Glubble – the browser for kids

Quick news flash, Glubble is the safe children friendly internet browser. Read the full details over at Techcrunch, Nick Gonzalez writes the perfect analysis, which I don’t need to add too much here ;0)

More info quickly on Glubble…(source, Glubble)

Glubble puts the web in the hands of families…

• Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
• Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
• Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children.

Doesn’t that already make you feel better. Now I think I will download, as it was one problem stopping me from teaching my little cousin (8yr old) how to do basic html coding. Now I think I will teach him and not have to worry about his dad being concerned.

Check out Glubble…

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Mommy Club – The Canadian resource for moms

Canada has a community for moms to be proud of, MommyClub, which has been around for a while, has relaunched and built the site out into a complete resource for Canadian moms. I am starting to see great niche sites, becoming an enhanced version of the portal destination days. Now, the message is clear, we provide for everything a mom could want for being a mother. The great message is that you as a mother is now more and more, very important. This segment is ripe for providing a targeted audience world-wide or targeting this demographic locally or just by country. As Australian’s have an affinity with Canadian’s, so do mothers with their country. And why not connect with your fellow canadian moms.

Check out Canadian moms, the site provide all the features for Canadian moms to interact, share, and find resources.

It looks like MommyClub has been gettng blog coverage and press.

I think one important item to note for Family 2.0 sites, especially the ones that are direct competitors and have almost a mirror image of each others services, is how long will it be before your members discover other direct competitors? May be that is a good thing. One thing is for sure, there are a lot of mommy network offerings, which may suggest the market is big enough, and they are also positioning themselves, knowingly or otherwise for an acquisition. Here comes Kaboose, Babycenter and Cafemom???

My question is, how will these pure social networking sites just for mothers, continue to innovate? Mobile, sms or something we haven’t seen before? It may not be a need, although being the strategist I am, I can’t help thinking what cool features will these great Canadian moms want?

Other blog post: john bell

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Tangler – Forum 2.0 or the chatosphere?

So what is interesting about Tangler? This is a great new Aussie start up that I am proud to say have angel invested in. What intrigues me about this social network is the potential to change the way we engage in conversation on the web. The “Blogosphere” for example is a bunch of blogs that live on the web, free access to any thought or self-expression we want to expose ourselves to. Plus, you can comment as well.

Well, imagine this, if you could comment live with others on the blog, and that conversation was also collected as a topic on the Tangler.com’s discussion network, you can see how powerful that extra extension out from the blog creates value for the ‘writer of the blog’. Why? Well, they know that their post was of interest to talk live about, as well as having the opportunity to attract more potential readers to congregate together in this discussion inside Tangler for others to swarm to if they so wish and then back onto the blog to check the author out, or subscribed to their feed…(thats powerful viral implications number one)

Then I got excited when the Tangler boys, mentioned that they could extend this conversations and garner rapid reach by ‘embedding’ the conversation on other topically related/non-related blogs across the entire “blogosphere” (also applying to social networks, and I am sure webpages as well). This second viral discussion distribution will create a “chatosphere” effect, and all of a sudden we have a new ecosystem, with bloggers, social networks and webpages, desperate for that live longtail reach. It’s twitter on steriods, manic viral discussion, creating and solidifying the chat-web a platform for live interaction, at the same time regardless of the social software.

More simply, it’s like those days of simultaneous live broadcasts of a show via radio and listeners can call in to talk about the topics. Everyone is digesting, everyone is involved in the “conversation” live as at the same time as the event.

So in short, Tangler aggregates all the “talk” and “conversation exchange” into an organised fashion on the Tangler.com site. You can then add the links to the groups to your external blog, social network or webpage. I like the fact that Tangler has Groups, then inside is Topics, which contain discussions, PLUS you can add rich media into the conversation sessions you are having. It is really effective for “collaboration” “feedback” and “visual” explanation. This then is accessible from blogs to Tangler, or Tangler to the blogs. You need to have Tangler as the chatters home base to extend the viral discussions, which is then easily spread out into the blogs all over the web, coming full circle to the original author blog, discussion. Interesting.

So think about the distribution network – the “blogosphere” spawns out the “chatosphere” so the commenters on the blog can really participate without fear of no-one talking back, as well as find “their kind” back on the Tangler.com site and a potential distribution into the “blogosphere”…Just think about the hive of activity within this so called “chatosphere” (I have affectionately termed) when the Presidential Election is on. Media will be live polling from the “chatosphere” giving instant national feedback on the mood, opinions and the hot debates. The the blogs will experience traffic flows via their live comment sessions on their sites, as they produce/publish more content to talk about.

Aside from the potential uses…

I really do think people that take the time to comment, should have a social network for themselves, as well as the rest of the “chatosphere” being able to jump in from any place from the social web. I think its only a matter of a short time that this real new powerful enhancement for the “Blogosphere and social networks alike” will embrace this Forum 2.0 and Commenting 2.0 with furious and open arms, to liven the social aspect of supplying you time and effort to commenting on someone else works, topic, issue etc.

I think the back channel has the potential to come alive…

Check out the review on Techcrunch.

Here’s some more goodies from the Tangler boys!

We’ve upgraded forums:

· Networked – every forum is connected through a single system.

· Fast – real-time discussion through Ajax.

· Fun – rich-media friendly for pics, videos, flash.

· Swarm – desktop app which alerts you of new messages, topics, invitations.

· Social – cross forum interaction across subjects, groups and people.

· Dynamic threading – single threaded topics with new topic linking.

I encourage you to take a look at Tangler.com and see if there’s something in there that interests you. For anyone that has a special connection to their readers this concept enhances the relationship your social network and blog will have in terms of reputation of the members in the discussion. For those flamed in the past this is your calling to come back :0)

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