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Your Gullible Friend Has Sent You a Photo!
The dangers of social spam.  
Chris Wilson   Sep 23, 2009   Webhead  
Be Like Gmail
What Facebook and other Internet companies can learn from Google's webmail service.  
Chris Wilson   Sep 16, 2009   Webhead  
Masters of the Wikiverse
Wikipedia's new editing policy isn't the end of the encyclopedia's democratic age. It's business as usual.  
Chris Wilson   Sep 02, 2009   Webhead  
No, You Can't Have My Social Security Number
Why using SSNs for identification is risky and stupid.  
Chris Wilson   Jul 14, 2009   Webhead  
Will My Video Get 1 Million Views on YouTube?
A Slate investigation reveals: not a chance.  
Chris Wilson   Jul 02, 2009   Webhead  
The Death of Windows
Step aside, bloated operating systems. The Web browser is coming to save the day.  
Chris Wilson   Jun 18, 2009   Webhead  
The Craigslist Sex Panic
How shutting down its "erotic services" section hurts prostitutes and cops.  
Melissa Gira Grant   May 27, 2009   Webhead  
I'm Human, Computer, I Swear!
It's time to move beyond those squiggly letter tests that Web sites use to weed out spam.  
Chris Wilson   Apr 24, 2009   Webhead  
I See You Typing
Spying on someone by hacking into his webcam is disturbingly easy. Why don't more people do it?  
Christopher Beam   Apr 06, 2009   Webhead  
Ye Olde Social Network
Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet.  
David Roth   Mar 05, 2009   Webhead  
Charles Darwin Tagged You in a Note on Facebook
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's "25 Things" craze.  
Chris Wilson   Feb 11, 2009   Webhead  
The 10 Things We Want To Know About "25 Random Things About Me"
A Slate reader survey: What are the origins of the Facebook phenomenon?  
Chris Wilson   Feb 06, 2009   Webhead  
Measuring the Palin Effect
Is the Alaska governor responsible for record Web traffic in September?  
Chris Wilson   Oct 09, 2008   Webhead  
Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?
Plus, two horrible things your Internet service provider wants to do to make it speedier.  
Chris Wilson   Sep 05, 2008   Webhead  
The Lazy Man's Guide to Web 2.0
FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to.  
Paul Boutin   Aug 06, 2008   Webhead  
How To Talk to a Search Engine
Three queries to help decide if Google or Cuil or Ask is right for you.  
Chris Wilson   Aug 04, 2008   Webhead  
The Search Engine Litmus Test
How do we know if a Google competitor is any good? A Slate reader contest.  
Chris Wilson   Jul 29, 2008   Webhead  
Web 2.0
The new Internet "boom" doesn't live up to its name.  
Paul Boutin   Mar 29, 2006   Webhead  
Slate Has 8 Million Readers, Honest
Or maybe it's 4 million. Which should you believe?  
Paul Boutin   Feb 27, 2006   Webhead  
Confessions of a Bedroom Filmmaker
How I learned to love making movies on my computer.  
Bidisha Banerjee   Feb 21, 2006   Webhead  
Am I Too Old To Learn a New Language?
A computer immersion program tries to teach me Danish.  
Robert Lane Greene   Feb 06, 2006   Webhead  
The Translator's Blues
Will I get replaced by a computer program?  
Jesse Browner   Jan 09, 2006   Webhead  
TV You'll Want To Pay For
How $2 downloads can revive network television.  
Ivan Askwith   Nov 01, 2005   Webhead  
How To Monkey With the Web
The software that lets you rewrite your favorite sites.  
Paul Boutin   Sep 26, 2005   Webhead  
Green-Collar Crime
How I stopped an Internet sex hoax.  
Cyrus Farivar   Aug 01, 2005   Webhead  
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