Comments on: AnnesDiary.com – Anne of Green Gables gets Fingerprinted http://startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/ Canadian Startup Community Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Emily Want http://startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/comment-page-1/#comment-9799 Emily Want Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:43:31 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/#comment-9799 Hi Jonas and Jevon - thanks for your piece on annesdiary.com Just wanted to clarify a few points about the site and how the system works - and most importantly to address your suggestion that we ?lose the sponsor process and fingerprint scanner?. To do this would mean that we are no longer offering the most secure environment for children available, and put annesdiary.com in the same category as all of the other social networking sites which offer only a very basic level of protection (if any). What is unique about our site is that by asking each and every member to complete a registration process involving a professional sponsor and by providing a personal fingerprint reader, we know the age and identity of all of our members. As with the passport application process, sponsors are professionals who must provide us with a work address and contact number where we can contact them directly. As you say, this process can take up to a couple of weeks, but all of our customers know that this is a small price to pay for the peace of mind of a secure environment for their children. You may also be interested to know that we have also revised our pricing structure thanks to a positive initial launch phase, and are now offering the service for just $4.95 per month. That?s less than 17 cents per day, hopefully making the service available to even more families. Re the chat monitoring and word blockage, this is something which is in place within the production site and if children do experience inappropriate behaviour or feel threatened in any way, they have a ?report abuse? button which lets us know immediately that there is a problem. Because we know the identity and location of each user, we have the ability to suspend the account of any user who is behaving in an inappropriate manner until the issue has been resolved. The Chatroom on the demo version of annesdiary.com was taken down on December 17th due to misuse by adults so I assume that you tried it out before then or, if not, perhaps you are referring to the diary itself? You can, as you discovered, write whatever you wish within the diary as this is a private area belonging to each individual member where they are encouraged to express their ideas and feelings freely. Mum and dad can request to see entries though if they wish. The system does have a time-out which logs children out of the secure bedroom if they step away from the computer for a period of time, and they can only log back in again using their unique fingerprint. You're right to point out that no system is fool-proof, but we are confident that this site offers a level of security which goes way beyond that which is otherwise available. Hopefully this goes some way to answering your questions about annesdiary.com. The site is adding more features each week and we also now have a resident safety advisor for parents and children in Robyn MacEachern, an OPP sergeant and member of the Youth Crimes Prevention division. For further info please get in touch at info@annesdiary.com Hi Jonas and Jevon – thanks for your piece on annesdiary.com
Just wanted to clarify a few points about the site and how the system works – and most importantly to address your suggestion that we ?lose the sponsor process and fingerprint scanner?.
To do this would mean that we are no longer offering the most secure environment for children available, and put annesdiary.com in the same category as all of the other social networking sites which offer only a very basic level of protection (if any). What is unique about our site is that by asking each and every member to complete a registration process involving a professional sponsor and by providing a personal fingerprint reader, we know the age and identity of all of our members. As with the passport application process, sponsors are professionals who must provide us with a work address and contact number where we can contact them directly.
As you say, this process can take up to a couple of weeks, but all of our customers know that this is a small price to pay for the peace of mind of a secure environment for their children.

You may also be interested to know that we have also revised our pricing structure thanks to a positive initial launch phase, and are now offering the service for just $4.95 per month. That?s less than 17 cents per day, hopefully making the service available to even more families.

Re the chat monitoring and word blockage, this is something which is in place within the production site and if children do experience inappropriate behaviour or feel threatened in any way, they have a ?report abuse? button which lets us know immediately that there is a problem. Because we know the identity and location of each user, we have the ability to suspend the account of any user who is behaving in an inappropriate manner until the issue has been resolved. The Chatroom on the demo version of annesdiary.com was taken down on December 17th due to misuse by adults so I assume that you tried it out before then or, if not, perhaps you are referring to the diary itself? You can, as you discovered, write whatever you wish within the diary as this is a private area belonging to each individual member where they are encouraged to express their ideas and feelings freely. Mum and dad can request to see entries though if they wish. The system does have a time-out which logs children out of the secure bedroom if they step away from the computer for a period of time, and they can only log back in again using their unique fingerprint. You’re right to point out that no system is fool-proof, but we are confident that this site offers a level of security which goes way beyond that which is otherwise available.

