June 28, 2007—Coinciding with Internet Safety Month, imbee.com (www.imbee.com), the first parent-approved social networking destination for tweens, today announced enhanced media features which enable the most comprehensive and authentic user generated experience for their target demographic (kids from 8-14). Expanding far beyond its public beta incarnation, these new offerings establish the network as the premier destination to help foster creativity and build a more purposeful relationship between tweens and the Internet.

Unlike the majority of tween oriented destinations which are either fantasy based virtual worlds or branded game and entertainment portals, imbee.com supports user generated content that is not corporate defined, allowing its members to personalize their own online user experience. All of imbee.com’s members can upload graphics and audio files, listen to music, watch exclusive video clips or customize their blog spots with artwork and more.

“Kids should have more options beyond game playing when it comes to their online experiences,” said Jeanette Symons, CEO for imbee.com. “imbee.com was developed to enable our members to define their own user experience, and focus more on their own content creation instead of just corporate content consumption. By making learning fun through hands-on exploration and their, we believe our kids will become better, more productive Internet citizens.”

The new offerings include:

• Enhanced User Interface – imbee.com’s new user interface has been enhanced to showcase the site’s incredibly vibrant tween community with unique features, widgets and exclusive content.
  
• Audio and Video – imbee.com now provides its members with the ability to upload audio or video files directly into their blog spot, making it easy to share fun content or media with their approved circle of friends.
  
• Exclusive Media Library – Now members can select their favorite songs or music videos by accessing imbee.com’s exclusive media library. imbee.com hosts the brightest young stars in the entertainment industry, including: Hilary Duff, The Cheetah Girls, Ashley Tisdale, Jordan Pruitt, Belinda, NLT and more.
  
• Trading Card Maker – imbee.com has introduced a new custom digital trading card maker. This allows members to design and then personalize their own trading, photo and promise cards by either uploading their own graphics or by selecting images from imbee.com’s expansive graphics library.
  
• Widget Library – Now members can access imbee.com’s interactive widget library in order to choose from a large variety of single or multi-player games and activities.
  

Beyond its entertainment elements, imbee.com provides tweens, parents, educators, and Internet safety advocates with a viable, age-appropriate alternative to other open blogging and social networking sites, while including extensive security features to make it an ideal topic during Internet Safety Month. No other tween destination offers as many built-in security features as imbee.com, including: user authentication, parental controls, controlled scope of publishing, content privacy and more.

“imbee.com is paving new roads when it comes to introducing tweens to user generated content and social networking,” said Tim Donovan, vice president of marketing for imbee.com. “Because the online behavior of tweens is influenced by what they see older teenagers doing, imbee.com allows them to share in the same activities, but in a parent-approved environment. Now our members have the freedom to develop and share content with their friends just like their teen counter parts, but in an age appropriate setting.”

Because of its security features, imbee.com is also the only tween social network to have successfully launched a free school blogging program, now utilized by more than 500 schools and school districts representing every state in the continental United States.

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