It's business as usual for the monkey-spankers on Chatroulette.

This is what happens when one has no specific business plan in mind: direction is lost.

Ultra popular Internet destination, Chatroulette.com was down for more than a week, with the cryptic message displayed on its page:

The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating. Renewed and updated version of the website will be launched today.

In Ruski code-speak this meant that hacking the code to suit a business model had failed miserably. The downtime of more than a week cost Chatroulette a lot of its traffic; the newly launched interface lacks the responsiveness of the old one.

Unfortunately for its 17 year old Russian creator, Chatroulette has never been anything other than an endless masturbatorium for Internet flashers and exhibitionists. Once seen as an opportunity to randomly connect complete strangers around the world, Chatroulette gained notoriety from the endless display of genitalia by its patrons.

The Chatroulette web site, as it appeared Monday, is apparently far from being the final product of the scheduled upgrade. No note or other message about the changes appears on the site.

OMG my eyes! Just been on Chatroulette!

It’s game over – at least for now – for Chatroulette perverts that expose themselves on popular video chat platform, Chatroulette.com – thousands of offending IPs have been blocked by the system administrator.

Once considered as the next platform for audiovisual conversations between random individuals, Chatroulette has turned into a virtual masturbatorium for flashers and perverts.

Chatroulette announced that they will be going to take steps against the worst offenders by threatening people who exposed themselves to minors with the police.

The 18 year old Russian founder, Andrey Ternovskiy announced that his company has started to collect evidence and is in the process of contacting law enforcement about the issue.

“We’ve blocked thousands of IP addresses, reported offenders and service seems to be much cleaner than before. That is cool. Now give us some time to put new features in place”, said Ternovskiy.

It is unlikely that these measures will stop those that seek a supposedly anonymous medium such as Chatroulette in order to force their nudity onto unsuspected visitors. Although Chatroulette introduced channels of adult nature recently in an apparent effort to classify its visitors, more than 75% of its visitors appear to be ignoring the guidelines.

A recent security report put together by researchers at the University of Colorado, titled “Intrusions into Privacy in Video Chat Environments: Attacks and Countermeasures” [PDF link] demonstrates how Chatroulette can be utilized to deceive unsuspecting visitors and for phishing attacks.

According to Alexa, Chatroulette traffic has taken a dive in the recent months, especially during the World Cup 2010 days in South Africa.

Still Jenny from the block.

Thousands of members on a Facebook page have convinced Jennifer Lopez to cancel a performance and issue a political statement.

The Puerto Rican singer and actress was to perform at the occupied territories of Cyprus, at the inauguration of a grand hotel, where she’d also celebrate her 41st birthday.

Unfortunately, J’Lo did not seem to realize that by inviting her fans to “Northern Cyprus” for a fiesta of singing, she was giving justice to a phantom country, recognized only by Turkey.

Cyprus, divided after the July 1974 military invasion by Turkey has seen more than 200,000 refugees wander to the south part and onto Greece, never able to see their homeland again.

Famagusta, a former world-class beach resort in occupied Cyprus is frozen in time, left as it was in 1974

Varosia, on the world-famous Famagusta beach is a ghost city, left as it was 36 years ago and trapped in barbed wire and mines. With 41% of the Cypriot land occupied by Turkey, the churches, monasteries and archaeological temples have been demolished by the settlers that moved in from Anatolia.

The uproar motivated thousands of Greeks leading them to a quickly organized online protest against Jennifer Lopez; with them sided other nations such as Armenia, Russia and Serbia; even Israel, that has seen relations with Turkey reach a breaking point recently.

A few hours ago, Jennifer Lopez regained her respect and appreciation of thousands of Greek fans, after canceling her concert in the occupied Cyprus and issuing the following statement:

Jennifer Lopez would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that was associated with any form of human rights abuse. After a full review of the relevant circumstances in Cyprus, it was the decision of her advisors to withdraw from the appearance. This was a team decision that reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region.

Soon after, the news spread out across the various social media sites, echoed on Facebook and Twitter and along came the voiced appreciation of “J’Lo from the block”. If only she would plan a concert in Greece, the bliss would be complete.

$20,000,000 – Party like it’s 1999

Oh, how I remember the days before the dot com bubble burst.

The stock market was soaring. Every college dropout would launch a “start up” from his garage. Investors would throw money around. Stock IPOs. Lavish parties.

Total euphoria, coast to coast.

Then Microsoft was told to split up its operations.

The stock market crashed.

The dot com’s shut down one after another, like dominoes stacked alongside a yellow brick road; no Wizard of Oz waited at its very end.

Roll forward to 2010.

Popular online social media / city guide amalgam Foursquare announced that they secured $20 million dollars in a series B investment round. In other words, money was thrown into the corporate pit in order to sustain the viability of the operations and its 27 or so employees.

What exactly is Foursquare providing the online community with – that’s the obvious question. The not so obvious one is, how do they plan to monetize this free service? Local ads? Special offerings and deals served in a platter of Monopoly “gaming”?

The ground is still shaking, ten plus years after the big dot com crash. The likes of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare aren’t doing things any different than in 1999 – it’s the scale that differs: grander, more global but still without a realism and lacking substance.

I’d hate to see that $20,000,000 end up in thin air, or even worse, at a chapter 7 bankruptcy details. But those that don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it.

