The technologically savvy Obama campaign was taken by surprise upon their move into the White House. For a staff in charge of the launching perhaps the most technologically-advanced presidential campaign in history, the lack of technology in the White House caught them by quite a surprise.

Used to the comfort of 21st century technologies like iPhones, email and broadband internet, the staff was less than pleased to find the White House stuck in the technological dark ages with old computer software, disconnected phone lines, and security regulations prohibiting email, IM, and even Facebook.

Posting in YouTube has moved from being a hobby of tech savvy youth to a good source of income amid troubled times.

The financial reward of posting in the video portal is the result of YouTube's invitation for members a year ago to become partners by adding advertising to their videos for them to earn on the side.

A woman from Sweet Home, Oregon is mired in debt after losing nearly $400,000 to Internet con men in a scheme called the Nigerian scam.

Janella Spears, a nursing administrator in Lebanon and church volunteer, took the bait of the e-mail scammers in August 2005 by wiring them $100 on the promise she will get $20.5 million for helping straighten out the finances of a fake relative.

A website has been helping people with sexually-transmitted diseases conveniently and anonymously notify by e-mail sexual partners whom they may have inadvertently infected.

InSpot has been used by some 30,000 people since it was launched in San Francisco in 2004 making it an innovative and effective communication channel among sex partners, according to a report published in the October issue of PLoS Medicine.

With the worsening economy everything is for sale on Craigslist, including one kidney from someone self-described as a healthy, healthy, broke and about to be homeless 35-year-old.

Selling a kidney is unquestionably illegal but its hard to tell if the ad is serious or a prank.