Pay Up, Kid, or Your Igloo Melts - haha

Good article in NYTimes by MIREYA NAVARRO - perhaps the best online newspaper in the world - on kid-focused social networking sites. Funny title too! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28virtual.html?ref=fashion

The Goods on FlowPlay - at Last!

TechCrunch has a vid on Flowplay (the Seattle start-up by Ex-Real Networks Exec Derrick Morton). Nice graphics and polished teen-avatar concepts - still waiting on more info to see if there is anything unique and innovative and how it will differentiate. see.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8144405687153798918&q=flowplay&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Apaja's Innovative Global Payment Network

Playray (www.playray.com) is a cool avatar based social gaming site produced by Apaja (www.apaja.fi) of Finland. They have an extensive payment network consisting on online, card and telco payment methods with an impressively user-friendly payment page display. They just announced a large strategic co-operation with Lycos: http://www.lycos.co.uk/games/playray.html