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A Web Spider for Everyone: By Erica Naone | 09/25/2009 | 3 Comments; A startup uses PC idle time to crawl Web pages on demand.

How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users: By Erica Naone | 09/22/2009 | 5 Comments; VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.

Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom?: By Kristina Grifantini | 09/16/2009 | 28 Comments; Researchers say online recommendation systems can be distorted by a minority of users.

Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook: By Robert Lemos | 09/09/2009 | 5 Comments; FaceCloak lets users hide sensitive updates from prying eyes, including Facebook's.

Adding Trust to Wikipedia, and Beyond: By Erica Naone | 09/04/2009 | 2 Comments; Tracing information back to its source could help prove trustworthiness.

The Evolution of Retweeting: By Kristina Grifantini | 08/26/2009; Formalizing the retweet may change people's behavior.

Antivirus Protection Gets Social: By Robert Lemos | 08/21/2009; Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software?

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On Openness: By Jason Pontin | 12 Comments; What freedom attracts.

Microsoft Team Traces Malicious Users: By Robert Lemos | 08/13/2009 | 2 Comments; Three researchers find a way to trace compromised machines used to attack other computers.

Finding the Right Piece of Sky: By Erica Naone | 08/12/2009; Researchers design a search system that recognizes the features of pictures of the sky.

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