Crisp Thinking(R) Protects Xivio Users During Record Growth in Virtual World and Social Networking Environments

Crisp Thinking, the online child protection specialist, has signed up a new client, Xivio, a virtual world and social networking website for kids. Xivio has experienced record growth in the last 60 days and is bolstering its offering with NetModerator’s monitoring of live chat interactions thereby ensuring the safety of its young customer base.

Crisp’s NetModerator protects children from inappropriate conversations, bullying and potential sexual predators while visiting virtual communities. “Increased usage of social networks and virtual communities is putting web site moderators under immense pressure to identify and track inappropriate content and potentially harmful relationships. Xivio is amongst the first to recognize that this will only increase exponentially. Crisp’s NetModerator will dramatically enhance Xivio’s ability to police their site effectively,” said Andrew Lintell, Chief Executive of Crisp Thinking.

Online safety is a concern for those who participate in social networking sites and for parents whose children are active in cyber communities. Xivio takes their responsibility seriously to protect the children that use the service and have previously developed their own content filtering tools, the “Parents Zone” and a patent pending democratic content rating system. However, the addition of NetModerator to this suite of tools will provide unparalleled levels of protection. “Xivio is committed to providing a healthy and interactive virtual world for its users. Thus, the combination of Crisp and Xivio is ideal for the ultimate protection online,” said David Wisotzky, founder and CEO of Xivio.

About Crisp Thinking:

With offices in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK and Beaverton, Oregon, Crisp offers a range of child protection solutions for Virtual Worlds/Social Networks, home Internet users and Internet Service Providers. Crisp has responsible and specialist knowledge of the issues surrounding online child safety which address the increasingly complex tactics of abusers and bullies. For more information, please visit us online at www.crispthinking.com or our new acquisition, IMSafer at www.imsafer.com.

About Xivio:

Xivio was launched in Miami, Florida in April 2006. Xivio is a Flash-driven virtual world chat room environment for children, tweens, and teens. Xivio avatars and virtual rooms are completely modifiable so that members can personalize their space which allows for a type of real-time interaction not seen on other social networking sites worldwide. Online safety is a big concern for users and parents in these communities, thus Xivio monitors the communications through its patent pending democratic content rating system and Parents Zone. For more information, please visit www.xivio.com.

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