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AOL Relaunches KOL with New Content Partnerships with National Geographic Kids and Girlsense.


Leading Kids Site Offers New Customizable Pages with Email and More Than 100 Games

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  today announced the relaunch of their popular kid's site KOL KOL Kings of Leon (UK band)
KoL Kingdom of Loathing (online game)
KOL Key Opinion Leaders
KOL Key Opinion Leader
KOL Kiss on Lips
KOL Key Objects Library
KOL Knights of Labor
KOL Key-Oriented List
 (http://kol.com) featuring new content partnerships with National Geographic Kids National Geographic Kids is an award-winning children's magazine published by the National Geographic Society. [1]

Its first issue was printed in September of 1975 under the original title: National Geographic World
 and Girlsense. In addition, the newly retooled site will offer customizable pages, personalized email and more than 100 games.

"We are relaunching KOL with new and enriched content from new partners who speak directly to our audience," said Marty Moe, Senior Vice President of Programming, KOL. "We continue to expand the space for our users in an empowering and safe way."

The new content partnership with National Geographic Kids (http://kids.nationalgeographic.com) will help power the KOL Pets & Animals channel where users can watch animal videos and play interactive animal games including National Geographic Kids' dog pal "Zipper zipper

Device for binding the edges of an opening, as on a garment or a bag. A zipper consists of two strips of material with metal or plastic teeth along the edges, and a sliding piece that interlocks the teeth when moved in one direction and separates them again when moved
" or National Geographic "Crittercam" games. Additionally, users can find how-to instructions for offline activities and crafts.

Girlsense (http://www.girlsense.com) will now power KOL's newly designed Style Center, enabling users to design clothes and create original fashion lines, open and design personalized e-boutiques to display and "sell" fashions, create original make-up looks and styles and create accessories and mix-your-own nail polish.

In addition to a variety of skin choices to personalize their KOL pages, users can create their own KOL email address See Internet address.  and store their favorite Web sites. KOL offers more than 100 online, kid-friendly games, music videos and artist information, movie and TV features, sports photos as well as celebrity style galleries and online cartoons - all targeted at kids ages 2-12.

About AOL

AOL[R] is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary

A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company.
 of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.

About National Geographic Kids

The National Geographic Kids Web site is the latest addition to National Geographic's expanding offerings for children. Kids.nationalgeographic.com is produced by National Geographic Digital Media (NGDM), the multimedia arm of National Geographic, one of the largest educational and scientific nonprofit organizations in the world.

About Girlsense

StarNet Interactive creates and produces GirlSense.com, featuring fun fashion and dress-up games and creative activities that provide on-line experiences that are safe, unique, innovative and fun.
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