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Ex-Engineer Lashes Out at Zynga Culture, but Current Devs Will Respond on Reddit

Eric Johnson in Commerce on May 24 at 11:13 am PT

It’s on!

Interview: Imgur’s Path to a Billion Image Views Per Day

Liz Gannes in Social on May 15 at 6:30 am PT

A benevolent attitude and an informal alignment with Reddit have helped Imgur stand out in the commodity business of image hosting.

Imgur COO Matt Strader and founder Alan Schaaf

I Am Steve Albini, Ask Me Anything

There won’t ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that’s fine with me because that industry didn’t operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

– Music legend Steve Albini on Reddit

Meet 9GAG, the Community Comedy Site That’s Growing Like Crazy

Liz Gannes in Social on April 12 at 7:00 am PT

The meme community site 9GAG has grown explosively in the last six months, with more unique visitors around the world than Reddit.

Vimeo Gets a New Boss: AOL, Yahoo Vet Kerry Trainor

Peter Kafka in Media on March 19 at 8:21 am PT

Earlier this year, video site Vimeo showed off a new look. Now it has a new CEO. Next up, perhaps, real ad dollars.

News Byte

Reddit Lands Facebook Vet Yishan Wong as CEO

Peter Kafka in Media on March 8 at 3:03 pm PT

Reddit has a new CEO. Former Facebook engineer Yishan Wong is joining the rapidly growing social news site, which owner Conde Nast is spinning out as a separate company — in part, so it could recruit people like Wong. “I’m not looking to step in and make ‘big, bold changes’ — I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline,” Wong wrote on a blog post announcing his move.

List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 3:40 pm PT

As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.

News Byte

Go Daddy Withdraws SOPA Support After Online Backlash

Liz Gannes in News on December 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm PT

Domain seller Go Daddy today backpedaled on its support for the controversial U.S. “Stop Online Piracy Act,” a.k.a. SOPA, which had drawn threats of boycotts on Reddit and elsewhere. Go Daddy, which had been an active participant in the legislative effort, also deleted previous blog posts about its support for the bill.