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Blame the scam!

If you have never heard of people trying to scam users on the Internet, you're are lucky!

This has been very widespread since a while and here at Crickee we are very careful about it.

We've recently heard of a few people trying to scam Crickee users. As far as we are concerned, we took some safety measures to avoid it to happen. But nothing can be done without you and your attention, as the main messages are private.

So here a few tips to identify a scammer and what to do:

• No one on Crickee should ask to marry you and before that to send him/her tickets, money or gifts.
  If so, be very careful, it might not be the real person you think you are talking to.

• No one on Crickee should ask you for money.
  If so, be very careful! Especially if it comes from someone you have never met in real life, and especially if it is asked from people living in another country!
  Usually, the scammers will talk to you for a while and then will tell you a sad story about why and how they need money.
• Be careful, scammers will write as they were women or as they were men, but whatever when they are scammers, they are not the real person they claim to be and their only aim is to scam you!
  Remember, it's really cool and generous to help friends in need when you can, but until you've met them in person, you should not do it!

If you encounter any of these people on Crickee, please let us know!
Click on the "Report abuse" bottom to notify us of any scammers.

Thanks for helping us to keep Crickee fun, easy and real!

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What's up on the web? This week Crickee explores again Mobuzz TV.

Never heard about it? If you prefer the internet to network news, if you go online to check on the latest trends and information, if you are a fan of blogs and look for a lighthearted, even irreverent take on current events, then, as Crickee, you may appreciate MobuzzTV!

Disclosure: Do you know why it is named Mobuzz? The Mob in Mobuzz ... is specially tailored to your mobile phone!  It displays a bite size 3-minute programs, and content specially filmed for a small screen, and fresh daily content for the new generation of mobile users.

Do you want an exemple? Here is the Daily Buzz of Monday, November 12, 2007 with Olivia.

This week: llegal Facebook Ads; Google Weather; YouTube Introduce Multi-file Upload; England With Dad, Not France With Mum; Robo-Moth;Gizmoz Goes Social

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There's always something new in the "blogosphere"! Opportunately, some great services keep us fully updated: this week, some breaking news about Google with

If you want to add an updated Wikio content in real time on your blog, just click on Google and explore the tags you are interested in.

News at a glance: Crickee keeps an eye on Wikio

There's always something new in the "blogosphere"! Opportunately, some great services keep us fully updated: this week, some breaking news about Blogs from

If you want to add an updated Wikio content in real time on your blog, just click on Blogs and explore the tags you are interested in.

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What's up on the web? This week Crickee has explored Techmeme, a software agent to surface blogs you might have never heard of or a news site you don't have time to scan. Coverage is driven in real time by a mix of industry insiders, passionate independents, and established journalists. Here is a Crickee selection of five news of the week.

• Predictions for 2008
  At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, FL earlier this month, Gartner analysts identified the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008.
  via Socialtext
• Free 411: Putting Google and Microsoft to the Test
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  via PC World
• The season of social network platforms
  via ZDNet
• The New Era of Semantic Apps
  I'm here at the Semantic Edge panel at the Summit, moderated by Tim O'Reilly and featuring W. Daniel Hillis (Co-Chairman and CTO, Applied Minds), Barney Pell (Founder and CEO of Powerset), Nova Spivack (Twine - see our review here). The panel starts with demos from each of the three speakers.
  via Read Write Web
• The Web is the Platform
  The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago.
  via TechCrunch

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This week, some breaking news about Web 2.0 from a personalised page of news, including a news search engine that searches media sites, blogs and member publications.

                                                                                     

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This week Crickee has discovered intruders.tv, a global network of video blogs covering the web 2.0 and technology ecosystem.

What's up on the web? Jason Calacanis moderates discussion with Jay Adelson (Digg), David Sacks (Geni), Roelof Botha (Sequoia), Sumant Mandel (Clearstone), George Zachery (CRV), Hank Barry (Howard Rice), and Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC) during the Keynote recorded at the TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco last September 18th.

News at a Glance: Crickee explores the web

What's up on the web? This week Crickee explores Mobuzz TV.

Never heard about it? If you prefer the internet to network news, if you go online to check on the latest trends and information, if you are a fan of blogs and look for a lighthearted, even irreverent take on current events, then, as Crickee, you may appreciate MobuzzTV!

Disclosure: Do you know why it is named Mobuzz? The Mob in Mobuzz ... is specially tailored to your mobile phone!  It displays a bite size 3-minute programs, and content specially filmed for a small screen, and fresh daily content for the new generation of mobile users.

Do you want an exemple? Here is the Daily Buzz of Monday, September 24, 2007 with Olivia.

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• Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash
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  via TechCrunch
• anySIM is here: open source GUI iPhone unlock app
  Today is the day! We just fixed up our issues with the toolchain and are pround to announce the GUI version as the latest greatest opensource tool.
  via Hacint0sh
• Google prepping offline Gmail client?
  It’s certainly not the strangest rumor we’ve heard. Word on the street is that Google is preparing an offline Gmail client based on their popular Google Gears infrastructure.
  via The Boy Genius Report
• First Look at Microsoft’s Free Web Analytics Tool ‘Gatineau’ (With Slides)
  I wasn’t expecting any notable announcements at Web Analytics Day, an annual industry conference organized by Brussels-based web analytics agency OX2, but when Ian Thomas (Director at Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions) took the stage for a 15-minute slot as sponsor of the event, he surprised everyone with an extensive introduction to Microsoft’s upcoming free web analytics tool (codenamed Gatineau), along with some screenshots.
  via BlogNation
• Announcing FanCast mobile, chat, Twitter and Columbia Records
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  via SplashCast