Kid-Friendly Internet Launches

Few YouTube videos are age-appropriate for a toddler or a pre-teen. And even fewer parents will take the time to find that dinosaur-related clip amid a slew of music and college-partying videos. But a new Web company aims to do the work for parents. KidZui, a subscription-based browser that will cost parents $9.95 a month or $99.95 a year, offers a cordoned-off Internet for kids that features hundreds of thousands of reviewed sites, images and video for kids age 3 to 12. KidZui (pronounced kid-ZOO-ee) plans to open its service Wednesday after roughly three years of development. "With Internet filters, most parents think they're blocking the worst of the Web, but there's so much great content for kids," said Cliff Boro, KidZui CEO and a serial tech entrepreneur. "We're taking the power of the Net and bringing it to kids in a kid-friendly way." Kids sites are all the rage. Everyone from Disney to PBS to Mattel has launched new virtual worlds in recent months or years with various attractions for kids. PBS, for example, recently unveiled a subscription-based virtual environment that uses games to teach kids the basics of reading or math. What's different about KidZui is that instead of trying to create a new imaginary world for children online, it has pulled together content from the Web, ensured it's appropriate for kids, and then built an engaging environment for kids around that content.
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