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Need some nano plot input. I need more online things people can do that big or stereotypical that can blow up in your face. I have:
Blogs (with data mining)
Forums (with flame wars)
IM: With internet romance turning to creepy stalker
Chatrooms: not sure what I will do here
Myspace? friendster?: no plan here yet
Online games: With the aliens that want to hire him and the others that want to kill him for winning.
Online gambling: With fake credit cards, a big win, and mob hitmen coming for him.
Ebay: With that thing that the wizard guild wants back
E-commerce websites: With the fake kungfu scroll he posted online (for paying members) that is a real scroll of lost arts.
And of course...
The scam email that turns out to be real and gets him into an international murder mystery subplot.

My current idea for the big twist ending is that he makes all the craziness work against each other, solves everything, And then swears off the internet completely....

Then the aliens send him a thank-you present of a holo-terminal to the galactic hypernet.

I have a story start that you can swipe if'n you want:

Type-A career woman stops in to her favorite shoe store to buy the must-have-or-die shoe. They're out of her size. She goes ballistic. At home, she finds an online retailer that carries them. While she's clicking around to place her order the website gets hacked. The hacker is particularly juvenile in his comments on the page. So she starts cyber-stalking him and finds a forum where he hangs out. She calms down enough to have enough presence of mind to use a library's computer to exact her revenge. She writes out this rant about what a loser the hacker is, how they should get a real job, blah blah blah. She signs her rant "A Citizen" and feels better about the whole deal.

Until work the next day....

when she is called into the conference room by her boss to meet with a bunch of FBI agents who are tracking the notorious hacker "A.Citizen". He's wanted on a multitude of charges that I haven't made up yet.

Yowsers! Well, she's no hacker and the FBI are convinced she's not the one (but not after putting the fear of God into her first). But now she's a target of A.Citizen and the FBI want her cooperation in helping them catch him. She's bait. Throw in some romantic twists (ie A.Citizen developing a genuine, adolescent crush on her), some silliness, and some drama and it might be a good nano.