Safe Internet for Kids

This looks interesting for those who have kids surfing the web… I found it today on one of my regular reads Techcrunch – here’s a bit of their description:

“The concern for children’s safety on the net has been around for years and has usually been addressed with software that attempts to blacklist all the worst parts of the web (and pornographic websites in particular). The fundamental problem with this type of software is that no blacklist can be complete given the rate at which the web grows each day, so holes through which children can access the inappropriate content they’re supposedly protected from are bound to appear.

KidZui takes the opposite approach to these traditional solutions. Instead of blacklisting all the “bad” sites, it whitelists only the “good” ones. ….. the company has hired around 200 teachers and parents from across the United States to scour the net for appropriate sites and content. So far they’ve whitelisted about 500,000 websites, as well as many videos found on YouTube….As a result, KidZui has effectively cordoned off a safe area where parents can let their children roam free. “

At 10$/month it’s a bit pricey but might be worth it for the peace of mind. 

Glubble is a free option – an add-on to Firefox that I haven’t explored much but looks interesting.