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This is an older article that looks at how the internet has changed the ease of scoring in Fantasy Football, as well as how big companies are trying to capitalize on the internet Fantasy Football movement.

This website is a great reference for all kinds of internet statistics by both country and continent. Should be a very useful resource.

Florence Henderson started a new business called Floh Club to teach seniors how to use the internet.

Remake of Star Wars (A New Hope) created by fans. Each fan creates a 15 second clip (however they want) and they're put together into a movie. Interesting example of massive internet collaboration.

A short read, but interesting.

Great article about the explosion of information on the Internet

Interesting article about the latest Pew report on "Social Isolation and New Technology"

There is a section in this newsletter that talks about Internet safety which I found interesting. The section I'm referring to is called: SafetyNet Project and is on page 3.

This has interesting stuff about how income correlates to likelihood to rate and review products, pay for online content, book travel, and access online news.

This article talks about the scams that are happening on Craigslist.com. There are many scams that happen including car scams, money wiring fraud, and online rental scam. It also mentions some suggestions on how to avoid these scams.

Cyberterrorism's effects on our way of life

"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished"

Here is Answer.com information on E-commerce.

Another good article about Internet sales taxes - arguments from both sides.