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Thursday’s NGT News Roundup

by NGT

Reach Kids Before the School Bell Rings [New York Post]
Marketers and advertisers are breaching out in order to connect to wired kids during the shopping craze before the school year starts. HP is dedicating 70% of their back to school budget to online pursuits.

‘Facebook Effect’ Boosts Site Traffic [Media Post]
Companies with good Facebook apps are seeing huge increases in their site’s traffic in what is being known as “the Facebook effect.”

Study Finds More Adults Are Watching Web Videos [NYT]
On any given day, one in five adults watch some form of online video. News is the most common source, comedy second.

Wikipedia corrects Encyclopedia Britannica [Wikipedia via c|net]
Wikipedia took a swipe at the Encyclopedia Britannica by posting a list of all the incorrect facts in the tome that have been corrected on their site. First on the list: Britannica’s claim to be the largest English-language general encyclopedia.

The rise of cyberbullying [NewScientistTech]
A sobering new study shows that a full one third of teenagers online have been cyber-bullied. One of the suggested solutions is software that would let students see video of another child getting bullied and letting the student type in advice.

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