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1:20 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 …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit
Discussion: The Social Web and Brent Csutoras
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way
Brent Csutoras:
REDDIT'S SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT JUST GOT TAGGED
Discussion: TechCrunch
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.
Discussion: Digital Daily, Lockergnome and Gizmodo
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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 …
Stephen Shankland / 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 …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla  —  In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla.  The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue “e” icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.
Discussion: Channel 9 and Digg
Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:   Sweet plugin: Microsoft Cake 2.0 for Firefox 3
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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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
Discussion: Engadget, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
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CNN:
Verizon Pushes Speed Factor In Expanding Faster Web Service
Discussion: The Tech Report
Karl / DSLreports:
50Mbps, 20/20Mbps FiOS Tiers Hit All Markets …
Discussion: Electronista and Gizmodo
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group  —  Yesterday, Photobucket the world's most popular photo sharing site according to Hitwise had its DNS records hijacked to return a hacked page courtesy of the NetDevilz hacking group, a Turkish web site defacement group most widely known …
Discussion: CircleID
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Christopher Boyd / SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Photobucket And NeTDevilz
Discussion: The Register
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.
Discussion: Beyond Search and broadstuff
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.
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 …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Social Investing Site Covestor Is Now Open to the Public  —  Covestor, a social investing site where people share the performance of their real stock portfolios, came out of private beta this morning.  Now anyone can join, and it is welcoming voyeurs who only want to watch other's performance but not share their own.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
OurSignal: Mashup of Digg, Reddit, Delicious and HackerNews  —  OurSignal is the latest site from the makers of CushyCMS, designed to bring you the freshest and most popular news from across the Web.  It's a mashup of several social bookmarking sites focused on news, including reddit, digg, delicious and hackernews.
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 …
InfoWorld:
Wine open source emulation software pops its cork  —  After 15 years of “pain” and “despair,” open-source developers on Tuesday celebrated the release of version 1.0 of the Wine emulation software by, you guessed it, opening a few bottles of wine.  —  Wine allows Windows applications …
 
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Devin Leonard / Fortune:
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
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Aztech's HD-ready wireless streamer
Electronista:
WD MyBook Mirror offers doubled backups
Discussion: Gearlog, TechSpot and Engadget
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Movie theaters join fight against MPAA's anti-DVR initiative
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
This Is The New EMI? …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Nokia to launch advertising ‘ad labs’
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Skills shortage hits games firms
Agence France Presse:
China in anti-monopoly probe of Microsoft
Daniel Langendorf / ReadWriteWeb:
The Coming World of Mobile Sensors
John Chan / CNET News.com:
Experiencing Google's Android