Reddit release (most of) the source for the site, allowing anyone to host their own reddit. Excellent video announcement from the mascot too.
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Hehe. Plugin for Mint which sends you an email if you get referrers from Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc.
Iconistan invades BBC News
Social bookmark links have appeared at the bottom of BBC News reports.
Reddit survey
Two excellently probing questions from the reddit.com user survey
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Congrats to Alexis, Steve & co.
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A reddit user from Thailand, Alpha_Binary, has been giving live reports from Bangkok in a comment thread.
Scooby Snacks
When I got home from work, there was an unexpected package on the doorstep from Petco.com.
"Crap!", thinks I. "Clearly Bacon has got himself a credit card, and entered the murky world of e-commerce."
Luckily, it turned out to be a gift from the lovely folks at Reddit, as thanks to Bacon for appearing in banner ads for them!
As a precaution, though, I've taken away Bacon's pre-authorized credit-card application forms. You can't be too careful.
Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the “official” place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there’s more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just “targetted advertising”.
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When old and new media collide — Someone at Reader’s Digest calling themself ‘rdeditor’ is submitting articles from rd.com to reddit and digg.
Bacon doesn’t even get out of bed for less than 3 Snausages
Attempts to get Bacon to model a Reddit t-shirt were pretty unsuccessful.
RandomBrainDump from BarCampBoston
Dell/IBM to Mac laptop ratio seemed to be about 80/20 in favour of PCs.
Monster did a great job of selling themselves. We only saw their “labs” area, rather than the cubicle farm I’m sure exists there, plus a tour of their network operations, to wow the geeks.
glenn’s notes on some of the frustation in the organisation of BarCamp sum up my complaints pretty well. Except I’d also add that the font on the name badges was too small.
Veracode sounds like it will be fascinating. Not sure how much of it is public knowledge, so I’ll keep my mouth shut for now. And I got to meet Dildog.
PB Wiki sucks salty dogs’ cocks in hell forever. Once you saved an edit, no-one else could edit the page for 15 minutes, because you “kept” the lock.
Bil Lewis gave a superb demo of his Omniscient Debugger for Java. He managed a great gotcha moment for the audience when his debugger crashed. “You should debug your debugger,” said a sarcastic audience member. “Good idea!” says Bil, as he shows that he was running the debugger inside a debugger all along. (That this debugger then crashed with a bug only marginally detracted from his showmanship)
The Reddit chaps rock. When the video for their presentation, Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success, is posted, watch it. It got the biggest reaction (and had the most crowded room) of any session of the weekend.
I had the pleasure of giving a ride back to Boston to Eric Skiff of Common Ground, a New York charity, looking to end homelessness. Not put a band-aid over it. End it.
The links I promised that I’d post from my session, Powerful, Pointed Presentations: Creating Passionate Users, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Presentation Zen and Really Bad Powerpoint. And thank you to Larry the Basset Hound for his cameo.
Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success
"Pierre Francois from Underscore_ Consulting" (who looked alarmingly similar to Alexis from Reddit) did a great presentation, somewhat reminiscent of Stephen Colbert's "The Word" segment. The video should be up soon.
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