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Reddit Launches Video Site

Reddit has launched a new video site called Reddit TV (located at Reddit.tv). The site pulls videos from the "what's hot" section of Reddit and places them into a video-dedicated site organized by channel.

Reddit Turns Half-Life Meme Into CERN Gift

CERN will receive a wrecking bar from Reddit on behalf of its user community, a love of the game Half-Life, and a cheeky sense of humor.

Reddit Hits The Vids With YourWeek

Social media site Reddit stepped in front of the camera with their long-awaited venture, YourWeek, with content driven by Reddit's users.

Make Your Own Reddit

Digg fans have always had the option of creating their own version of the site, thanks to Pligg. Now Reddit fans are going to get the opportunity to create their own personal version of the popular social voting site.

OMG, Fark To Trademark NSFW

A trademark registration filed on behalf of Fark.com's owner Drew Curtis generated plenty of attention when news of it hit social media sites.

YouTube Account Shut Down Over Police Brutality

Reuters writes: The video-sharing Web site YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said. Wael Abbas said close to 100 images (sic) he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations.

Social News Site Launches In Private Beta

Social media Website Mixx, launched today in private beta. The customizable site brings together a combination of user-recommended news articles, videos and images, social networking and personalization tools.

The Loss of Reddit

Reddit and I go way, way back. I was there when Alexis and Steve presented the early idea (and a working application) at one of the early Web Innovator's meetups in a small, cramped bar in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Several months later, there was a startup meetup at MIT.  I was one of three groups presenting at a startup gathering at MIT.  The guys from Reddit spoke right after me.

BlinkList Closes Eyes For Over 20 Hours

It’s nice to have a popular site, but if the popularity becomes overwhelming, the owner will (temporarily) be left without a site at all.  According to a new Royal Pingdom survey, that may be what happened to the people at BlinkList.

Blog Post Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap

A supposedly false-alarm that Apple’s Leopard (their next OS) and their much-talked-gadget-phone iPhone being delayed, caused their stock to nose-dive knocking over $4 billion off their Market Cap. This is indeed a phenomenal development in the Blogosphere – a blog article can have that fundamental effect in the real work and real money.