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3:00 PM ET, June 18, 2008

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reddit:
reddit goes open source  —  Today we're excited to announce that we're open sourcing reddit.  We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step.  When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Digg this: Reddit goes open source  —  In the arena of crowd voting sites there is Digg and then there is everyone else.  Every once in a while a challenger will come up that looks promising, but it fades away.  —  For a while that was Netscape (now called Propeller), then it was Mixx …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
In Pursuit of Mysteries:
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3  —  14678 people have read this post.  —  Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team.  As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla
Discussion: Channel 9 and Digg
John / intothefuzz.com:
Let Them Eat Cake  —  This is from the Internet Explorer team...yum.
Discussion: Mozilla Links and Startup Meme
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video  —  YouTube (GOOG), known for short clips of dogs on skateboards, cats on treadmills, is trying something new: Showing video that is much longer than its previous 10-minute limit.  It's something of a test right now, limited to YouTube's …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and The Social Times
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Devin Leonard / Fortune:
YouTube goes long
Discussion: CNET News.com
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
‘New York Times’ goes social with TimesPeople  —  CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy interviews two NYTimes.com  —  software engineers for a video in collaboration with Beet.tv.  —  (Credit: Beet.tv)  —  The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a few cues …
Discussion: Mashable!, PDA and The Social Times
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Firefox Reaches Its Goal Despite Site Problems  —  When the final version of Firefox 3 became available yesterday, it seemed they were going to have a hard time reaching their goal of five million downloads - an arbitrary number, since the record for most software downloads in 24 hours didn't exist before …
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CNET News.com:
Statistics show Firefox 3 spreading fast  —  Firefox 3 is spreading fast, claiming more than 4 percent of the share of Web browser usage less than 24 hours after its release.  —  According to Net Applications, which monitors browser usage at major Web sites, Firefox 3 rapidly ascended …
PR Newswire:
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Navic Networks  —  Navic enables Microsoft to work with industry partners to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions.
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telecoms.com:
Xohm WiMAX to go live in September, says Sprint CTO  —  Now we know.  After weeks of speculation as to when Xohm, the WiMAX business unit of Sprint Nextel, would launch commercial services, Barry West, Sprint Nextel CTO and president of Xohm, finally named the month (if not the day).
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InfoWorld:
Sprint Nextel to launch WiMax in September
Discussion: Ars Technica
Verizon:
Verizon Extends Groundbreaking 50/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Service to Entire FiOS Footprint  —  Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl Announces Groundbreaking 50/20 and 20/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Services Will Be Available to More Than 10 Million Homes and Small Businesses
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Karl / DSLreports:
50Mbps, 20/20Mbps FiOS Tiers Hit All Markets …
Discussion: Electronista and Gizmodo
James Sherwood / The Register:
Teens use technology to party in strangers' pools  —  Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth's splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze - pool crashing.  —  Teens begin by surfing Google Earth's satellite images to find houses with swimming pools - or at least paddling pools.
Ian Youngs / BBC:
Kid Rock boycotts iTunes over pay  —  US music star Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on iTunes because he says artists do not get paid enough for downloads from the Apple store.  —  Kid Rock is one of the last few acts not fully signed up to the service.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion?  —  LinkedIn Worth $1 billion?  — I think so  — It is seriously overvalued  — I don't care either way.  —  The big news tonight is business social network LinkedIn raised $53 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo  —  Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake.  The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees …
Michael Kwan / Mobile Magazine Online:
Activate Your Apple iPhone 3G From Home  —  When Steve Jobs took the stage early last week and unveiled the iPhone 3G to the world, we were given the impression that you would not be able to walk out of an AT&T or Apple Store without having the handset activated.  As it turns out, this isn't exactly the case.
 
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Red Hat chief calls for open source missionary work
Stuart Elliott / TV Decoder:
Traditional Media Not Dead Yet for Marketing, Study Says
Discussion: NewTeeVee and MediaFile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo: Flashback To The Good Days
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Social Investing Site Covestor Is Now Open to the Public
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
An Apple exodus due to low salaries?
Electronista:
WD MyBook Mirror offers doubled backups
Discussion: PC World, Gearlog, TechSpot and Engadget
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
This Is The New EMI? …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Sprint: Samsung Instinct Will Be Cheap $129
InfoWorld:
Wine open source emulation software pops its cork
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Irony: If Google Can't Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site
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OurSignal: Mashup of Digg, Reddit, Delicious and HackerNews
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The Coming World of Mobile Sensors
 

 
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