Hopefully this goes some way to answering your questions about annesdiary.com. The site is adding more features each week and we also now have a resident safety advisor for parents and children in Robyn MacEachern, an OPP sergeant and member of the Youth Crimes Prevention division. For further info please get in touch at info@annesdiary.com

]]> By: Emily Want http://startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/comment-page-1/#comment-1122 Emily Want Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:43:31 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/#comment-1122 Hi Jonas and Jevon - thanks for your piece on annesdiary.com Just wanted to clarify a few points about the site and how the system works - and most importantly to address your suggestion that we “lose the sponsor process and fingerprint scanner”. To do this would mean that we are no longer offering the most secure environment for children available, and put annesdiary.com in the same category as all of the other social networking sites which offer only a very basic level of protection (if any). What is unique about our site is that by asking each and every member to complete a registration process involving a professional sponsor and by providing a personal fingerprint reader, we know the age and identity of all of our members. As with the passport application process, sponsors are professionals who must provide us with a work address and contact number where we can contact them directly. As you say, this process can take up to a couple of weeks, but all of our customers know that this is a small price to pay for the peace of mind of a secure environment for their children. You may also be interested to know that we have also revised our pricing structure thanks to a positive initial launch phase, and are now offering the service for just $4.95 per month. That’s less than 17 cents per day, hopefully making the service available to even more families. Re the chat monitoring and word blockage, this is something which is in place within the production site and if children do experience inappropriate behaviour or feel threatened in any way, they have a ‘report abuse’ button which lets us know immediately that there is a problem. Because we know the identity and location of each user, we have the ability to suspend the account of any user who is behaving in an inappropriate manner until the issue has been resolved. The Chatroom on the demo version of annesdiary.com was taken down on December 17th due to misuse by adults so I assume that you tried it out before then or, if not, perhaps you are referring to the diary itself? You can, as you discovered, write whatever you wish within the diary as this is a private area belonging to each individual member where they are encouraged to express their ideas and feelings freely. Mum and dad can request to see entries though if they wish. The system does have a time-out which logs children out of the secure bedroom if they step away from the computer for a period of time, and they can only log back in again using their unique fingerprint. You're right to point out that no system is fool-proof, but we are confident that this site offers a level of security which goes way beyond that which is otherwise available. Hopefully this goes some way to answering your questions about annesdiary.com. The site is adding more features each week and we also now have a resident safety advisor for parents and children in Robyn MacEachern, an OPP sergeant and member of the Youth Crimes Prevention division. For further info please get in touch at info@annesdiary.com Hi Jonas and Jevon – thanks for your piece on annesdiary.com
Just wanted to clarify a few points about the site and how the system works – and most importantly to address your suggestion that we “lose the sponsor process and fingerprint scanner”.
To do this would mean that we are no longer offering the most secure environment for children available, and put annesdiary.com in the same category as all of the other social networking sites which offer only a very basic level of protection (if any). What is unique about our site is that by asking each and every member to complete a registration process involving a professional sponsor and by providing a personal fingerprint reader, we know the age and identity of all of our members. As with the passport application process, sponsors are professionals who must provide us with a work address and contact number where we can contact them directly.
As you say, this process can take up to a couple of weeks, but all of our customers know that this is a small price to pay for the peace of mind of a secure environment for their children.

You may also be interested to know that we have also revised our pricing structure thanks to a positive initial launch phase, and are now offering the service for just $4.95 per month. That’s less than 17 cents per day, hopefully making the service available to even more families.

Re the chat monitoring and word blockage, this is something which is in place within the production site and if children do experience inappropriate behaviour or feel threatened in any way, they have a ‘report abuse’ button which lets us know immediately that there is a problem. Because we know the identity and location of each user, we have the ability to suspend the account of any user who is behaving in an inappropriate manner until the issue has been resolved. The Chatroom on the demo version of annesdiary.com was taken down on December 17th due to misuse by adults so I assume that you tried it out before then or, if not, perhaps you are referring to the diary itself? You can, as you discovered, write whatever you wish within the diary as this is a private area belonging to each individual member where they are encouraged to express their ideas and feelings freely. Mum and dad can request to see entries though if they wish. The system does have a time-out which logs children out of the secure bedroom if they step away from the computer for a period of time, and they can only log back in again using their unique fingerprint. You’re right to point out that no system is fool-proof, but we are confident that this site offers a level of security which goes way beyond that which is otherwise available.

Hopefully this goes some way to answering your questions about annesdiary.com. The site is adding more features each week and we also now have a resident safety advisor for parents and children in Robyn MacEachern, an OPP sergeant and member of the Youth Crimes Prevention division. For further info please get in touch at info@annesdiary.com

]]> By: Jonas Brandon http://startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/comment-page-1/#comment-9798 Jonas Brandon Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:45 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/#comment-9798 An alternative might simply involve sending parents a daily email of their child's communication online with keywords flagged and webspeak translated. An alternative might simply involve sending parents a daily email of their child’s communication online with keywords flagged and webspeak translated.

]]> By: Jonas Brandon http://startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/comment-page-1/#comment-925 Jonas Brandon Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:45 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/01/16/annesdiarycom-anne-of-green-gables-gets-fingerprinted/#comment-925 An alternative might simply involve sending parents a daily email of their child's communication online with keywords flagged and webspeak translated. An alternative might simply involve sending parents a daily email of their child’s communication online with keywords flagged and webspeak translated.

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