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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.

One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that when you get tired for what ever reason of a site, it is usually simple to roll your own site to meet your needs, and probably the needs of many other people.

"Brace yourself, ads are coming" - and you can vote on them.  Of course, you may choose to give every single one a thumbs down, but that's Reddit's problem.  They're the ones with the new ads, and they're the ones with the new voting system.

Reddit is one of the most difficult social sites to get your content popular on. It can drive thousands of visitors to websites and hundreds of links, but the question is how can you get to the top of the homepage so you can get the traffic and links? We already know that good content and attractive post titles can really help get a story to the top of social sites. Another obviously important factor that helps a story get to the top is the amount of votes it gets. On most social sites, the friends feature can help a story get a large amount of votes in a short amount of time. If you are not too familiar with the friends feature that social sites have, it is the feature that allows one user to befriend other users.

While the morning discussion over tea and scones focused on Google's acquisition of enterprise wiki software firm JotSpot, Cond Nast's Wired Digital division received a present from its corporate masters, who purchased news-sharing site Reddit for Wired.

Social bookmarking site Reddit received running commentary from one of its users in Bangkok as a military coup began to take place.