful graphics, and they are available in nine themes including, “Wishes & Dreams,” “Truth or Dare,” “Best Friends Forever,” and “Girl Wonders.” To compliment Cahooties, there is ClubCahootie, a social networking site where tweens can interact with one another online. The site offers blogging, chat, in-world mail, avatars, photo and video uploading …
Norad is at it again and has just launched the Norad 2009 Santa tracker. Parents and kids can track down where Santa is heading to next. NORAD is once again using Google Earth to track Santa, and this year you can track him on your iPhone or Smartphone too. You can see videos of where Santa has been, find out where he was, and where he is off to next. So if you got anyone in your family who thinks Santa isn’t real – well …
So the televisions in your home are occupied with some sports game or cooking show and your 4 year old is carrying on because he/she has nothing to watch. Well Jaroo may have just saved you from pulling your hair out. Jaroo is in beta but offers a huge selection of free cartoons from yester-year. Like Inspector Gadget, Adventures of Paddington Bear, Dino Squad, and Madeline to name a few. These are classics that are no longer played on cable. Go through as many episodes …

