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Open Source
Reddit goes open source, makes Digg sale even harder
Online news aggregation community site Reddit is open-sourcing the company's Web application software, making it even easier to slap together a Digg-like site in whatever content or demographic vertical you think you can sell ads against. So unless I'm looking specifically for a community of gadget-obsessed, horny, almost exclusively male users, why would I want to buy Digg? [VentureBeat]
rumormonger
Wired relaunching HotWired as a social network?
Chris Anderson, Wired's waggle-eared rock-star editor, has been dropping hints left and right about the relaunch of HotWired, a faded Web property Conde Nast picked up along with Webmonkey last month. The rumor we've heard: That Wired is relaunching the site as a news-focused social network like Digg. (Conde Nast already owns Digg competitor Reddit, whose engineers are likely involved in the project.) It's a sensible brand extension for Wired, but a far cry from HotWired's early ambitions, described in a 1994 email as "live, twitching, the real-time nervous system of the planet." Here's the HotWired FAQ, which reads like it was just unearthed from a time capsule: More »
geek love
Reddit cofounder blabs about Y Combinator founders' secret wedding
We'd heard in April that Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the pair behind startup factory Y Combinator, were partners in love as well as life. The two tied the knot over the weekend, Twittered Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, a graduate of Y Combinator: "Sorry ladies, PG said 'I do' - 'twas a great wedding." We're sure it was — anyone have pictures — or insights into why the two have been so secretive about their romance?
exclusive
Wired's Reddit launches TV show: Your Week
Condé Nast-owned social news aggregator Reddit will today launch a new "interactive public television and internet show," from WETA Washington, D.C. called Your Week. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian tells us the show will feature Reddits usual topics — politics, arts, international, science, tech, social, sports, and pop culture — chosen by through reader and viewer voting. The show's theme song will be chosen through a contest on Jamglue. New Republic senior editor MIchelle Cottle and the National Review's Rich Lowry will host and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is paying the bills. It's a lot like rival social news site Digg's Internet show, Diggnation. Without the beer or the hoodies, we're guessing. Says Ohanian:My only regret is that we didn't have this show back when reddit saved Mister Splashy Pants. I'm working on getting some footage of Jim Lehrer saying "Mister Splashy Pants."
reddit
Leaked screenshots of Wired's redesigned Reddit
Social news aggregator — that is to say, Digg clone — Reddit is working on a redesign. Online media consultant Brent Csutoras landed leaked screenshots. We've annotated them for your convenience. More »
yahoo
62 percent of readers don't mind the Yahoo Buzz payola scheme
According to our admittedly unscientific poll, 62.3 percent or readers said they wouldn't mind if publishers wheeled and dealed their way to the front page of social news sites like Digg, Yahoo Buzz, and Reddit. The news bodes well for Yahoo. Buzz is meant to lure websites into Yahoo's ad network; Yahoo will then take a cut of the ad revenue generated when Buzz send traffic to those sites. It's all part of Yang's grand promises to shareholders made to counter Microsoft's acquisition bid.
the chart
Forget news -- Digg users in it for Lohan's latest nipple slip
As far as Digg users are concerned, Ron Paul, Steve Jobs and slobbering dogs have nothing on Britney's latest baby. Digg and StumbleUpon users click most on stories related to celebrity gossip, videogames, and online clips, according to clickstream data from metrics firm Hitwise. Digg accounts for half of all visits to to news aggregators. eBay's StumbleUpon comes in second with 24 percent of the market. Conde Nast-owned Reddit takes third place.
the chart
Reddit's scientific proof that free beer equals more traffic
Al Gore should count himself lucky they already announced the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. If the Supreme Court weighed in on this one, they might reconsider. Alerting the world the threat of global warming? Meh. In the accompanying chart, Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian prove the correlation between free beer and more traffic. Take a look for yourself. More »
geeks gone wild
Reddit throws NYC drinkfest, but everyone's thirsting for Julia
EAST VILLAGE, NEW YORK — Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, who sold social-news website Reddit a year ago to the publisher of Wired, brought Reddit's beer-laden world tour to New York last night. And, on the promise of an open bar from 7 till last call, the people showed. Among the crowd a pair of Condé Nast Newhouses and a whole mess of Silicon Alley's scruffiest. What'd I learn? Some tidbits such as that Huffman doesn't always flush and that at Reddit, Ohanian just draws the aliens. But mainly we learned that the people wanted to know: Would Jakulia show? More »
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A year after Wired buyout, Reddit founders drink heavily
THE GALLERY LOUNGE, SOMA — Joel Sacks of AdBrite wants to have a word with me. No, nothing to do with his company's adventures in serving up porn ads; he's still pissed off about the time we caught him on video soaking himself with a pint of beer. This time, he's dry. But he's just lucky — this San Francisco bar is packed wall to wall, thanks to social-news site Reddit's open invitation for anyone to come and spill a free beer on their neighbor. The largesse comes from Reddit's owner, Conde Nast, the publisher of Wired, which bought the site a year ago. I got to meet Reddit's founders, most of whom are still, contrary to rumor, at the company. But one was, notably, missing in action: Aaron Swartz, the obstreperous Reddit cofounder who quit shortly after Conde Nast bought the site. More on the founders' status after the jump.More »
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Event overload
Tonight's a big one on the social scene — and Web 2.0 Summit hasn't even opened yet. Have a hearty meal and drink lots of water beforehand. You'll need to fortify your defenses to get through the night. Oh, and practice your French, too. Mais oui! More »
Two Reddit founders are auctioning the Apple PowerBooks on which they programmed the social-news website. All proceeds are going to charity. [eBay]
We hear Wired Digital, Wired's online arm, splashed out some dough on a startup developing Facebook apps. Anyone know which one? And why the Reddit team, purchased by Wired Digital last year, wasn't deemed capable of writing apps for Facebook?
archetypes
The nontrepreneur
NICK DOUGLAS — The serial entrepreneur is dead, and thank god, because he bored me. The new archetypal business creator is not that interested in business at all. Unlike Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their single grand vision, or the mercenary team who built Myspace for the money, founding a company is just one way the nontrepreneur fulfills a desire to improve the world. I'll show you how nontrepreneurs happen to start fantastic companies, how their approach to business is so special, and how they quit without any sense of loss. And I'll do it by using the rather unfair example of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz. More »
social media
Buzztracking "Wizards of Buzz"
In addition to sporting one of the most hilarious illustrations ever to appear in the Wall Street Journal, the "Wizards of Buzz" article trend piece on social media "influencers" really should be the reddest of red-meat linkbait, right? So how's the article doing on the sites it mentions? More »
diggbait
NICK DOUGLAS — A Business 2.0 blogger yesterday blew up Google's tweaked Zeitgeist (which tracks gainers, not top searches). He also deconstructed the PR-friendly "top" lists made by AOL and Yahoo (revealed: AOL's real top searchword is "google"). But what are the top searches on sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Craigslist?
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Behind the Geist: The Top Search Lists You've Never Seen
NICK DOUGLAS — A Business 2.0 blogger yesterday blew up Google's tweaked Zeitgeist (which tracks gainers, not top searches). He also deconstructed the PR-friendly "top" lists made by AOL and Yahoo (revealed: AOL's real top searchword is "google"). But what are the top searches on sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Craigslist?
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