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Will Reddit open source decision change publishing?

What Reddit gets out of it, through CPAL, comes to seem fair. They get credit, a little bug on the page identifying what they have done. Possibly they can use code contributions, and the heft of everyone else's Reddit-like site, to scale and compete. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Reddit, C|Net, Voic.Us, Blogging, Purchasing & Procurement, Open Source, Internet, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Reddit: open source not special sauce

Social news site reddit today announced that it is open-sourcing the majority of the site's code, including parts of the algorithm that determines what stories hit the front page. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Digg, Reddit, Site, Open Source, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.

Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.Variation Of Free SpeechI see this as a bunch of protesters with signs blocking the building.

Tags: SECURITY, hacker tool, distributed denial of service, Reddit, social networking, network

Discussion threads 2008-01-21

Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.

Reddit is the hacking playground for today. While Reddit is just barely a "social network" with minor interactions between its members it is a powerful site for spreading the latest cool thing and in recent months has been pretty much taken over by Ron Paul enthusiasts and Fox...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Reddit, Network, RIAA, SQL, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Channel Management, Hacking, Web Site Development, Programming Languages, Security, Databases, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-20

Digg: 'newspaper of the Web', or its gossip column?

Digg: 'newspaper of the Web', or its gossip column?Digg / TabloidOnce in a while I find a 'nugget' at Digg but have found, increasingly, that what you read there has to be taken with a VERY large 'grain of salt'.BTW, I have found all of your blogs VERY informative.Thanks Donna!...

Tags: Channel management, Web, Reddit, Digg

Discussion threads 2006-06-23

Collaborative filtering: comparing Reddit's karma system to Digg

In recent weeks I've given Digg.com a bit of coverage, albeit of the kind they wouldn't have enjoyed. But actually I love the concept of digg.com and I still think it has a lot of potential, as long as they reduce the groupthink and address the spam issues (which to...

Tags: Digg, Reddit

Blog posts 2006-01-16

Additional Resources

Live: Mashable Monthly

6:30 p.m. The blogger lounge is loaded with pizza, cupcakes, and Fiji water. Pete Cashmore's sending off party is hosted at Roe in San Francisco, and the place is filling up. I got to work quickly and made friends with the representatives from Artiklz. ...

Tags: Cupcake, Flickr, Pete Cashmore, Strands, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Share & Social Bookmark Toolbar for IE (msi)

Do you digg, mixx, stumble or delicous? Share & Social Bookmark Toolbar for IE lets you add the Web page you are browsing to your favorite bookmark/share sites. You can submit content to the following sites: Slinqy, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Furl, Mixx, Newsvine, and Reddit, Stumble Upon. This version is...

Tags: Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Internet Explorer, DolphinNose Technologies, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2008-09-11

Presenting the most pointless website in the world

Regator, describes itself as giving "a bite of the blogosphere's best". After investigating this startup,  from a technical standpoint the website looks quite swish: lots of AJAXy goodness and Web 2.0 features. Unfortunately that's where the goodness ends. This website claims to pick out the...

Tags: Aggregation, Blog, Web Site, Site, Regator, Goodness, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-01

1 Click Homepage Toolbar (xpi)

With one click of the mouse you will receive access to your personal home page, where a number of useful gadgets are assembled for your personal use on a daily basis. Some of the available gadgets include radio, notes, maps, weather, video, clock, calculator, and more. Each gadget is configurable...

Tags: Toolbar, Gadget, Bookmarks Feature, Mice, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-08-27

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 089800 GTX?At $200 dollars, I think that the 9800 GTX is finally able to be considered for the mid-range level card. I was surprised by nVidia and their recent price drops, but after purchasing two of these cards, I have been pleased.Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware 2.0, SoundBlaster X-Fi, Linux, Lol, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Data Center, Apple Inc., Data Centers, Web Browsers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-20

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Ever been Oprah'd?

Ever been Oprah'd?Clouds and ElasticityI have some good examples of what can also be called the reddit or stumbleupon effect. There are so many blog and news disaggregators out there that no only do you get hit one day you can get tremendous ongoing spikes and these aggregators cascade...http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/does-your-hosted-provider-give-you-this-kind-of-elasticity/Web...

Tags: Oprah'd

Discussion threads 2008-03-30

Don't get excited over cable breaks. Yet.

This weekend there was a lot of hand wringing over some posts to Digg, reddit, and slash dot that pointed to this page at the Internet Traffic Report. There is one router in Iran that is not responding to pings so it shows up red. This led to the rapid...

Tags: Iran, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-04

News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...

Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Website Popularity (exe)

Website Popularity is a powerful and easy to use utility that instantly generates reports showing the number of indexed pages your site has on major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN, and more. You also get instant access to your Page Rank on Alexa, Yahoo and Google plus your ranking...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Web Site, Website Popularity, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2007-10-15

Tags Everywhere (xpi)

Do you like Web 2.0 style? Do you like tags and tag clouds? Would you like to see tags on every site you browse? Tags Everywhere Firefox Extension does exactly this and even more. Extension shows related Del.icio.us tags on top of plain sites. In some cases extension shows related...

Tags: Site, Web 2.0, Search, Internet

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Shareaholic (xpi)

Shareaholic allows you share and send links directly from your browser. Submit the Web page you are currently viewing to digg, del.icio.us, facebook, Google bookmarks, magnolia, reddit, stumbleupon, and twitter. If you prefer, e-mail the Web page directly to a friend instead. Also, Shareaholic has a real-time statistics from...

Tags: Web, Web Browser, Web Page, Shareaholic, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2007-09-21

Social Bookmark Icons (zip)

The Fast Icon has released "Social Bookmark Icons", a collection of 12 freeware icons. This icon set, designed in iPhone-like style, includes icons for Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon and Technorati. All icons are sized from 512X512 to 16X16 pixels. A great and useful...

Tags: Social Bookmarking, Icon, Fast Icon

Software downloads 2007-08-08