Do you know what your teenagers are doing online these days? Move over MySpace. PICZO is the latest online social networking rage for teens. Check it out from PICZO's website:

Piczo has created a space that gives teens around the world the freedom and tools to express themselves and connect with friends in a safer social networking environment.

Piczo allows its users to create fully customizable personal websites that do not require any understanding of html code. Users share their life stories with friends by designing their sites with multiple pages featuring photos, graphics, guest books, comment boards, music, and more. Each site can be linked to other friends' sites and users can interact with them and their friends, and meet new people online.

Since its launch less than two years ago, Piczo has grown to over 10 million monthly unique visitors and 2.5 billion monthly page views solely through the viral efforts of its loyal members. Rave reviews from these users claim that Piczo is unmatched in the control it offers over their sites, ease-of-use, and 'walled-garden' approach with no searching for users.

PICZO is now the second most popular teen social network site. Parents and future investors, keep your eyes out for big things from this startup. PICZO, a San Francisco based company, backed by venture firms Sierra Ventures and Catamount Ventures, is led by ex-AOL executive Jeremy Verba.

Pierre Cutler
Sacramento Executive