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by American Way Staff

Help Them Help You
www.complaints.com
How many customers are “delighted” with customer service? Not many, from the looks of Complaints.com, a site that features rants, diatribes, and laments from the piqued and the chafed. Can’t get no satisfaction? Your complaint gets sent straight to the offending company and posted in a hall of shame.

Do U rED Me?
www.transl8it.com
If the last spelling trick you learned was “I before E except after C,” you’re definitely not a member of Generation Txt. “Texters” are tapping out SMS messages by the billions on tiny cell-phone keypads in an evolving patois that is Greek to the rest of us. Learn the lingo at the Transl8it SMS-lingo translation engine. It’s simpl 2 uz! Just typ in your SMS txtN lingo & let transL8it! Cvert it 2 pln eng. o plug n pln eng 2 get d SMS transl8n. kewl!

You Are Where You Live
www.cluster2.claritas.com/YAWYL
Want to know about your neighborhood? Enter a zip code, and you’ll get its psychographics: Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, is home to the “sophisticated town house couples” of the “Money & Brains” cluster. In the Hollywood Hills, “Young Literati” take vitamins, use discount brokers, and watch Bravo. What was once a tool used by marketers is now an instant evaluation of your lifestyle.


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