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TotSpot: Social publishing for the short crowd

Categories: Newborns, Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Gadgets & tech, That's entertainment

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen. With the success of MySpace and Facebook, the popularity of parenting blogs and a whole generation that'll learn to use a mouse before they learn to jumprope, TotSpot is bringing social publishing to the preschool set.

Of course, tots can't really network themselves, so it'll be parents that log on to publish photos, stories and videos about their kids online. And while parents can do all of those things already using weblogs, photosharing sites, YouTube and the like, TotSpot aims to pull it all together -- and then some. Co-founder Adam Katz assures me that you won't have to be a tech-savvy parent to use TotSpot: "It's the easiest publishing platform on the internet," he says.

Privacy settings will allow parents to control who has access to the site. Unique templates for baby's milestones, growth charts, and other "firsts" will tempt parents to toss their paper baby books in the trash. Social networking features, like "friending" and photo tags, will allow members to share content automatically with others.

Recognizing that any childhood is really a shared memory, TotSpot not only allows comments from friends and family members, but also lets parents choose others to contribute content. Grandma can write her own tale of little Janie's first birthday party, and Uncle Rob can upload the pictures he took at the family reunion directly into the site.

TotSpot is currently in a private beta version but is accepting sign-ups for new users. If you submit your e-mail via their homepage now, you can expect an invitation to play in the next week or two. The service is free. Get in now, and you can say you were TotSpotting before TotSpotting was cool.

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