KidZui Launches New Version of Company’s Award-Winning
Kid’s Browser, Featuring New Ways for Children and Parents
to Safely Discover and Share the Internet Together
New Version Also Leverages Facebook Connect to Allow Parent Facebook Friends to Easily Connect their Children as KidZui Friends
SAN DIEGO--KidZui, the award-winning Internet for kids, today announced the launch of KidZui 5.0, featuring advanced functionality for parents and children to safely discover and share the Internet together. KidZui’s new KidConnect capabilities are designed to maximize parent and child computer screen time as an opportunity to spark a deeper connection and dialogue through shared content online. With one-click, children can now easily send KidZui-approved videos, websites, and photographs to their parents. Parents can now also easily send content directly to their children. KidZui will continue to provide weekly activity email reports to parents about their kids’ interests; the new sharing capabilities are meant to further enable parents in the digital era to leverage technology positively.
Beyond the ability for parents and kids to quickly and conveniently share content through KidZui, Version 5.0 also enables parents using Facebook to easily connect with other parents and to connect their kids with one another, providing a safe and secure opportunity to create friendship and community online.
Having successfully made the Internet both safe and fun for kids, KidZui developed Version 5.0 in an effort to meet the rapidly growing trend of more and more families spending time at home online. Through the launch of Version 5.0, parents can maximize their kid’s screen time to foster an active dialogue offline by sharing content surrounding topics of interest such as websites, videos and games. The move signals yet another dynamic offering from the company’s flagship service, the KidZui browser, providing access to KidZui’s over 2 million parent and teacher reviewed kid-safe games, websites, photographs and videos.
“As kids are spending an increasing amount of time online we recognized an important opportunity to empower families to connect and bond through KidZui,” said KidZui CEO, Cliff Boro. “Having successfully made the Internet both safe and fun for kids, we’re now offering Version 5.0 as a powerful medium, enabling families to foster relationships offline by sharing content and discovering new interests.”
Between the computer screen and the mobile screen, kids are adopting the Internet at a faster rate than any other consumer segment in the U.S. In fact, Nielsen reported a 63% increase in time spent online over the past 5 years for children ages 2-11. Overall, the trend highlights a need for complementary technologies, like KidZui 5.0, designed to unite families offline through a dialogue sparked online.
Since KidZui was introduced in the Spring of 2008, more than 1 million children and parents have registered for the service. KidZui’s audience has grown 300% in the past year mostly through word of mouth. Children have spent more than 5 million hours using KidZui and have visited over 100 million web pages, videos and photographs. KidZui kids have tagged or voted over 7.8 million times, and they’ve safely shared over 4.4 million items with each other. KidZui has received numerous awards and honors including the Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award, the Wired Safety Best of the Web Award, the Parents Choice Award, and the National Parenting Publications Award to name just a few.
To access KidZui 5.0 and KidConnect, please visit KidZui.com to register for a free account. Once downloaded, parents can set up and customize their parent account and begin sharing content with their kids.
KidZui is headquartered in San Diego, California.
About KidZui
KidZui, the Internet for kids, is the leader in making the Internet big, fun, and safe for children ages 3-12. What Google, YouTube and Facebook are for grownups; KidZui is for kids. The Company’s flagship offering is the revolutionary KidZui Browser, a small application that downloads easily on PCs, Macs, and computers with FireFox. The KidZui Browser was designed from the ground-up to allow children to safely and independently search, share and discover more than 2 million parent and teacher approved websites, pictures, games and videos. KidZui’s purpose is to keep kids safe online, empower their curiosity, and engage parents with their kids’ interests (through weekly parental emails and parental controls). In addition to the core service, the KidZui Web Network includes ZuiGames (the best site for child-appropriate flash games on the web) and ZuiTube (the best site for kids to watch and explore kid-appropriate YouTube videos). KidZui is backed by Emergence Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Maveron and the Scholastic Corporation. The Company is headquartered in San Diego, California.
