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Here’s a link to an AP story on CBSnews.com. My column on Ning will be in the San Jose Mercury News (and here) on Monday. In the mean time, here’s a link to my CBS […]

I just tested a product that I love, but there’s no way that I’d recommend it unless you have more money than you know what to do with.The product is the Panasonic DMP-BD10 — a […]

As this BBC story explains, social networking is going mobile.  This has interesting implications when you consider that people have their cell phones with them at all times.  Expect less text and more graphics, video and […]

This is a long way from being major competition for Microsoft, but it certainly is an example of how the web can change everything. The days of “big software” probably are limited though it will […]

NetSmartz411.org advises parents by Larry Magid Special to the Mercury News Most of the time I write about gadgets or fun Web sites, but today’s column is about a more serious topic: Keeping your kids […]

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is launching a new Web site to answer parents’ questions about Internet safety and computers. The free service features an interactive knowledge-base where parents can use […]

My good friend Anne Collier, my co-author of MySpace Unraveled and my co-director of BlogSafety.com publishes a very nice newsletter about family tech news. Here’s the TOC of her latest issue. Teen child-porn convictions upheld […]

I’m in Washington DC today helping to launch the Family Online Safety Institute. For details, see this AP story By DIBYA SARKAR AP BUSINESS WRITER WASHINGTON — The explosion of social networking sites such as […]

by Larry Magid Special to the Mercury News With the explosion of services like YouTube, video is all the rage. But few of us are ambitious or outgoing enough to create and post our own […]

More than a dozen years ago I wrote a booklet for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children called Child Safety on the Information Highway. Millions of copies are in print and countless people […]