Circle of Friends, Communities & Social Networking

• 5 ways to keep in touch with family and friends online: www.microsoft.com/athome/intouch/keepintouchonline.mspx
• 6 Billion Channel Universe: blogs.msdn.com/maamktg/
• 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web: www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
• 17 Ways to use Twitter: www.doshdosh.com/ways-you-can-use-twitter/
• 52 Projects: www.52projects.com/52_projects/
• A non-technical explanation of RSS: www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/129
• Alfred Thompson the Cyberspace People Watcher: act2.spaces.live.com
• An Introvert becomes Social: blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/
• Are You an A-List Bloglebrity?: www.kineda.com
• Back Fence: www.backfence.com
• Breaking the Social Contract: My Data is not Your Data: www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/
• Chat Abbreviations: searchwebmanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/
• Chat Acronyms: ninemsn.com.au/acronyms.msnw
• Chat Definitions: www.computerhope.com/jargon/chat.htm
• Common Emoticons & Acronyms: www.pb.org/emoticon.html
• Communities are built with links: techtalkblogs.com/blog/
• Community 2.0: infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/04/07/community-20
• Create Your Own Online Community: www.microsoft.com/athome/intouch/onlinecommunity.mspx
• Create your own Valentine's Card: www.microsoft.com/silverlight/sharethelove/
• Dave's Microsoft Communities Stuff: davemscom.spaces.live.com
• Facebook: www.facebook.com
• Facebook Right, Scoble Wrong - Social Network Interoperability: carnage4life.spaces.live.com
• Feevy - Display content from other blogs at your website: www.feevy.com
• Friends, no friends, Facebook and Twitter: blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/
• Get your Windows Live ID: get.live.com/getlive/overview
• Got a contact who can answer your every question?: spaces.msn.com/members/webdotwiz/
• Helping your kids use social networking Web sites safely: www.microsoft.com/protect/family/
• How Twitter makes it real: news.bbc.co.uk
• Join the Online Community with Windows Live Services: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/learnmore/
• Kids, blogs and too much information: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7668788/
• Library of Letters: www.rivertrout.com
• MetaFilter: www.metafilter.com
• Microsoft Social Computing Group: research.microsoft.com/scg/
• Microsoft.com Tagspace: beta.communities.microsoft.com/tagspace/
• mySociety: www.mysociety.org
• Online Communities Map: xkcd.com:80/c256.html
• Open Diary: www.opendiary.com
• Rushworth Community House: www.rushcomhouse.org
• Second Life - How to get started: on10.net/blogs/tina/
• Share Your OPML: share.opml.org
• Share Your Profile: http://profiles.msn.com
• SLAM - Social, Location, Annotation, Mobile: www.msslam.com
• Smilies & Emoticons: www.fingertek.com/smilies.htm
• Social Bookmarking Sites: www.listible.com/list/social-bookmarking-sites
• Social Computing Group: research.microsoft.com/scg/
• Social Networking Websites and Teens - An Overview: www.pewinternet.org
• Soulful Living: www.soulfulliving.com
• Spaces Hall of Fame: spaces-hall-of-fame.spaces.live.com
• Summize - Realtime Twitter Search: twitter.summize.com
• Support Groups: www.support-group.com
• Talk safely! Navigate Chat Rooms with Caution: www.microsoft.com/athome/intouch/safechatting.mspx
• The Facebook Effect - Google Reader Violates User's Privacy: www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/
• The Hive Mind - Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging: infotangle.blogsome.com
• Tumblr - Share Your Blogs: www.tumblr.com
• Twhat? Why use Twitter: blogs.msdn.com/martharotter/
• Twisney = Disney + Live Maps + Twitter: www.twisney.com
• Twitter - A Guide for Beginners: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
• Twitter for those who still don't get it: blogs.msdn.com/rog42/
• Twitter in Plain English: www.youtube.com
• Unlimited Potential Program: www.microsoftunlimitedpotential.com.au/
• Unofficial Smiley Dictionary: www.charm.net/~kmarsh/smiley.html
• Upcoming.org: upcoming.org
• Why and How to use Twitter: www.disruptiveconversations.com
• WittyTwitter: code.google.com/p/wittytwitter/
• Youth Noise: www.youthnoise.com

