Comments on: Totlol: The New Saturday Morning Cartoons

By: Totlol Developer Forced To Shut Down Kids Video Service

Totlol Developer Forced To Shut Down Kids Video Service — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:12:48 +0000

[...] down July 1st. When Erick reviewed the service back in November 2008, he deemed the service an impressive alternative to traditional Saturday morning TV cartoon watching and “children’s Web video for the children of the YouTube [...]

By: Speedlinking - Focus On Family » Derek Semmler dot com

Speedlinking - Focus On Family » Derek Semmler dot com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:02:21 +0000

[...] endless supply of videos that they find interesting, I was certainly interested in the mention of Totlol by Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch. Totlol is a collection of thousands of child-appropriate [...]

By: ABC On Demand » Blog Archive » The new Saturdat morning cartoons!

ABC On Demand » Blog Archive » The new Saturdat morning cartoons! — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:41:58 +0000

[...] new Saturdat morning cartoons! Totlol: The New Saturday Morning Cartoons 22 Comments by Erick Schonfeld on November 1, [...]

By: Momma

Momma — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:24:42 +0000

Cool, thanks for the info on this site! I also agree that the parent should always be present when a kid is watching something on this site… this does not take away parental responsibility to monitor what children watch.

Momma

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:09:59 +0000

While I don’t appreciate my country’s style either, I can’t say I agree. Besides, most good Canadian companies end up working out; they just move.

By: dvanosdol

dvanosdol — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:37:53 +0000

I think this is a great service. Here’s another way your kids can watch video (and more) on their own terms. A TechCrunch50 Demo http://kidoscomputer.com/news

By: Raskin

Raskin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:10:29 +0000

Chris is clearly speaking from personal experience. Let’s not doubt him people. He doesn’t like it when you doubt him…

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:05:16 +0000

Christopher Rondot is a well known troll around these parts and especially bitter at Canada because he FAILed here and needs someone to blame.

His record:

beercosoftware . com = FAIL
sitespaces . net = FAIL
orjii . com = FAIL
techlusive . com (and the rest of the network) = FAIL

Sorry but Chris Rondot = FAIL. And I wouldn’t be so harsh if he wasn’t such a colossal jerk.

BTW Chris, ever heard of Flickr or maybe StumbleUpon?

(Note: Edited URLS and resubmitted to get around apparent spam trigger)

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:02:15 +0000

Christopher Rondot is a well known troll around these parts and especially bitter at Canada because he FAILed here and needs someone to blame.

His record:

beercosoftware.com = FAIL
sitespaces.net = FAIL
orjii.com = FAIL
techlusive.com (and the rest of the network) = FAIL

Sorry but Chris Rondot = FAIL. And I wouldn’t be so harsh if he wasn’t such a colossal a**hole.

BTW Chris, ever heard of Flickr or maybe StumbleUpon?

By: Steven Livingstone

Steven Livingstone — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:11:32 +0000

The one problem btw, is that if one video gets through that a kid is NOT supposed to see, the credibility it done. I wouldn’t them let me son click without me being there… which (in part) defeats why the site exists.

Interested in how they administer the managers of content.

By: Steven Livingstone

Steven Livingstone — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:54:45 +0000

YES! Often thought of doing this but just never got the time aside.

My kids will definitely use this and this is a potentially HUGE untapped market.

Contact me if you need feedback or want to pass any ideas!

By: Totlol: YouTube for the young ones | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:40:14 +0000

[...] I am not sure how exactly are they going to promote the service, but they can take in a tip from Erick Schonfeld and create a channel at YouTube to muster more parents and [...]

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:36:52 +0000

Chris, sometimes I wonder what you are on. Seems like whenever a Canadian company is featured on TC, you go off on some bitter rant. Care to elaborate more about your statement below.

“…give all it’s profits to millions of able bodied welfare recipients and corrupt crown corporations, and Italian mafia figures in the Canadian government.”

By: Kataster Nehnuteľností

Kataster Nehnuteľností — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:26:37 +0000

Great work, anybody who have little kid, know what is find something aceptable for his childrens on net

By: Daniel Kemp

Daniel Kemp — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:05:45 +0000

Stuppid? {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/DalQazm597_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Stuppid? ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/OcE7FPjsji”}}}

By: EH

EH — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:39:15 +0000

Anybody who has a 3yo glued to YT should lose their kids.

By: Technology news - Techvibes Blog

Technology news - Techvibes Blog — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:53:36 +0000

[...] coverage of Vancouver’s Totlol on Techcrunch this [...]

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:46:58 +0000

The kids sector seems to have been totally ignored by IPTV. Hulu doesn’t have much for kids in terms of full episodes, finding something for kids in Adobe Media Player is a joke. I wonder why the kids networks haven’t followed NBC, CBS, and ABC by putting more full episodes online?

Totlol might be fun for kids in small 3 minute chunks, but it that’s about it. Not even close to a new “Saturday morning cartoon” experience.

By: Xavier Morgan

Xavier Morgan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:41:25 +0000

I have video sharing sites blocked in OPENDNS, so none of the videos show. It’s hard to apply universal parental controlsand then exception out good sites. Content censorship is fun.

By: Totlol: A fun and safe place for kids and parents

Totlol: A fun and safe place for kids and parents — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:29:57 +0000

Totlol: A fun and safe place for kids and parents…

If there is a place where I could leave my kids on their own in the World Wide Web, it would probably be Totlol. Totlol is a YouTube-powered community-moderated video site designed for kids but parents were the ones that made it all happen for Totlol. …

By: patent looser

patent looser — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:26:17 +0000

I like the site. The only issue I have is that my toddler doesn’t have the skills yet to click on the thumbnails yet, so I’d have to come back to the computer to switch to the next video every 2-3 minutes or so, in which case I’d much rather put a DVD.

By: George

George — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:06:50 +0000

I like the fact that by using Youtube they won’t have any bandwidth cost which makes the business very lean. Hard to fail when costs are minimized.

By: porab

porab — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:01:32 +0000

Amazing. Anyone who has a 3 year old glued to youtube will love this!
Thank you for creating this!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:59:15 +0000

I predict that this website doesn’t have a significant level of success for the simple fact that it’s Canadian. If it starts to have any level of success, the socialist government will move in, Tetris creator style, and give all it’s profits to millions of able bodied welfare recipients and corrupt crown corporations, and Italian mafia figures in the Canadian government.

And thus nothing Canadian, barring RIM which is given a pass go card to show how “you can in Canada”, will ever have significant success. USSR 2.0

By: yahui

yahui — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:54:52 +0000

I like the idea: providing video for kids. We can do the similar thing using Magnify.net. But to bring my kids there… sorry… the name make me and my kids feels stupid… Totlol… is to close to Tolol… which mean, in Indonesian term…. stuppid.