Social News Sites

This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 32 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Factual, FanFeedr Sports News, Google Finance Portfolio, Google Safe Browsing, Issuu Search, Posterous, and Reddit. The most often used APIs this week are Google [...]  

Reddit user elmstreeter asked the reddit community for help Photoshopping out the oxygen cannula (the tube that delivers oxygen from the tank) from the last photo he had with his mother who just died of cancer. Reddit users quickly jumped in, each improving upon the previous person’s modifications. Original Photo Photo Cleaned Up by Reddit Users via Felicia [...]This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter...  

Playing around in Reddit tonight I found several threads being attacked by what appears to be an XSS (cross site scripting) virus. If you go to these threads and view the code being put out by the script, it will take over your commenting and replies for the thread outputing the same code. The best thing to do now if you…Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.XSS Attack on Reddit  

Reddit (reddit.com) is a social news website, and it's much better than Digg or Slashdot.However, it got hit today by a XSS worm that was spreading via comments on the site.It all started with a user called, suitably enough, xssfinder.His account has already been deleted.This user posted some test comments exploiting the fact that Reddit wasn't filtering out JavaScript in certain instances when you were hovering your mouse over text.When...  

Reddit founders Kn0thing and Spez have left the building. The social media juggernaut's founders Alexis (Kn0thing) and Steve (Spez) have declined to renew their contracts, prompting much discussion and speculation on reddit itself, and the incubator that helped it start up, Ycombinator.  

The founders of Reddit.com confirmed the rumors first aired here two weeks ago: they are leaving Wired Digital, which acquired their site in 2006. Bad news, but not unexpected. Here's Reddit's growth after spoiled Condé Nast execs took it over: Quantcast (Reddit is the lower line; news ranking competitor Digg the upper): ComScore, via TechCrunch (Reddit is the lower, red line): The departures of Ohanian and Huffman were anticipated. The co...  

Reddit.com commenters defend Starbucks' labor practicesSeattle TimesThat's pretty much what Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in his 1997 book, "Pour Your Heart Into It." More recently, Starbucks has run into trouble with ...  

Compete submits: The Death of Newspapers or the Rise of Reddit? TechCrunch recently pointed out that “Google’s Got Some Suggestions” about what Newspapers are:Complete Story »  

Reddit got attacked by rogue h4x0rz who found a way to insert comment bombs. The malefactors have found a way to turn you into a comment spammer against your will! Basically, mousing over a comment would execute a...read more  

Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have just announced that they'll be leaving the company come October 31, when their contracts expire. The news doesn't come as a huge surprise — it will have been three years to the day that Condé Nast acquired Reddit, and the founders likely had a three year contract as part of the deal. Reddit's post notes that while co-founder Chris Slowe's contract also expired he'll be staying on board...  

The first bug wasn't really a bug, but a feature of markdown that we hadn't removed. This feature allowed one to specify a variable for replacement later on. This feature alone however was not enough to carry out the exploit. The second bug was also in the markdown library. To prevent double escaping of certain characters, they are run through MD5 after being escaped once, and then the MD5 is undone at the end. Since the MD5 is the same every...  

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Riotjs: A JavaScript Unit Testing Framework · reddit.com (1 hour, 5 min ago) jQuery ... semsem30 » Integrating ExtJS Javascript Library into Oracle APEX · Hi Mark, your app EXTJS with APEX is very nice.. Is there a possibilty to . ...  

Nithendil writes guyhersh from reddit.com describes the situation (warning: title NSFW): Based on what I've seen today, here's what went down. Reddit user, Nithendil writes guyhersh from reddit.com describes the situation (warning: ...  

In which our heroes are groped inappropriately, invade Kansas, kill a meme, and ride a mechanical bull while wearing a lion costume.Contributor: Reddit TravelersPublished: Sep 24, 2009