Inside the Internet.

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• Your Gullible Friend Has Sent You a Photo! The dangers of social spam.
  Chris Wilson Sept. 23, 2009
  
• Be Like Gmail What Facebook and other Internet companies can learn from Google's webmail service.
  Chris Wilson Sept. 16, 2009
  
• 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 Sept. 2, 2009
  
• No, You Can't Have My Social Security Number Why using SSNs for identification is risky and stupid.
  Chris Wilson July 14, 2009
  
• Will My Video Get 1 Million Views on YouTube? A Slate investigation reveals: not a chance.
  Chris Wilson July 2, 2009
  
• The Death of Windows Step aside, bloated operating systems. The Web browser is coming to save the day.
  Chris Wilson June 18, 2009
  
• The Craigslist Sex Panic How shutting down its "erotic services" section hurts prostitutes and cops.
  Melissa Gira Grant May 27, 2009
  
• 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 April 24, 2009
  
• I See You Typing Spying on someone by hacking into his webcam is disturbingly easy. Why don't more people do it?
  Christopher Beam April 6, 2009
  
• Ye Olde Social Network Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet.
  David Roth March 5, 2009
  
• Charles Darwin Tagged You in a Note on Facebook The evolutionary roots of Facebook's "25 Things" craze.
  Chris Wilson Feb. 11, 2009
  
• 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. 6, 2009