Miss America kids site
p2pnet news | Product News:- Seven years ago, Lauren Nelson, then 13, was in an chat room during a sleepover with friends.
Within a week, “an online predator was e-mailing one of them lurid photos,” she says.
These days she’s Miss America and she’s the figurehead for an application featured on www.missamericakids.com meant to help protect and educate children online.
“Kids only surf safe pre-screen pre-approved web sites!” – says the site, going on:
- Fun beautiful interface that girls love and some for boys!
- Educational games that teach Internet Safety!
- Animated Miss America offers encouraging words to your child!
- Easy to use web based parental controls!
- Install on multiple computers and in multiple locations!
- Safer than a normal browser!
- Customize your child’s experience online!
Behind the site is Tuki from the Children’s Educational Network.
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October 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
ยป Safer than a normal browser!
A browser based on MSIE *cannot* be safer than a *normal* browser (Firefox, Opera).
They could have built a browser based on Firefox or talked to Opera about that initiative to build a custom browser.
December 25th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
I’m pretty sure they mean it’s supposedly safer for your child because they block so many sites, but i accept your point.
“Children can only access prescreened child-appropriate sites (over 10,318 sites!)”
So they don’t block bad sites, but block everything and allow good sites? 10,000 sites is nothing, but i suppose it’s good if you’re an overprotective parent. Wouldn’t like to be the kid in the deal though.
“Exclusive “desktop lockdown” prevents web access from another browser”
Might install it to see how it does it.