[OWW-SC] oww.reddit.com

[Reshma Shetty]

Reddit has been purchased and apparently the founders are moving to SF.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwired-acquires-reddit/

I am not sure what this means for oww.reddit.com.

-Reshma

On 10/23/06, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:
> I think it's worth setting it up so that people can actually try it
> and see how well it would work out.  I think john's description of an
> OWW page with the embedded oww.reddit.com sounds fine -- then we can
> have a highlight about it on the front page so folks notice it and see
> how it plays out.
>
> anyone have any issues with this / other thoughts?  probably worth
> giving it a try before the next SC meeting if its technically
> feasible.
>
> thanks,
> jason
>
>
>
> On 10/20/06, Julius Lucks <lucks at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Note that no loggins are required to see the results - only to comment and
> > vote.  I also don't see a problem for oww.reddit.com - I think reddit can
> > filter out pages posted from other locations so this one will have only OWW
> > content.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Lucks
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2006, at 5:51 PM, John Cumbers wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > So the reddit people would be willing to set up oww.reddit.com for us, but
> > others did now want to commit to this just yet.   Given that we want to try
> > some sort of voting and commenting system out now, could we just go with it
> > and see how it goes?   The name OWW means nothing without it linked from the
> > wiki.
> >
> > alternatively maybe we could have the not-so-catchy
> > biosciencewiki.reddit.com to start with.  Either way, if we embed it into an
> > OWW webpage then nobody is going to go to the main URL anyway.  We could
> > link to it from the main page to give it initial publicity, and if it works,
> > eventually show the top n articles on the main page.  I think this would be
> > a good way to experiment with it, but if you have concerns please voice them
> > now.
> >
> > We could try and synchronise the logins eventually and we could arrange it
> > so that the comments and postings are licensed under creative comments.
> >
> > Please let me know
> >  cheers,
> > John
> >
> >
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