Monday, March 30, 2009

Two Point Oh Teen Webshow Goodness

COLLEAGUE JILL GOLICK has been exploring the world of web-delivered video content for some time now, and has written about it extensively on one of her blogs, Story2oh.com.

She's now debuting her next project, which looks like a lot of fun.

From the Press Release:

TORONTO, March 27, 2009 — Story2.OH and giraffesoft introduce Hailey Hacks, a series of web videos starring Toronto grade 6 student, Marlee Maslove. Hailey (Maslove) is the Hermione Grainger of web wizardry showing 8-13 year olds all kinds of cool things they can do with their computers.

“Kids have these very powerful machines at their fingertips,” says series creator Jill Golick, “but no one’s teaching them the incredible scope of what they can do with them.” The mandate of the series is to broaden tweens’ use of the computer beyond games, Google and YouTube to include the wider world of blogs, widgets, RSS feeds, social bookmarks and the amazing tools that exist on the web for creating, collaborating and communicating.


My standard rap on the future of web video tends to be that there's probably a 13 year old girl out there who has the secret to doing it right. Smart move, Jill... targeting the demo for whom Web Video is already no big deal, especially in the country that already seems to be an early and heavy adopter of the web video experience.

On the web: www.haileyhacks.com


1 comment:

Jill Golick said...

Thanks for the plug Denis. The web is a big experiment now and I'm just throwing things at it to see what sticks.