8 days and counting until the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East.

Melrose Place‘Melrose Place’ is coming baaack (to The CW. And from the department of remakes that make me sad: Zac Efron will dance his way through the new “Footloose.”) (Entertainment Weekly) (E! Online)

- Mediabistro gets to know… (Luke Russert, 23-year-old son of the late Tim Russert)

- MySpace is tops (with young filmgoers. Plus new study urges bosses to embrace younger employees’ use of social networking sites instead of banning them as time wasters) (Variety) (BBC)

- myYearbook breaks the top 20 (websites [they are a Ypulse sponsor]. And Stardoll brings its virtual celebrity avatars to the Middle East. Plus Kiwibox jumps on the ad network bandwagon) (901am) (TechCrunch) (MediaPost, reg. required)

- For the tween girl ‘over’ princesses (Disney offers Tink and friends. Plus WhatTheyPlay on Nick’s Naked Brothers Band game) (Marketplace)

- Is the ‘instant answer’ generation… (unable to answer complex questions? One researcher says, “yes.” And
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2008/10/28/dealing-with-sleep-loss-in-teens/”>tech blamed for teen sleep loss
. Plus some really cool mobile learning sites unearthed by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center: Studywiz Mobile, Learning2Go, and Mscape) (BBC) (WSJ)