New trends:
* The rise in instant messaging (Yahoo and MSN Messenger)
* The proliferation of blogs

The nuisances:
* Spam Mail
Over the entire year, one in 12 e-mails was unsolicited; by November, that ratio had jumped to one in three, which led MessageLabs to predict that spam would overtake regular e-mail in volume in 2003.

The new business:
Some of the most thriving businesses are on-line dating services, provided by such sites as Match.com, Yahoo Personals, and the Canadian-owned Lavalife.com

I think you must have started posting your own blog.
The http://oksoft.antville.org is no doubt the best blogging tool.
But I found a few other blogging websites to be useful.
If in case I can't use antville for some reason, I will use the following sites.

http://oksoft.crimsonblog.com/
1. Very clear design.
2. Easy to use.

http://shantanuo.easyjournal.com/
1. Good Design.
2. Ability to send a message to the writer, through the website.

http://oksoft.blogspot.com/
1. You have register with http://www.blogger.com
2. One of the widely used website.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/shantanuo/
1. Useful if your friends too want to participate
2. Difficult to use and learn.

http://shantanuo.pitas.com/
1. Useful for those who write once a week!
2. Easy to backup!

http://www.danchan.com/weblog/shantanuo
1. easy to use.

http://shantanuo.rediffblogs.com/
1. A lot of functions.

http://oksoft.journalspace.com/
1. Useful for community and serious users.

http://www.upsaid.com/shantanuo/
1. Easy to use and community features supported.

http://oksoft.blog-city.com/
1. Personal blogs
2. Allow you to host blogs using your own domain name

http://www.blogstudio.com/shantanuo/index.html
1. simple yet powerful blog