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Enjoyable Shopping

• ATM System Called Unsafe: redtape.msnbc.com/2006/11/researchers_who.html
• Australian Consumers' Association: www.choice.com.au
• Australian Mobile Phone Magazine: www.imobile.com.au
• Better Business Bureau: www.bbbonline.org
• BBBOnline Consumer Tips: www.bbbonline.org/consumer/
• Bringing it to Life - Connected Experiences for Consumers: www.microsoft.com/presspass/consumer/summer2007.mspx
• Broadband.org: www.broadband.org.au
• Business Directory: www.aussie.com.au
• Car Info: carinfo.com
• Choice Pricewatch: www.choicepricewatch.com.au
• Compare Prices: http://compare.net
• Comparing PDAs: www.computingcentral.com/Electronics/
• Companies with Truste Seal: www.truste.com/users/users_lookup.html
• Computers: www.computers.com
• Consumer Directory: www.treasury.gov.au/consumer/
• Consumer Search: www.consumersearch.com
• Digital Consumer: digitalconsumer.org
• Electronics News (MSN): www.computingcentral.com/Electronics/
• EU to Tax Internet Sales: www.msnbc.com/news/749006.asp
• Find Shops: www.storerunner.com
• Fraud Info Centre: www.fraud.org
• Home Buyers Advice: www.homeinspect.org
• How Infocard prevents phishing, in practice: blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/
• How to shop online more safely: www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/
• How to tell genuine Microsoft products: www.microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/
• iLikeTotallyLoveIt.com: www.iliketotallyloveit.com
• Microsoft Store: emea.microsoftstore.com/uk/
• My first sale on eBay (aka Do you ship to Nigeria?): blogs.technet.com/jeffsigman/
• Oftel (U.K.): www.oftel.gov.uk
• Petitions: www.petitiononline.com
• Phone Company Complaints: www.phonecompanycomplaints.com
• Price Point: www.pricepoint.com.au
• Price Search: www.bottomdollar.com
• Product Recalls: www.cpsc.gov
• Questions Answered: www.msnbc.com/news/233222.asp
• Recalls.gov (U.S.): www.recalls.gov
• Safershopper: www.safershopper.com
• Shop Online More Safely: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/articles/shopping.mspx
• Shopping Online: www.dcita.gov.au/shoponline/
• Shopping Tips: www.msnbc.com/news/478642.asp
• Social Shopping: blogs.msdn.com/industry_social/
• STORES Magazine - Are you a Facebook Fan?: www.stores.org
• Superfuture Supercities - Shopping Reviews: www.superfuture.com/city/home/
• Telstra Country Wide: telstra.com/countrywide/
• They're Beautiful Virtual Flower Shop: www.theyrebeautiful.com
• T.I.O.: www.tio.com.au
• T.I.S.S.C.: www.tissc.com.au
• Victorian Consumer Affairs: www.consumer.vic.gov.au
• Victorian Consumers Affairs - Internet Shopping: Internet Shopping
• Web Buying Guide: www.webbuyingguide.com

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Net Services

• AjaxTrans Translator: ajax.parish.ath.cx/translator/
• Australian Postcodes: www.auspost.com.au/postcodes/
• Box.net - Free Online Storage: www.box.net
• BubbleShare: www.bubbleshare.com
• CuePrompter.com - Online Teleprompter: www.cueprompter.com
• del.icio.us: del.icio.us
• Free Translation (Paralink): translation2.paralink.com
• Free Windows Live Mail (formerly Hotmail): mail.live.com
• Hotmail: www.hotmail.com
• iRows Spreadsheet: www.irows.com
• List of Web 2.0 Lists: www.readwriteweb.com/archives/list_of_web_20.php
• Mezzofanti Free Translations: www.mezzofanti.org/translation/
• MSN Messenger: messenger.msn.com
• MSN Mobile: mobile.msn.com
• Online calendar services taking off (1998): news.com.com/2100-1023-219412.html?legacy=cnet
• Online calendar services taking off (2006): news.com.com
• Onfolio - New Addition to the Windows Live Toolbar: blogs.msdn.com/adrianvinca/
• Onfolio for Windows Live Toolbar: www.onfolio.com
• Phone Directories: www.teldir.com
• Phone Directory - UK: www.bt.com/directory-enquiries/
• Topica Newsletters: www.topica.com
• Translate Anything: world.altavista.com
• Typing Test: www.powertyping.com/typing_test/
• Typing Tutor: www.typingmaster.com/itutor/
• Units Conversion: www.onlineconversion.com
• Weather.com: www.weather.com
• Weather on Demand: www.earthwatch.com
• Windows Live Services: ideas.live.com
• WorldLingo Translator: www.worldlingo.com
• Writely: www.writely.com
• YouTube - Broadcast Yourself: www.youtube.com
• Zoho Writer - Online Wordprocessor: www.zohowriter.com

