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A virtual world for kids who rock (podcast)

A virtual world aimed at kids between 6 and 14 enables them to interact with each other, play games, and create and share their own musical creations.

The world looks like a lot of other virtual words for children, where avatars walk around and enter a variety of rooms. But each of the rooms in ToonsTunes has a music theme, and one of those rooms, the Recording Studio, lets kids use a tool called "Mixo-O-Matic" that lets them lay down tracks from drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and other instruments.

Kids can control the beat and the genre, (country, … Read more

TechCrunch50 kicks off: Let the games begin

SAN FRANCISCO--The fall season has officially begun. Starting Monday morning, the annual TechCrunch50 conference took over the San Francisco Design Center for two days of start-up pitches and presentations; the conference's angle, as co-hosts Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis reiterated, is that all 50 companies on the roster are completely new and launching for the first time.

Start-ups presenting at the conference, which were chosen through a behind-the-scenes elimination process, were grouped into categories. The first of the day was "Youth & Games," with an array of kid-focused and entertainment start-ups.

The day had already begun with … Read more