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Yet another community for teens (Teens In Tech) is launching in alpha mode today. What sets this one apart from the rest is that the founder and CEO is a teen himself, giving him an unbeatable edge because he is part of his own demographic. When Daniel Brusilovsky isn’t in class, the tech entrepreneur is hosting four tech podcasts and covering industry events for mobile vidcasting service Qik.
At this point, there are so many budding bloggers and vloggers out there that a media outlet specifically tailored to these tech-savvy teens bound to be successful. And because there are teen brains – as opposed to adults trying to get into teen brains – behind the project
Teens in Tech is a community for teenagers who produce new media content. Founded by Daniel Brusilovsky in February 2008, the service, currently in private alpha, provides access to a personalized sub-domain, 100 MB of storage, and the Teens in Tech support team.
We spoke to Sean Quinn, Director of Marketing, PR, for the site [also a teen of course], who said that they want to remove the barriers to entry, i.e. paying for web hosting, that prevent some teens from launching their own media. He doesn’t see it as a teen hangout site like Facebook or MyYearbook, although he added that “If someone wants to say I got beat up at school today and someone took my lunch money, we’re not going to turn them away.” Quinn sees the site as a way to get teens into the Web 2.0 world, a stepping stone or introduction to new media. They plan to launch a series of tutorials on podcasting and vidcasting as well.
Like most Web 2.0 companies, they don’t have their revenue model quite figured out yet. Quinn said they’re working on it. The goal is to market the site word of mouth, from teen to teen, member to member. They do have a Board of Advisors that includes Web 2.0 stars like Robert Scoble.
It will be interesting to see how this community evolves…definitely one to watch.
