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1.reddit helps break down a border! (also, some admins were on a podcast) (blog.reddit.com)
Earlier this summer, the guys who draw Cyanide & Happiness came to the Internet with a problem: they were all trying to move to the same place to facilitate the further development of their comic, but one of them, Dave, lived in Ireland and was having ...
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2.Shedding Light on Scribd Archives (blog.scribd.com)
A few weeks ago, Scribd launched a beta test of a premium feature that allows people to download certain archived content for a fee. This does not restrict people’s ability to read the content in other ways, such as their computers, mobile device...
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3.World Economic Forum Names Scribd Technology Pioneer 2011 (blog.scribd.com)
Today, we are proud and humbled to announce that Scribd has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer Award winner. The Technology Pioneer Award is one of the highest honors that any tech company can receive, with recipie...
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4.StackOverflow and better recommendations for Firefox and Chrome (blog.webmynd.com)
You can now get StackOverflow search results as a WebMynd widget with our Firefox and Chrome sidebars: In the v1.1 release we’ve also added more intelligent recommendations: we try to add a good source to our sidebar depending on what you’r...
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5.Everything went better than expected (blog.reddit.com)
We had some interesting traffic yesterday. Usually that would mean it's time for a technobabbly post-mortem about which part of our infrastructure failed and caused the site to go down for three hours. However, something strange happened this time: the...
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6.Enterprise Social Apps (blog.heroku.com)
With over 80,000 applications on Heroku, we are frequently asked what type of apps people are building. While there’s a wide range, one of the areas I’ve been most excited about is social apps. We have thousands of social applications aro...
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7.Seminar Announcement: Using Prediction Markets in Government (blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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8.How Scribd HTML5 Works … Even When It Shouldn’t (blog.scribd.com)
If you’ve been following Scribd’s transition to HTML5 and enjoy the techier side of life, don’t miss the latest Scribd Tech Blog Post that outlines how we make HTML5 work even on browsers where it shouldn’t.
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9.Send Dropbox to SXSW! (blog.dropbox.com)
Hey everyone,
SXSW is half a year away and we’d like to send Drew (our CEO) there to give a talk! For those of you who aren’t too familiar with SXSW, it’s an annual festival in Austin, Texas that celebrates film, music, and the intera... -
10.Welcome Alex and Lia! (blog.reddit.com)
It's proving to be an exciting summer for the site, and, in a sign of our ongoing progress, we're excited to (retroactively) announce two new members of team reddit.Starting earlier this month, we've had an intern working out of our New York office. He...
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11.New Feature - Give someone else karma by "liking" their question or comment (blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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12.Songkick + NME Music Photography Awards (www.songkick.com)
When it comes to live music, nothings tops the excitement of actually being at the show, but a good picture can certainly help you relive it. Songkick and NME love celebrating these moments, especially the ones captured by gig-going amateur photographe...
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13.Google Chrome 6 support (blog.rescuetime.com)
We are happy to announce that RescueTime now supports the current Beta versions of Google Chrome 6. You can download the update to RescueTime for Windows or Mac OS X The main reason that RescueTime was not working with Google Chrome 6 is the removal of...
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14.reddit gold now takes google checkout (blog.reddit.com)
We've been told that it's not nice to badmouth one's business partners, so reddit officially has no comment as to whether or not our experience with PayPal has been one long nightmarish frustrating bureaucratic pain in the nuts.That aside, we're please...
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15.The Overconfidence Problem in Forecasting (blog.inklingmarkets.com)
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16.Songkick Celebration of Curation Mix (www.songkick.com)
We’re big fans of what the guys over at Mixcloud are doing, so were rather chuffed when they asked us to be a part of their Celebration of Curation campaign to mark their one year anniversary. The whole team got involved in picking the tracks for...
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17.Timezones (finally) and Introducing help.posterous.com (blog.posterous.com)
In the last six months, we've received 337 feature requests for timezone support. No excuses for why it took us so long to add it. But it's live now.
You can now adjust your timezone underneath your site settings.We love getting emails from y...
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18.Social App Workshop Videos (blog.heroku.com)
Last month’s Social App Workshop was a huge success. With a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling the basement of our new office, a great lineup of presenters and some fun coding in the afternoon it surpassed our expectations. Social App Wo...
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19.RescueTime Back to School Special (blog.rescuetime.com)
By popular request, I’m proud to announce that we’ve released a RescueTime package aimed at families with school-aged children. You can check out the tour here. Spoiler alert: it’s really just a version of RescueTime for Teams that we...
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20.reddit is hiring! (blog.reddit.com)
Big news today in the reddit world: we've just been given official approval to hire our first new developer in nearly two years!First off, a deep, heartfelt thank you to the 10,000+ people who subscribed to reddit gold. This would absolutely not be hap...
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21.GitHub Issues Update (cappuccino.org)
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22.Spotted on the NYC Subway (octopart.com)
Last night on the D train to Brooklyn, I spotted a MakerBot. I looked up to find Bre Pettis sporting his stylish Octopart tee shirt! We chatted for a bit about MakerBot, NYC Resistor and capacitors before we parted ways at Atlantic Avenue.
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23.GoDaddy disables RescueTime.com with NO Warning! (blog.rescuetime.com)
Update: as of ~12:20 PM PST site access was restored. We are not too pleased with GoDaddy right now. We had the RescueTime.com domain set to auto-renew every 2 years. The credit card they had on file was no longer valid (one of the frequent instances w...
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24.Feature out, feature in (blog.reddit.com)
Subscribers to reddit gold get a new feature today, and everyone else gets a feature that used to be gold-only:Logo tooltipsWhen we run a special logo on the front page, you can now hover your mouse over it for an explanation of what it's for.Special t...
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25.Bundler Status Update (blog.heroku.com)
Bundler is quickly shaping up to meet all it’s promise as THE best way to manage your application dependencies. This afternoon we updated Heroku to the latest version – 1.0.0RC5. RC5 addresses all known outstanding issues including the gi...
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