The company has a noble aim; to provide safe social networking with parental guidance, and from what I can tell they are doing a great job at keeping it safe.
My daughter (8) has an Imbee account and she loves it. Her blog posts are never longer than 3-4 lines, but uploading pics found on our harddrive keeps her occupied. And, we do get at least one post a day (better than I can say for some of you sorry bloggers).
While she could have signed up on her on, we had to go through a credit-card based verification to open her account up to the social side of things. And still, that social side only allows her to connect with friends who have her access code. Imbee won major cool points when she was able to print 'business cards' with her access code and decorate it (lots of templates) to hand out to friends at school. Her friends can, if their parents verify their account, enter in her code to connect to her blog/chat/commments, etc.
I had a chance to do a podcast interview with Tim Donovan, Founder and VP of Marketing and Public Relations, last week which was accidentally not recorded (user error-oops). However, Tim was kind enough to interview again and the result is this 10-minute-ish podcast interview on the kid-safe social network, Imbee.
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