Posts Tagged ‘languages’

Overcoming your Kid’s Internet Language Barrier

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Kids communicate, read books, watch television and play games in their own language, so why should their Internet experience be any different?

Children today are an avid Internet user group and, as they are accessing the Internet from all over the world, they require content in many different languages. As there is a huge supply of kids’ content available on the Internet, it is just matter of finding the best content in your kid’s language.

KIDO’Z Speaks Your Kid’s Language

KIDO’Z does this for you by giving you the ability to customize content for your child based on his/her language.

To ensure that your child is accessing content in his/her mother-tongue, you can set KIDO’Z to show only content in his/her preferred language. And if your child is multi-lingual, you can choose for content to be available in up to 3 languages from a selection of over 160 different languages.

This may be done through the Account page of the Parental Control Account under Language Preferences/Kid’s Details.

KIDO’Z Speaks Your Language

And for you, the parent, the KIDO’Z application itself is easily changed into your own language. What this means is that the entire application from the User Interface to the Parental Control Account can be changed into your native language from a choice of 17 languages, to make Parental Control even simpler for you.

This setting is available on the log-in page of your Parental Control Account as well as in your Account section under Parent’s Details. All you need to do is to select your preferred language from a drop-down list.

To show you how to change the content language settings for your child and how to change the application language, here is our full video tutorial:

For additional KIDO’Z video tutorials please visit:

How To Add New Videos into KIDO’Z

How to Add New Websites into KIDO’Z

Enjoy these tutorials and if you have any suggestions for future video tutorials, please drop us a mail at support@kidoz.net.

10 Most Popular Websites for Kids

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

As there is a seemingly endless supply of child-appropriate websites on the Internet, kids’ websites are facing the same challenges as other sites on the net, namely bringing traffic and capturing the users’ attention.

In a quest to drive website traffic and increase site popularity, marketers and brands are all doing their best to stand out and attract users, and to convince them to visit their websites. This, however, is quite a complicated task, as young kids visiting sites depend totally on their parents to set up the sites for them.

But what happens when you put all the kids’ websites into one place and create easy navigation for children to surf these sites? What happens when you let the kids decide for themselves what their favorites are from a big selection ?

This is exactly what happens in KIDO’Z, and what this Kid’s Web Environment does is it gives every kids’ website a fair chance to make its mark, by letting the kids themselves decide what their most popular websites are, regardless of marketing spending and online efforts.

Websites are added to KIDO’Z by parents and educators from all over the world. The KIDO’Z smart content engine ensures that, in addition to personalizing the content for each kid, all content that has been recently added is getting exposure. This keeps the content fresh for the kids and give the new content a chance to become popular.

The following list represents the 10 most visited sites on KIDO’Z by kids from more than 80 countries. Through KIDO’Z, young children have direct access to hundreds of kids websites in more than 30 languages in a safe, central place. These websites are identified by colorful eye-catching thumbnails and children simply need to click on the image of their choice to visit the site. Children can also easily add any website to their Favorites section for fast and easy return to the sites that they like the most.

You’ll notice that even though some of the big brands are up there, there are also a couple of unique, smaller sites that are making their mark. For example, Fun Brain and Poisson Rouge are listed among the most popular English websites in KIDO’Z, and through KIDO’Z, they are given the opportunity to compete with some of the established big brands. These two sites fall under the educational website category and use learning games and activities to educate children. The popularity of these sites could be indicative of the demand by children for educational and interactive website content.

Below you can find lists of the most popular sites by languages:

Most popular kids’ sites in English:

  1. Fun Brain
  2. Dora
  3. Mickey Mouse
  4. Hot Wheels
  5. Poisson Rouge
  6. Roary the Racing Car
  7. Ben 10
  8. Barbie
  9. PBS Kids
  10. Thomas

Most popular kids’ sites in French:

  1. Pocoyo
  2. Mila
  3. Wumpa le Morse
  4. Monsieur Madame
  5. Caillou
  6. Petite Princesse
  7. Petit Ours Brun
  8. Bali
  9. Clifford
  10. Chez Polo

Most popular kids’ sites in Spanish:

  1. Pocoyo
  2. Cartoon Network
  3. Jetix
  4. Disney Playhouse Spain
  5. Discovery Kids
  6. Cuentos Interactivos
  7. Mundo Nick
  8. Wumpa
  9. Infantil
  10. Barbie

Most popular kids’ sites in Italian:

  1. Pocoyo
  2. Gormiti
  3. La Casa di Topolino
  4. Tigger & Pooh
  5. Manny Tuttofare
  6. Little Einsteins
  7. Higglytown Heroes
  8. Il Circo di Jojo
  9. Bunnytown
  10. Rolie Polie Olie