Digital Penguins

Some 750,000 British children aged between 6 and 14 are estimated to inhabit Club Penguin, the brainchild of two Canadian entrepreneurs who as parents became frustrated with the lack of the options for kids who wanted to play computer games but also meet friends online.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3831738.ece

This game seems to prove that people are becoming more open minded when it comes to interaction online. These games encourage people to let their kids interact with other kids on games for children. This would most likely make kids have better social skills and be more open-minded since they can interact with a wide variety of other children from all over the world. After looking around, I saw that the market for children’s Massively Multiplayer Online games is actually booming. There are many games, and surprisingly on some games a good percentage of the gamers are female. This could mean that since these games are being introduced so early on in young people’s lives, there will be more girls that like video games. This could lead to gamers of the future no longer be the stereotyped nerdy kids that hole up in their basement and never have girlfriends.

Digital Candy

Digital Candy is a great new program to search for files on the bit torrent networks, giving you a better chance of finding what you require. It will search many sites at the same time, saving you time and it also has an updater, so the sites should always be up to date.

http://www.downloadroute.com/digital-candy-digital-candy.html

This seems like it would be a great downloader to have since it searches all the bit torrents to find what you’re looking for. It would save time for many people, but it also means there would probably be a lot more illegal downloading going on faster and more often. So the question comes up, is this a good thing legal-wise? If the law could get all the unlicensed music and video downloads off the bit torrents then it would be fine, but since they can’t it just means more law breaking for most people. I think it’s safe to say that no one can remove all the illegal downloads off of bit torrents, so it seems rather useless to make the argument that this will only speed up illegal activity on the web.