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Black Friday may be next week, but a lot of good sales are already active! Before I continue, with the holiday shopping experience in full swing, here are a few tips I have for you: Compare prices. One store’s “sale” price may be higher than another store’s. The major stores will also price-match each other, ... Read more

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We know Millennials have more relaxed views about online privacy (than do older generations, but even they might think Warner Bros. has crossed the line with its new online “social series” called “Aim High.” Starring Jackson... Read the rest of this post

Today's Ypuse Guest Post comes from John Cahill, CEO at Meez who offered to share his insight on the growing number of virtual worlds teaming up with charities and non-profits to hold pro-social campaigns around youth causes and the potential that... Read the rest of this post

Last year was known as “the worst back-to-school since World War II." This time around recovery talk is in the air, but a recent survey shows that spending is expected to decrease 10% for kids 7-12 and 12% for teenagers 13-17. Yikes. Sales have... Read the rest of this post

Staples teams with DoSomething.org (to once again launch their national BTS school drive campaign, adding star power along with new mobile and online elements. And in higher education, colleges study up on cheating techniques to curb incidents on... Read the rest of this post

AOL, Jonas Group to launch Cambio (the latest music video network and entertainment portal looking to become the "MTV of the Web." The site will supposedly target "13 to 24 year-olds," but given the JoBros presence, I'm betting on more tween appeal.... Read the rest of this post

Mountain Dew returns to the UK (by popular demand, announcing the end of its 12 year absence with a social media campaign that builds off fans' online petition. Also MediaPost, reg. required, talks to Ford exec Thomais Zaremba on the long lead up... Read the rest of this post

As I walked the Penn campus on Monday I was struck by images of endings. This is a close-up of a campus information kiosk—all the advertisements, slogans, promises, queries snatched out from the rust-grip of staples. Come January, it will all be new again.

Here, in between corporate projects and Christmas shopping, between the tree I haven't gotten yet and the countless gifts I have, I am at work on a final round of edits for my adult novel. Come Monday, the book will be ready for prime time, which is to say, for its submission to editors. There's no telling what will happen after that. All I can say for certain is this: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto read it closely, and so did my agent, Amy Rennert. This book is already far better for the time they took with it—for the questions they asked, for the themes they parsed, for the way they told the story back to me.

In the flurry of media attention around this season's back-to-school shopping push, the focus has been split (not surprisingly) between the projected downturn-induced dip in numbers and a move towards integrating even more social media into... Read the rest of this post

Everything Wall Street wanted to know about teen media habits (but was afraid to ask. 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern Matthew Robson explains it all — from teens love of texting and Wii, to their lack of interest in newspapers and Twitter... Read the rest of this post