Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
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Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.
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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. By Robert Lemos.
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NEW YORK At the moment, at least eight different Web browsers reside in my computer. There&#39;s no earthly reason to have so many except for the slightly obsessive fun of it.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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By 2011, more than half of the population of kids online will be residents of a simulated  world of animals and avatars.
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Blog: Another big social-networking deal, but we're talking about Web sites where a midget could hop over the barriers to entry with his eyes closed.
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Children have always enjoyed  make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out  their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
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Newbie finds the world of "Second Life" to be fantastical, brimming with possibility, and surprisingly like the real world. Images: Scoping out 'Second Life'
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Even in a virtual world on the Internet, teens long to be cool. And what can be cooler than a Ramones T-shirt on your self-styled Web persona?
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Tim Berners-Lee gives the world its first practical web browser. Can Google be far behind? Compiled by Tony Long.
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When we think of spaces designed with children in mind, gaudy colours, cartoon characters and cheap plastic furniture spring to mind. But that's all changing with a new generation of fresh, modern spaces designed for kids.
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Internet-ready schools do little to protect kids from seemingly safe sites whose only reason to exist is invasive marketing aimed directly at young web surfers. These corporate-sponsored 'advergames' look interactive but the endgame is 'buy.'
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Teen-friendly virtual world books musicians for in-world appearances.
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By Keith Reid, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 22--STOCKTON -- Nine-year-old Evelin Sanson has a new favorite computer program: Apple's iPhoto.
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The Japanese develop a toddler robot. Here's a humorous look at the next generation mechanical child.
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By David Crow  With adults and teenagers increasingly well catered for by social networking sites, children are the new growth market. But with the danger of online fraudsters and, even more disturbingly, paedophiles, the industry has to move carefully.
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NEW YORK - As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online.