Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:18:00 GMT
Hat tip to Rachel Cook at
Talking Tech on Family 2.0, there seems to be an incredible amount of new Web 2.0 site popping up that are family and parenting oriented.
Some of the new sites recently mentioned on Rachel’s site are
Imbee, a new unique blogging and social networking site developed specifically for kids ages 8 to 14.
OurStory, Capture your life’s story and the story of your family members with photos and video.
Zamily, Another social site for families to set up family tree’s, share calendars, develop connections in your network and friends.
Families, The Internet’s community of friends and family…
Famdoodle, your entire family get together in one place.
GotKidsNetwork, where parents share.
FamilyRoutes, an online community for families.
MothersClick, a better way for mother’s to connect.
How this is all going to shake down is anyone’s guess, but there sure are a lot of cool sites and ideas that being launched.
Rachel’s
Talking Tech on Family 2.0 is a great resource for the latest information on family and parenting oriented sites. Visit it often.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:34:00 GMT
In today’s issue of the Wall Street Journal there is an article by Sue Shellenber called “Remote Control: Parents use Software to Track Kid’s Online Activity from Work” (subscription req’d).
The article states that more and more working parents have very major concerns about their children’s internet usage while parents are at work. Many have turned to using software programs that allow them to monitor their kid’s internet usage from the office.
The following software programs are mentioned in the article:
SafeEyes ($49.95) reports instant messaging chats. Web use and file-sharing, with alerts via phone or e-mail.
eBlaster ($99.95) e-mailos copies of chats; reports Web use with e-mail alerts.
ContentProtect ($39.99) reports text of IMs and tracks Web activity; e-mails alerts.
IM Einstein ($40.00.)records IMs and chats, with alerts via e-mail, phone or pager.
Cybersieve ($39.95)online logs of Web use with notice of forbidden activity.
What makes these programs different from older monitoring programs that have been around for years, is that they allow monitoring from a remote computer. And there is no software to be installed on the monitoring (parent’s office) computer.
One area of debate is whether parents should tell their children that they are monitoring their internet activity. On the one hand, if you keep it secret, you may find out some things that you wouldn’t otherwise. On the other hand, some argue that doing secret surveillance could result in a breakdown in trust.
I’m more inclined to believe in the latter, that internet usage should be treated in the same manner in which you monitor TV and movie habits.
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Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:46:00 GMT
It seems that until recently there has been a dearth of parenting advice on the internet, except for the mainstream parenting magazine websites or people trying to hawk books. But I’m starting to see more and more very interesting sites popping up. Although a lot of them are focused on the baby to toddler age group, they are certainly worth checking out. I’ll try to look over these sites and update this post with my impressions.
Minti
Maya’s Mom
To soon to tell on this one since it’s a parenting site in the works, but they are taking e-mail addresses from those interested in being informed about their release.
Families.com
365 First Time Parenting Tips
ParentingIdeas.org
RebelDad
ParentHacks
If you happen to know of any others, please let us know.
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