Imbee – social site for 8 to 14 year olds
Imbee has not launched yet, however they have a splash page up which you can sign in to get notified of the impending launch. However, imbee have been getting out there and getting press on the idea, and why not… the founder is serial entrepreneur, Jeanette Symons who has funded imbee with a cool US$6m of her own money.
It was conceived out of her need for a private place on online for her 8 year old son to have a blog and share it with his friends. Ultimately getting in on Myspace type niche offerings, imbee caters for the market where parents are still very much in control of the content pre-teens access on the web.
In my situation, my son is nearly two and his is already on the computer, learning his ABC's at Fisher Price's online toddler games area…so thank goodness someone is thinking about this…I have 6 years before I need to worry about him trying to work out how to hack the system 
But seriously, I am wondering how imbee enables true parent moderation, as well as prevention from nasty, real boogie monsters… I can only say at the moment…stay tuned.
Update: Thanks Tim from Industrious Kid for his note below…
Imbee.com was specifically designed for kids in mind with features that include rigours user authentication / verification; user generated content privacy; parental dash board offering the ability to monitor activity or to set age appropriate parameters and much more.
Our members only network with their real friends, and all friend connections must be pre-approved by a parent before the connection is completed.
About imbee from the site…
imbee.com is a new unique blogging and social networking site developed specifically for kids ages 8 to 14.
imbee.com is the new blogging and social networking site for kids!
View press on imbee…
Teaching Kids to drive the Net
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Update 2 on Imbee!
on May 30, 2006 on 4:21 pm
Hi there. Thanks for talking about imbee.com! For those that are interested, we will be launching the first secure social network and blogging destination for kids in less than 2 weeks.
Imbee.com was specifically designed for kids in mind with features that include rigours user authentication / verification; user generated content privacy; parental dash board offering the ability to monitor activity or to set age appropriate parameters and much more.
Our members only network with their real friends, and all friend connections must be pre-approved by a parent before the connection is completed.
We hope that parents and kids will find imbee.com to be a fun, exciting and most importantly safe place for kids to go and network with their friends on line.
on June 2, 2006 on 1:08 pm
Thanks Tim. Do I have to be 8 to give it a trial run?
Cheers,
Rachel
on June 15, 2006 on 8:15 pm
that’s the beauty of the internet… you dont have to be 8, allyou have to do is press the number ‘8′ on your keyboard and hit ‘Enter’ and you’re all set (just kidding)