Sub-spheres

One of the things that I really think we should tackle is locating chatrooms and online communities in different European countries. I mean what is the Hyves of Spain or Italy or are they all on Facebook? Apparently Skyrock is for instance very big in France and Orkut is big in Brazil. I know for instance that in Finland every single teenager is on IRC-galleria.

Same goes for video sites. What are the sub-YouTubes for different genres? I am going to post this to our Facebook group for Stranger.

Emoticons

Hey people,

just saw yesterday at IDFA this amazing Dutch documentary called Emoticons about the ways teenagers girls use chatrooms and discussion boards and MSN in the Netherlands and how it works for many lonely and bullied girls as a tool for finding someone to talk to. The maker - Heddy Honigmann - might be someone to consider as a speaker for the industry meetings. I am thinking of getting in touch with her. I think one of our challenges is how we reach out to these girls.

Our youngsters don't care about privacy

Today the results of a research amongst youngsters about online privacy were published. An insight in our target group... 53% of the target group (youngsters from 12 - 18 years old) don't mind that their contactinformation on online communities is public for everyone. 62% realizes that they can be identified by everyone through their contactinformation that is visible for everybody. 33% doesn't want that everyone can see their personal information.

More results can be find on the following link:
http://www.molblog.nl/online/6118

Video privacy expiriment

Eyedentity is a project / expiriment from the VPRO where one girl is locked and must survive with only the internet. The project starts at nov. 30th. You can follow her 24 hours a day and she is also going to make her own YouTube video's.

One view

And of course a oneminutesjr video.