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Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming | Fast Company

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Rather, it's the idea that the Internet, in particular social networks, engender trust, and the more time you spend on them the more trusting you become." Nor is it that people have gone gaga over smartphones, with one in three Americans owning one.

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Volunteer programmers help region's nonprofits

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Volunteer programmers help region's nonprofits: "This past weekend, 100 computer experts donated their time to design Web sites and other products for local nonprofit organizations during the first Southern Maryland GiveCamp.

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Crowdsourcing put to good use in Africa | Madeleine Bunting | Global development | guardian.co.uk

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Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web

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Every time you join a network, that information has to be duplicated, by hand, by you. It’s a familiar process, but in 2008 we have the tools to break that trend."