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It's official, the Washington Post is "buying" Digg's engineering team. In total, 15 Digg engineers will join the paper's SocialCode, a subsidiary that handles social ad buys, on Facebook and Twitter. Apparently, that's only half the story, rumors say, as the site and the technology are about to b... |
10 May 2012
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The first official Android 4.0 ICS ROM for HTC Rezound leaked about a month ago, but the update has yet to be pushed onto devices.
Although HTC and Verizon did not offer any information on the exact availability of the update, it looks like new details have just emerged online.
A Reddit user, claiming to work for t... |
20 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The hacktivist collective and the social news site Reddit revealed their plans to black out their websites for 12 hours on January 18 as a form of protest against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Reddit representatives wrote on the site’s blog about their intentions of shutting down website act... |
13 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Just last summer, Reddit proudly announced some rather impressive numbers, it had 1.2 billion page views in a month. That was quite a big change for the service which had been struggling until less than a couple of years ago, despite the core loyal following.
A few months later and Reddit is seeing 1.8 billion page... |
31 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Aggressive pricing, scale and speed may have helped Amazon become the largest online retailer in the world, but great customer service probably helped as well.In a great example of the fact that people like 'good news' stories just as much as the bad news one, a story on Reddit about Amazon refunding an ord... |
24 October 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Canvas, the photo sharing and remixing site created by 4chan's Christopher Poole (moot), is now live for everyone. The site had been in private beta for a few months now as it built new features and a strong core community. Now, the site is live and can be used and visited by anyone.
The site is still in beta... |
8 September 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Reddit has announced that it's becoming an independent company, spinning off from Conde Nast, but remaining under the same ownership. Reddit will become Reddit Inc., an independent company which will make its own decisions, under the guidance of a board of directors that's been set up.
Reddit Co-Founder ... |
7 September 2011
07:47 GMT |
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In the world of Facebook and Twitter, two sites that have Web 2.0 written all over them are not only making by, but growing at huge rates. Blogging, for the everyday user, lost its appeal years ago, but Tumblr's take on has led it into becoming one of the fastest growing community-driven sites around.Same goes f... |
5 September 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Not quite the resounding acquisition someone might be expecting, but Reddit indeed made its first move on another business. The company bought redditgifts.com, a Secret Santa project started by two of its own users after a community discussion.RedditGifts started back in 2009, after public talks on Reddit requested a... |
24 August 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Not many users were probably aware that Reddit, the platform that gets more popular every month, has been supported in March 2011 by a single developer. Three more have recently been hired, just as the site got to 1.228 billion monthly pageviews.In March, when two of the three developers behind Reddit quit within a ... |
15 June 2011
17:33 GMT |
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Cloud computing sure is great. You get flexible billing, all the storage you need when you need it and generally get to enjoy a much less stressful life. That is, unless the cloud goes down, in which case you're stuck with an unworkable site, angry customers and users and nothing to do except wait around for you... |
21 April 2011
08:31 GMT |
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While Reddit's fortunes grow, with the occasional hiccup, Digg is not doing very well. The much hyped redesign failed and it's been loosing users ever since it was introduced. Now its losing one of its cofounders as well as Kevin Rose announced that he will be quitting Digg and is already working on a new s... |
19 March 2011
15:40 GMT |
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Reddit has been flying high for the past months, user numbers are surging and so is revenue for the first time. Strange then that the site is now down to one developer since the other two both quit this week. Reddit has always operated with a very small crew and, even as the site grew, it only hired few more people. ... |
19 March 2011
14:05 GMT |
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The last massive wave of hires at Reddit hasn't settled yet, but the site isn't slowing down. After doubling its system admin team, and doubling its sales team it is now looking to double its engineering team as well. And this time around the numbers are even bigger, when all is said and done, Reddit will h... |
11 February 2011
13:03 GMT |
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Reddit is experiencing a renaissance, the site that seemed to linger for a few years, had a great 2010 and it looks like it's poised to grow even bigger and faster this year. While traffic exploded in the last year, so did the strain on its servers. It has been adding more, but it now has the manpower to handle ... |
9 February 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Reddit has been riding a wave of popularity for the past year and especially in the last few months. Digg v4's complete failure is to blame, but it's more than that, Reddit must be doing something right since it's just announced that it has passed the 1 billion pageviews mark. Very uncommon for large w... |
3 February 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Reddit has had a great year, that much seemed obvious as the site popped up all over the place and more often in recent months. But the site is providing the stats to back this up, page views more than tripled in 2010, this while people spent more time on the site.Reddit got about 250 million page views in January 20... |
4 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Mount Everest is clearly one of the best known mountains in the world, but the reality doesn't quite live up to the reputation, it seems. Visitors to the famed peak disappointed by the major drawbacks such as lack WiFi and the poor oxygen quantity took to Google Maps Place Pages to have their grievances heard. "... |
14 October 2010
07:15 GMT |
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Digg hasn't been having a great week and, despite changes, things don't seem to be settling down. Reddit on the other hand, and expectantly perhaps, couldn't be better.The recent Digg revolt, which pushed Reddit stories to take over the Digg homepage, led to a surge in traffic for the smaller site, tho... |
1 September 2010
05:39 GMT |
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If there were any doubts that Digg users really don't like the new site, or rather, that they really, really hate it, you just have to look at the current Digg homepage to know.11 out of the top 16 stories on the Digg Top News section are from Reddit and one of the others is a sponsored entry. The top story on D... |
30 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Reddit has been making the news quite a bit lately, but for the oddest reasons. And the latest is no exception, just as the site is sparring with its corporate overlords over marijuana legalization ads, Ben Huh of I can Haz Cheezburger fame, is making a public offer to buy the site."I have made this offer privately t... |
28 August 2010
06:28 GMT |
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You may have heard about Reddit’s financial troubles of late. The social news aggregator has been having trouble keeping up with traffic and sent out a plea to its users for help. The move worked, to a degree, but it hasn’t solved the cause of its problems. So Reddit is now trying to set the record straig... |
16 July 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Reddit was hit yesterday by an out of control XSS worm, which someone launched as a proof of concept. The website administrators moved swiftly to stop the attack and inform the public, thus earning the appreciation of the security community.Reddit is a social news and social bookmarking website that allows users to p... |
29 September 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, the founders of the famous reddit.com website, decided to sell their first two PowerBooks in order to donate the revenues to The American Brain Tumor Association. The Apple laptops include a 1.5 Ghz PowerPC G4 processor, 1 GB RAM memory, 80 GB hard drive capacity, 15 inches screen si... |
23 July 2007
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