Every so often an idea comes along that has the potential to change the game. When it does, you find yourself saying - "Sheesh, of course that was going to happen. Why didn't I predict it?" Well, I didn't predict this happening, but here it is, happening anyway.

In short, Alexa, an Amazon-owned search company started by Bruce Gilliat and Brewster Kahle (and the spider that fuels the Internet Archive), is going to offer its index up to anyone who wants it (details are not up yet, but soon). Alexa has about 5 billion documents in its index - about 100 terabytes of data. It's best known for its toolbar-based traffic and site stats, which are much debated and, regardless, much used across the web.

OK, step back, and think about that. Anyone can use Alexa's index, to build anything. But wait, there's more. Much more.

Anyone can also use Alexa's servers and processing power to mine its index to discover things - perhaps, to outsource the crawl needed to create a vertical search engine, for example. Or maybe to build new kinds of search engines entirely, or ...well, whatever creative folks can dream up. And then, anyone can run that new service on Alexa's (er...Amazon's) platform, should they wish.

It's all done via web services. It's all integrated with Amazon's fabled web services platform. And there's no licensing fees. Just "consumption fees" which, at my first glance, seem pretty reasonable. ("Consumption" meaning consuming processor cycles, or storage, or bandwidth).

Well, this articles is about hoax and scams we receive from close friends, family or spams. First of all we will define what is this about. A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. Generally there is some material object involved, which is actually a forgery. Unlike a fraud or con (which usually has an audience of one or a few), which are made for illicit financial or material gain, a hoax is often perpetrated as a practical joke. A practical joke that make us loose time reading it.

First question you make yourself while reading these practical jokes or hoaxes, is this message for real? Uhmm I just doubt it. We must learn to be skeptical, and think carefully before spreading a message to new users, friends or family. There are some simple things you can do to avoid being a carrier for Junk-mail Viruses chains:

• DON`T SEND IT unless either you KNOW the message is true.
• ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE ORIGINATOR before forwarding it!
• If the message tells you to do something, especially if that something involves changing in your account or sending a file or message over the network, CHECK WITH SOMEONE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAT YOU CAN TRUST.
• If you see or get something that really makes you angry, remember YOU CAN'T BE SURE WHO SENT IT!!
• Chain e-mail and Pyramid posts on Usenet are a scam, and most often, they are a crime.
• Verify sites like Hoaxbusters.com, Internet Fraud Complaint Center (list of websites in complete article)
  
• Finally, note that when April 1st comes up, the Net will be awash in phony messages, forged return addresses, pranks, and general amusing nonsense.

If you had $1000 to invest.... In 2001 if you had bought $1,000.00 of One-Tel stock, it would now be worth about $9.00 to you as an unsecured creditor, if you are lucky.

In 2002 if you had bought HIH stock, you would have about $6.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
In 2003 if you had gone overseas and bought ENRON you would have less than $5.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of Beer only one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminium recycling price, you would have $24.00.

Based on the above, the best investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

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Hello readers after not publishing a single news in few months now, I finally got the time for writing something interesting and exciting I've been working on for a while now. This is Foreign Exchange or Forex market or just FX investments as Forex Managed Accounts.

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Foreign Exchange - (Forex, FX) - the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. Forex is short for foreign exchange. Source www.alterforex.com


This is how it works…
A professional money manager switches currencies in investor's portfolio, he buys one currency and simultaneously sells another currency. Conservative FOREX investments may use only five major currencies: US dollar, Euro - the single currency of European countries, Japanese yen, British pound, and Swiss franc. The investment philosophy is based on shifts in global economies - national GDPs growth, interest rates, consumer and business sentiments. And the technical analysis of currency exchange rates is applied also; which is the analysis of past historic movements to help predict future movements. A trader is just looking for the repetition of past occurrences.

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Both model-based systems and subjective judgment are used to make trading decisions. Returns can be 4% to 7% each month or 20% to 40% annually depending of the instrument chosen and other variables. Visit AlterForex for more information...

Why the FOREX market is the perfect place for investments?
1. FOREX is smooth, liquid, voluminous global world-wide market
2. FOREX is the cheapest market for participants with narrow trading spreads - 3 pips majors pairs 
3. FOREX is the fair market without insiders because is global

Three myths about the FOREX market
Myth 1. FOREX investments are very risky
Myth 2. There is no passive strategy for investors on the FOREX market
Myth 3. The FOREX market is not covered by analysts
Three known facts about the FOREX market
1. Currencies are less volatile than stocks
2. Including FOREX investments in your asset allocation will decrease the risk of your portfolio
3. You can achieve any conservatism on your FOREX investments by simply choosing your leverage from 1 to 10 or more but this is usually a desicion of the money manager

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1. What is FOREX ? that I already answered this quetion
2. Are FOREX investments risky ?
3. What kind of returns does the FOREX market provide ?
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