Fairfax Media's stuff.co.nz is the big winner in this year's People's Choice NetGuide Web Awards, being named site of the year, best media site and best home page. TradeMe was named best trading site and best real estate site in the awards, which attracted a record 70,000 votes from internet users.

By WOULFE, Catherine Chatrooms and social networking sites have destroyed our sense of privacy. Catherine Woulfe goes online to investigate. ------------ -------- EUGENE RAYNER, this is your life. You're an 17-year-old Auckland Grammar student from the well-to- do suburb of Mt Eden.

By Anonymous It's called 'feedback' - an Internet phenomenon started by the likes of TradeMe - and it means the average Kiwi can find their name 'turned to mud' if their customer service is not up to scratch. The same applies to the average business.

By CHURCHOUSE, Nick A ROOMFUL of billionaires, geniuses and celebrities gets you thinking, two of New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs say.

By HARTEVELT, John Internet phishing -- the practice of stealing passwords and bank details by online deception -- grew by 533 per cent in the retail sector during 2007, a new survey shows.