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Does anyone know existing sites already doing this?

I find myself not getting a lot of value out the news sites I peruse lately, and would gladly pay for something that is put together with more 'care' and a focus on journalism over sensationalism.

Totally sympathize. It can indeed be frustrating. The top lists aren't exactly structured to facilitate finding the best apps for a kid given their current developmental stage. You can google some resources and lists online, find some curated marketplaces that are making lists of apps appropriate for building certain skills, and appropriate for certain ages, but it's all an extra step outside the extreme convenience of the on-device app store.

A plea to parents purchasing iPad Apps for children:

Stop buying apps that do stuff like this.

If you see that an app has a $99 in-app berry purchase, don't download or buy it.

If you see that an app encourages children to poke and sling animals and destroy things, don't buy it.

Do a small bit of research to see if the app was designed with your child's age in mind. Buy apps from trusted sources like http://tocaboca.com/ , http://piikeastreet.com (disclosure:that's me), http://www.duckduckmoosedesign.com/ , etc.

If you buy more of the good stuff, there will be more good stuff to buy!

+1 I used domai.nr as well, but less frequently than the other two mentioned. Domai.nr is great for finding shorter names and creative variations of longer ones.

Additionally:

- What is his opinion of the risk/reward trade-off in attempting to do lots of co-marketing between early stage companies?

- Is any publicity good publicity when you're small?

I've adopted a strategy (on flexvite.com) where I test and push each change immediately, but periodically roll-up and announce a list of changes since the last roll-up.

I'm still calling these roll-up summaries 'releases' on the web site since people are familiar with that concept. I've received some positive feedback about using this approach. People like the immediacy of how quickly their feedback is addressed, but they also like being able to thumb through a summary of "What's new" since they last looked.

Here are some examples of those summary pages (they look just like release changelogs): 1. http://blog.flexvite.com/2009/12/17/flexvite-splat-release/ 2. http://blog.flexvite.com/2009/11/11/pow-10-new-flexvite-beta... 3. http://blog.flexvite.com/2009/10/12/14-new-flexvite-beta-imp...

The hardest thing for me is deciding where to draw the line and do an announcement of changes that have been released recently. I've considered announcing individual changes one-by-one as they happen on appropriate mediums (i.e.-twitter), but it seems like it would be a little spammy.