Time is on our side, yes it is.

By now you’re probably familiar with the new time-waster, among the likes of twitter, facebook, tumblr and other platforms of so-called “social interaction” online.

It’s ChatRoulette.com and it should come with adult content warning.

Perhaps the 17 year old Russian who created the web site in order to randomly pair video conferencing individuals around the world, could not have predicted it’d take off so quickly – at least, among the ever expanding community of video exhibitionists.

But even if an exhibitionist attempts to violate the visuals of a stranger, hidden behind the anonymity offered by the lack of any login credentials, the ChatRoulette culture has apparently become the elite gathering point of masturbating males.

After loading up the web page and setting up your camera to send and receive video and audio, chances are that 24 times out of 25 you will be connecting with a guy; or more accurately, with a naked, jerking off guy in half of these instances – who displays no regard as to who will be on the other end of the connection.

You’ve been warned.

So be prepared to see a lot of cock, dick and willy, all while waiting to either curiously surf into the endless stream of individuals around the globe or while searching for a woman, for whatever reason.

Women are a rarity on ChatRoulette and when they do appear, they don’t manically masturbate or show their boobs, as some would hope. Often, they are in the company of others, men or women and they have zero tolerance for bullshit.

People tend to assume a persona online, especially when they expose their faces to strangers. To cover this facial “nudity” they wear some or all of the following items: hats, caps, hoods, glasses, bandanas, ninja scarfs, masks of the opposite sex etc.

The perception seems to be that by covering your face you magically become invisible all while being fully exposed.

Some of the fine species one will meet on ChatRoulette are:

Jerk-offs that expose themselves and masturbate

People that use camera software to cartoonize themselves

Kids that somehow were left unattended

Really old people – somehow septuagenarians were told it’s cool to be on cam

Teenagers making out

People that smoke bongs, cigarettes, cigars, weed. Nasty!

Drunks with several bottles of alcohol on their desk and on the floor

Chart holders asking for “Boobs” or keeping track of how many dicks they’ve seen

We saw a fat naked guy humping a raccoon stuffed animal!

Projected pornography videos or chick cams

A rare sighting of a real woman bored to the point of showing her boobs

Exhibitionism is deep-rooted in the primate species.

There are several websites already that simply post captures of faces of people that connect on ChatRoulette – so be warned that if you use it, your face – or your other body parts – will be on public display somewhere else, permanently.

What about all these masturbating monkeys?

CockSniffer (seriously now) is an interesting mac OS X application that upon connection can track the IP and geolocation of your “partner” and post it on the ChatRoulette Cock Map web site.

Just what we needed to know.

As the sun rises and the time zone activity shifts, you will notice Asians, Middle Eastern, Turks mixing with Europeans – Germans, Brits, French and Swedish. The US East and West coasts are present along with the sleepy midwest; often “hanging out” in this dudefest that – again – contains a lot of dick that one cannot avoid seeing in this random pairing.

After spending three hours aimlessly surfing the sea of people with the F9 key as our only compass, we felt fed up with the lack of any purpose in this random gambling of faces.

At least, a roulette has only 38 numbers – unless you are in France.

In its current form, ChatRoulette appears to be an addictive time-waster that serves little purpose other than to satisfy the voyeuristic and exhibitionist needs of people around the world and to offer a glimpse into the beginning of the Internet, when things were raw and seemingly unregulated.

But how many still remember Cu-SeeMe?

Google Earth is the next destination for millions of individuals that are social-media conscious, for free

Milpitas, California – Yahoot News

Nothing can stop ultra-giant Google, as it continues to consume corporations that stand in its path. What used to be a non-evil company has grown to become  a digital empire, many times over the size of its nearest competitor in every field.

Google stores mass quantities of data, such as emails, photographs, search results, phone numbers – some say, even DNA samples from every human on earth.

In an attempt to show a more humane face, Google has launched a new service – which promises to offer free vacations to everyone on earth. In doing so, Google has destroyed Expedia; its future is now at stake due to the zero cost of ordering vacations through Google Earth!

“We are absolutely and most definitely going to offer travel services to everyone in the world, for free, through Google Earth”, said Maria Mezzanotti, project manager for Google Earth Travel International – the spinoff company that utilizes Google Earth for travelers.

“Why spend thousands of dollars on tickets, trip preparations, unnecessary stress and physical exhaustion – when you can simply select any point on the planet and spend time there, by using Google Earth?“, she added with a half-smile.

“I love Google Earth, of course I’ll book some vacation with them – maybe Hawaii or Central America, not sure yet”, said Thomas Fabercastel of Maryland. “I don’t even need to take my camera for pictures, I’ll just download them from Flickr – thank goodness for those silly people that actually visited those places. “

“Oh my God, I hate being sweaty! Like, why travel on a plane with strangers and such, forget it! I will use Google Earth to visit China and Thailand and Monaco and Japan with my online boyfriend!”, said a joyful Lisa from New York.

Google Earth is about to revolutionize the traveling behavior of millions of people, who are used to hanging out at Facebook with friends, gossip about their lives on Twitter and who gather to party at MySpace pages. Google Earth destinations will now offer the much needed relaxation from the stressful virtual reality experienced by today’s busy individuals.