Reddit Plans to Pay Its Users With Mysterious Reddit Notes. After securing $50 million in outside funding back in September, Reddit had promised it would find a way to let the community own 10 percent of those shares.
Today, it is revealing some details as to how: Reddit Notes. Details are still vague, but Reddit will host a random lottery to give away around 950,000 notes to divide among active users. They will then be able to deposit their notes into a virtual wallet, after which they can use the funds to “tip, donate or trade.” Reddit Notes started taking shape after listening to thousands of requests from users and considering some ideas of its own. The company notes its still working out the kinks – such as how the plan will work under government regulations – and plans to start handing out the notes in fall of 2015. Reddit Live Is Official, Lets Anyone Create their Own Live Blog. Today, Reddit officially launched its own live-blogging platform.
Mashable. Facebook will be pounding the pavement this summer in an attempt to teach its largest group of advertisers — small and medium-sized businesses — how to utilize the company's ad offerings.
Facebook, along with partners like Square, Intuit QuickBooks, and LegalZoom, is planning a five-stop event tour the company calls Facebook Fit, a series of "boot camp-style events designed to help SMBs achieve business success," Facebook wrote in a blog post Tuesday. Facebook has stops planned in five major U.S. markets, and expects 500 to 700 attendees at each event, according to Dan Levy, Facebook's director of small business.
The events are intended for both existing and potential advertisers, and Levy tells Mashable that the specific content may be determined by which companies sign up. The idea for a boot camp came as a result of Facebook's Small Business Council. a collection of a dozen advertisers who met at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters a few months back. Reddit Now Lists Trending Subreddits On Its Front Page. Subreddits are a key part of Reddit, as they create tons of engagement on the site by letting registered users create custom sub-forums for anything under the sun.
To find a subreddit among thousands and thousands though, can be a challenge. Mashable. Photo website Imgur is taking a major step beyond its roots as an easy way for Reddit users to share photos with a $40 million round of funding.
The investment is the first outside funding for the site, which has quietly grown into one of the largest online hosts of images and gifs. The site boasts more than 130 million unique monthly users and more than 2 billion daily pageviews. Alan Schaaf started Imgur out of his Ohio University dorm room in 2009. The site's origin is chronicled in a now famous post on Reddit entitled: "My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think? " The site quickly become the go-to host for Reddit users but grew beyond the site to begin generating its own traffic. With Reddit, Schaaf found a fervent user base that helped the site grow rapidly while becoming profitable almost immediately.
"We've always been profitable from the very beginning," Schaaf told Mashable Taking money wasn't easy, Schaaf said. 20 Things We Learned From Martha Stewart's Sassy AMA. Martha Stewart is so much more than crafts and fluffy pillows.
The queen of lifestyle showed a sassier side to Reddit on Thursday during an Martha Stewart held a AMA, in which she invited users to ask her almost anything. Of course, Reddit didn't hold back at all, asking Stewart about everything from sex tips and prison tattoos, to food and household questions. Stewart surprisingly revealed a lot more than expected, including binge-watching House of Cards, her favorite musician, movie, and her relationship with Snoop Dogg.
Author and clean freak Julie Kerr, who wrote the book "My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag . . . and Other Things You Can't Ask Martha," even chimed in to ask some tough questions that she probably shouldn't have asked, and Stewart handled the situation like a true professional. Dogecoins Power Jamaican Bobsled Team to Sochi Olympics. A perfect storm of Internet has helped send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Olympics.
The Jamaica Olympic Association said on Monday that it would cover the group's travel costs, while a series of online fundraisers have put together the money for other elements like equipment and further training. Crowdfunding, doge, Reddit and virtual currency have combined to raise approximately $93,000 in less than three days (at the time of writing) for the Olympics-bound underdogs. The Jamaican bobsled team, which was immortalized in the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings, qualified for Sochi after a 12-year absence from the games. However, as recently as two days ago, the team was broke and needed $80,000 to compete. The team has no official funding and will need to pay for various costs including travel and equipment. The Internet took notice, and money began to roll in. The Internet took notice, and money began to roll in. The team officially qualified for the event on Saturday.