What if website operators could spot troublemakers in cyberspace based on a single score? What if that score stuck as you surfed the web? ReputationShare is a product that allows site operators to share information about your reputation as an upstanding digital citizen.

LinkedIn asked me to write a guest column about how to make the new graduate’s job hunt a bit less horrifying. Here’s what I came up with, but I’ve love your thoughts as well.
http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/04/22/add-more-oomph-to-your-job-search/

Norton’s OnlineFamily launched this week. It’s being distributed as a free download from the website.
It’s the first of what I expect will be a generation of Internet safety products designed to spur a dialog rather than create a wall between kids and their parents.

Watch kids play long enough and you learn that there’s nothing new under the sun. Only the packaging changes. The same play types—from pirates to mystery sleuths, from hula hoops to board game favorites—reappear.
This notion of favorite play patterns wasn’t lost on Ted Barnett, the CEO, co-founder, and dad behind the new virtual world, SuperSecret. [...]

Now that they’ve seen game developers turn into rock stars (and get paid like them too) parents are much more likely to take gaming as a serious career path.
Game development is a part of many colleges computer science curriculum and in a number of high schools like this one in NYC, building a game is [...]

It’s spring. The crocuses peek out their heads, newborn babies abound, and teenage hormones course through the veins of every 12- to 19-year-old. Maybe that’s why, every spring, parents get another wave of hysteria about the next peril they’ll need to face on the Internet. This season the hubbub revolves around “sexting.”

There was a time when the thought of not being connected gave me hives. Now I’m willing to pay a premium to find a place where I can be disconnected for awhile.
In the Air
My first safe haven to go was the airplane. A flight was a place to read a book or watch a movie [...]

In the old days (just last week), before Nintendo’s new portable game console, the DSi, was available, portable game consoles were for kids with good eyesight, fast reflexes, and too much time on their hands. The DSi, the next generation of Nintendo’s DS, is going to shake things up by changing the nature of the [...]

Mario and Sonic are Olympians with a pretty impressive track record. Separately, Mario plays for the Nintendo team and Sonic plays for Sega. But when they join forces, whoa, stand back. They teamed up in Beijing to star in Mario and Sonic at the Summer Olympics and managed to sell over 10 million games as [...]

If organic food is better for the body, then what’s organic media? Chopped liver?
That’s the question that Amy Tucker, CEO of Matter Group and founder of a new kid’s multimedia property called Xeko, posed at a recent meeting of Women in Children’s Media where the subject was “green” media.
Xeko challenges kids to “Be a Force [...]