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‘Togetherville’ founder calls growth of kids’ networking site ‘phenomenal’

June 28, 2010 /

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Like a lot of kids born in the 21st century, including mine, 8-year-old Zoraver Dhillon loves playing games on the Internet. A couple of months ago, after setting a personal best in Super Crazy Turbo Taxi 4 by 1,000 points, he quickly checked to see if he’d moved up in the rankings.

Zoraver was stunned to discover he’d fallen from fourth place to 69th. But his father, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was thrilled.

Mandeep Dhillon was so thrilled, in fact, that he and Zoraver got on Skype for a video chat with software engineers working late at Togetherville http://www.togetherville.com , a startup in Palo Alto. Zoraver’s plummet was validation that Togetherville, a social networking site that Dhillon designed for grade-schoolers and their parents, was off the starting line like Speed Racer. Suddenly Zoraver was competing against a lot of Turbo Taxi drivers.

By Scott Duke Harris

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