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Privacy

• 8 Quick Thoughts on Email Politeness: robdolin.spaces.live.com/Blog/
• AdSubtract: www.adsubtract.com
• Ad & Privacy Filter: www.adfilter.com
• Alarm Over Pharming Attacks: reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5670780-1.html
• Anti-EULA (End User Licence Agreement): www.boingboing.net
• Anti-marketing counter-script: www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
• Anti-Phishing Working Group: www.antiphishing.org
• Australian Law Reform Commission - Inquiry into the Privacy Act: www.privacy.gov.au/act/alrc/
• Australian Privacy: www.privacy.com.au
• Biometrics - Who's Watching You?: www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/biometrics.php
• Break the Chain: www.breakthechain.org
• Choosing Passwords: blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/
• Cloud Computing and Identity (Important reading): blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/
• Computer Security: www.antionline.com
• Consumer Advice - How to Avoid Phishing Scams: www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html
• CyberSpace Law Centre: cyber.lp.findlaw.com/privacy/
• Easy cheque fraud technique draws scrutiny: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7914159/
• Echelon: www.shire.net/big.brother/echelon.htm
• Eliminating TopText: www.funs.co.uk/virus/
• End to End Trustworthy Computing (PDF document): download.microsoft.com
• Equal Opportunity: www.hreoc.gov.au
• Fight Identity Theft : www.fightidentitytheft.com/
• Filters Fail to Block...: www.msnbc.com/news/531004.asp
• Five Ways to Protect Privacy: www.msnbc.com/news/496359.asp
• F.I.P.R.: www.fipr.org
• Forgot what you searched for? Google didn’t: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10952497/
• Get Safe Online: www.getsafeonline.org
• Google Desktop Raises New Privacy Issues: blog.searchenginewatch.com
• Google Desktop shares files across computers: www.lifehacker.com
• Halt Online Harassment: www.haltabuse.org
• Help prevent identity theft from phishing scams: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishingemail.mspx
• High Encryption for IE: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/
• Hoax Busters: hoaxbusters.ciac.org
• How Companies Track You: www.privacy.net/track/
• How To Keep Your Search History Private: www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004868.php
• Internet and Phishing Scamsters: www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/455
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• Internet Explorer 8 - Privacy by Choice: blogs.msdn.com/augovtaffairs/
• Internet Privacy Suite: www.freedom.net
• Internet Safety Education - Think You Know: www.thinkuknow.com.au
• Internet Storm Center (ISC): isc.sans.org
• i-See: www.appliedautonomy.com/isee/
• IT & Internet Privacy Issues: www.privacy.gov.au/issues/index.html
• Junk Busters: www.junkbusters.com
• Laws of Identity: www.identityblog.com
• Malware moves up, goes commercial: arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060225-6264.html
• Microsoft & Privacy: www.microsoft.com/privacy/
• Microsoft Online Privacy Notice Highlights: privacy.microsoft.com
• Microsoft works with law enforcement worldwide to make the Internet safer: blogs.msdn.com/securitytipstalk/
• NACAB (U.K.): www.nacab.org.uk
• National Do Not Call Registry (U.S.): www.donotcall.gov
• Net Dumping: www.rookiescomputers.com
• New Surveillance Society: www.msnbc.com/news/surveillance_front.asp
• NYC Surveillance Cameras: www.mediaeater.com/cameras/
• Office of Fair Trading (U.K.): www.oft.gov.uk
• Passport & eWallet: www.passport.com
• Phishing Scams - 5 Ways to Protect Your Identity: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishing.mspx
• Pretty Good Privacy: www.pgpi.org
• Privacy - Party Over for Web Spies: visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/
• Privacy - Redefinition in the digital age: blogs.msdn.com/augovtaffairs/
• Privacy Amendment Act 2000: www.law.gov.au/privacy/
• Privacy Beyond Blocking Cookies - Bringing Awareness to Third-Party Content: blogs.msdn.com/ie/
• Privacy International: www.privacyinternational.org
• Privacy on the 'Net: www.tamos.com/privacy/
• Privacy Rights Clearing House: www.privacy.org
• Privacy & Security Fundamentals: www.microsoft.com/privacy/safeinternet/
• Protect personal information: www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/personal/
• Protecting Your Privacy: www.privacy.gov.au/issues/p7_1.html
• Reality Check - Laws of Identity: blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/
• Sabotage! Coping With The Joe Job: www.sitepoint.com/article/sabotage-coping-joe-job/
• Scumware: www.htmlgoodies.com/letters/147.html
• Scumware: www.scumware.com
• Social Engineering - What is it? (Video): blogs.msdn.com/the_hardman/
• Software or Spyware?: www.msnbc.com/news/529439.asp
• Spam Combat: combat.uxn.com
• Spam Cop: www.spamcop.net
• Spam - How to Eliminate: www.mindworkshop/alchemy/nospam.html
• Spyware Watch (U.K.): www.spyware.co.uk
• Stop Badware: stopbadware.org
• Stop Spam eMail: www.scambusters.com
• Stopping Scumware: www.associateprograms.com
• System Admin & Security: www.sans.org
• Talking Privacy: www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/current/privacy/talk/
• The Privacy Foundation: www.privacyfoundation.org
• The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature I've Seen Online: www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/
• Trading Standards (U.K.): www.tradingstandards.gov.uk
• Voice of the Public: www.voiceofthepublic.com
• What is social engineering?: www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/
• What to do if you're a victim of fraud: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/privacy/fraudvictim.mspx
• What to do if you've responded to a phishing scam: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/phishingrespond.mspx
• Windows CardSpace Introduction: msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480189.aspx
• Windows CardSpace Simple Demo Walkthrough (Video): channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=291878
• Wired Safety: www.wiredsafety.org

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