What I bookmarked today

– Your kids will rock you!!!

Totlol is a community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.

Launched for beta testing in May 2008, Totlol is an independent website made in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

hippo and dog videos on the net

Imaginative Play

* Playhouses
* Puppets
* Art Supplies

Construction Toys

* LEGOs
* Rokenbok
* Capsela
* K’NEX

Brainteasers

* Rubik’s Cube
* Jigsaw Puzzles
* Wooden Labyrinth

With MMOs, community is everything – so how can you ensure your community remains happy and healthy with content changes, server down time or even just a developer misspeaking able to lead to a full meltdown?

They can happen no matter what is done to prevent them, and in this panel at ION the best methods to employ to avert disaster were explored.

Online youth entertainment and media network GoFish Corporation has announced its first quarter results, reporting an increase in revenue to $657,150, as compared to $24,074 for the same period in the previous year. GoFish attributed the year-over-year increase to higher sales from advertising sold across its network of owned and affiliated publisher websites.

some deserves this.

Mommy blog segment from Today Show, where Kathy Lee Gifford was a bit of a moron.

mario wedding cake, video game cover table markers, I love it!

J!NX is a clothing company for gamers and geeks. You are required to visit if you are into gadgets, gaming, computers, robots (really big ones), ninjas, eskimos, stuff with blinking lights, and/or pretty much anything technical. We ingest a healthy dose of all these things on a daily basis.

i love flickr. here is a cookies group

GuildCafe is free service where you can form guilds and clans, publish your gaming accomplishments and connect with other players who like the things you do.

demo of new 3d flash capabilities

This is the Social Media Research done by Universal Mccann including 17,000 people in 29 countries

FTC starts to think about imposing new rules regarding how we track our users. Especially the kiddos

top 10 features to think about when designing a family targeted game

QlikView provides fast, powerful and visual in-memory business analysis – without the limitations, cost or complexity of traditional BI tools. QlikView can be deployed in days and users trained in minutes.

concept and design work for the fusion fall gaming world

In the US and elsewhere, public discussion of virtual worlds has been dominated by potential threats to children from sexual predators and from violent images in online games. The media and toy companies have responded with an emphasis on site safety, with limits on what messages a user’s avatar can send.

But Sara Grimes, a communications professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada, says there has been very little attention paid to the commercialisation and marketing elements of digital play, including the collection of data that can be used for advertising linked to online behaviour. “It is easy to get distracted from these issues . . . The sites also play on that by promoting themselves as safe havens and tapping into parental concerns,” she says.

Edward Tufte home page for books, posters, sculpture, fine art and one-day course: Presenting Data and Information – WHILE I LOVE THIS MAN AND HIS WORK, HIS WEBSITE DESIGN DOESN’T REALLY DRIVE HOME MANY OF HIS CONCEPTS, EH?

State of Play is coming to Chicago! This year’s State of Play, the only conference about the serious study of virtual worlds, will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the River East Art Center in Chicago.

Organized by New York Law School in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation, the conference invites experts across disciplines to discuss philanthropy in virtual worlds.

Virtual worlds are crucial building blocks of global civil society. As such, they harbor great potential for relationship building and cooperation across national borders. We hope you will join us for this important interdisciplinary conversation.

Design Benign is an on-going research project about the role cuteness plays in the appearance, use, and perception of the products we use every day- from iPods to cars to food.

This is a cute-ness chart. I am in love with it.