The BBC to Launch Child's Facebook
The BBC is 
launching a “Facebook for kids” – a safe social networking site that aims to push its public service credentials on the web harder than ever.
MyCBBC is targeting the gap left by other front running social network sites like Facebook, Myspace and Bebo who all aim their sites at teens above the age of 13, as they don’t want the responsibility of younger users. Which is something, the BBC argues, only a public broadcaster can cater for.
The site is costing the Beeb hundreds of thousands of pounds and is due to be piloted amongst 1,000 children next month, with the final product being available via the BBC website in April.
Users will be able to design online “dens” to reflect their own personality and interests, and will only be able to send messages via a pallet of pre-determined symbols and phrases, the only way of sending private messages to one another will be if they have already exchanged emails address in real life. This makes it impossible for children to make unscripted contact with strangers, preventing them from inadvertently revealing details which could be picked up by online predators.
launching a “Facebook for kids” – a safe social networking site that aims to push its public service credentials on the web harder than ever.MyCBBC is targeting the gap left by other front running social network sites like Facebook, Myspace and Bebo who all aim their sites at teens above the age of 13, as they don’t want the responsibility of younger users. Which is something, the BBC argues, only a public broadcaster can cater for.
The site is costing the Beeb hundreds of thousands of pounds and is due to be piloted amongst 1,000 children next month, with the final product being available via the BBC website in April.
Users will be able to design online “dens” to reflect their own personality and interests, and will only be able to send messages via a pallet of pre-determined symbols and phrases, the only way of sending private messages to one another will be if they have already exchanged emails address in real life. This makes it impossible for children to make unscripted contact with strangers, preventing them from inadvertently revealing details which could be picked up by online predators.
Ledger's Cocaine Binges
HOLLYWOOD star HEATH LEDGER went on cocaine and ecstasy binges with model NAOMI CA
MPBELL, it emerged last night.
The 28-year-old was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday. He was naked, face down and surrounded by bottles of anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills.
At least three of drugs were prescribed in Europe. And it is believed Ledger picked them up in London where he was filming last weekend.
Police revealed a rolled up $20 bill found in the apartment was to be taken to a lab for testing. However, they said that no visible drug residue was found on it.
Sources close to the actor said Ledger’s hard partying ruined his relationship with MICHELLE WILLIAMS, his girlfriend until September last year, with whom he had daughter Matilda, now two.
Last night the New York medical examiner said toxicology reports to determine what drugs the Aussie actor had in his body when he died would take at least ten days.
Ledger’s close friend Shekhar Kapur probably heard his last words. In a phone call with the movie director he asked him: “Wake me up.”
Kapur explained: “I last spoke to him the night before he died. He said he could not see me that night but really wanted to meet me the next day. He made me promise I would call him in the morning and wake him. I tried but didn’t get any response.”
In Other News
BBC 2 has won Broadcaster channel of the year at this years Broadcast Awards, with shows like Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Top Gear receiving special mention.
A new Government incentive means that fat people may receive funding to lose wait. As part of a national strategy to combat obesity, over weight people could receive an allowance to spend on healthy foods in the supermarket.
Amy Winehouse is now apparently under 24 hour guard as a last ditch attempt by her family to save the troubled singer, who many fear is on the brink of a break down or even a drug overdose.
E17 comeback single has been deemed as nothing more than a joke by critics. The track titled F*** That has no less then 35 uses of the F word, which have left most to regard it as nothingmore than a foul mouth rant.
HOLLYWOOD star HEATH LEDGER went on cocaine and ecstasy binges with model NAOMI CA
MPBELL, it emerged last night.The 28-year-old was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday. He was naked, face down and surrounded by bottles of anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills.
At least three of drugs were prescribed in Europe. And it is believed Ledger picked them up in London where he was filming last weekend.
Police revealed a rolled up $20 bill found in the apartment was to be taken to a lab for testing. However, they said that no visible drug residue was found on it.
Sources close to the actor said Ledger’s hard partying ruined his relationship with MICHELLE WILLIAMS, his girlfriend until September last year, with whom he had daughter Matilda, now two.
Last night the New York medical examiner said toxicology reports to determine what drugs the Aussie actor had in his body when he died would take at least ten days.
Ledger’s close friend Shekhar Kapur probably heard his last words. In a phone call with the movie director he asked him: “Wake me up.”
Kapur explained: “I last spoke to him the night before he died. He said he could not see me that night but really wanted to meet me the next day. He made me promise I would call him in the morning and wake him. I tried but didn’t get any response.”
In Other News
BBC 2 has won Broadcaster channel of the year at this years Broadcast Awards, with shows like Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Top Gear receiving special mention.
A new Government incentive means that fat people may receive funding to lose wait. As part of a national strategy to combat obesity, over weight people could receive an allowance to spend on healthy foods in the supermarket.
Amy Winehouse is now apparently under 24 hour guard as a last ditch attempt by her family to save the troubled singer, who many fear is on the brink of a break down or even a drug overdose.
E17 comeback single has been deemed as nothing more than a joke by critics. The track titled F*** That has no less then 35 uses of the F word, which have left most to regard it as nothingmore than a foul mouth rant.
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