KidZui, Sesame Street

KidZui, which develops kid-targeted content for the web, launches ZuiTube .com, a free online video service that offers kid-friendly content. Initially ZuiTube.com is offering a library of 60,000 parent and teacher approved videos, with new content added daily, as well as allowing kids to upload their own video creations. ZuiTube is powered by YouTube, but is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. KidZui also operates the KidZui browser, which provides access to 2+ million kid-appropriate games, websites and videos.

Sesame Street launches its 40th season on TV on PBS this November 10 (check local listings). With a new show open and close, the new season features a nature-centric curriculum, My World is Green and Growing, including learning about the benefits of planting their own garden, as well as a new "block" format hosted by Word on the Street Muppet, Murray, from real locations around the world. Also new to the series will be the use of CGI animation in Abby's Flying Fairy School, a segment staring series regular Abby Cadabby. Of course there will be celebrity guests appearances as well as parodies of adult properties, this season except a take on Mad Men (minus the smoking and drinking no doubt). Additionally, in honor of the anniversary year November 1o will also see the release of a tw0-disc compilation DVD, Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days and the illustrated coffee-table book A Celebration: 40 Years of Life on the Street.