The session may up the president's tech cred, which has already been bolstered in the past by his social media prowess and use of technology in campaigns.
Many have said that his use of social media in the 2008 election helped him get elected and just last week, Obama's campaign became the first to accept contributions via text messages.
Reddit General Manager Erik Martin said he didn't know what this would do for … Read more
U.S. President Barack Obama briefly took to Reddit today to do one of the popular social news site's AMA or "ask me anything" sessions.
The interview, which kicked off just after 1 p.m. Pacific and lasted roughly an hour, quickly brought the site to its knees.
Ahead of the overload, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian confirmed that President Obama was legitimately participating in the event, adding that the questions were being answered from Charlottesville, Va., where Obama is currently campaigning for a second term.
The format allows any registered Reddit users to ask questions, and the … Read more
If there was anything Curiosity fans wanted to know about Mars, the rover, and the scientists behind the Martian landing, they were able to ask it today.
Reddit hosted a lengthy "Ask us Anything" Q&A with 12 members of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover science and engineering team. And, yes, it included the "Mohawk guy."
Dozens of topics were covered, from whether there is life on Mars to how far Curiosity will roam within the Gale Crater to specifications of the equipment on the rover. At the time of this writing, there is a … Read more
All the people at Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen -- a local restaurant chain in California -- wanted was a catchy name for their forthcoming green apple-flavored Mountain Dew beverage creation. Having faith in their loyal, caffeine-addicted, corn syrup-lovin' customers, they jumped on the crowdsourcing bandwagon and delegated the task to the public.
Unfortunately for the earnest restauranteurs, 4Chan (and/or Reddit) users were most happy to oblige.… Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- New technology lets students cheat more than ever.
- America's hottest late-night club is Applebee's; photographic evidence.
- Crazy message left on a broken airplane wing.
- Homosexual gamers to hold a "Gaymer" convention.
- Not having a Facebook profile now makes you "suspicious."
- Panasonic ErgotFit headphones cost $5, sound like $50.
- Bathroom break video: Everybody hurts.
Episode 1,105 Subscribe in iTunes (audio) | Subscribe in iTunes (video) | Subscribe in RSS Audio | Subscribe in RSS VideoIn addition to a discussion about "The Babymakers," Jay and Kevin talk to Jeff about a sequel to "Super Troopers," getting "Potfest" off the ground, and what else is in store for Broken Lizard.… Read more
Leaked from today's 404 show:
- Guy gets butt kicked for wearing digital eye glasses inside McDonald's.
- Burger King employee stands on lettuce, gets busted by Internet.
- This is how you paint a 150-foot Batman.
- Does this photo of yesterday's storm in New York deserve an Instagram filter?… Read more
A Facebook engineer took to Reddit late Monday to apologize for inadvertently blocking Imgur, one of the most popular image sharing sites on the Web, from the social network.
Users were prevented from posting any Imgur links to their profile pages and timelines on Monday, and were greeted by a Facebook error message telling them the links were being "blocked for being spammy or unsafe."
The false positive may have gone unnoticed by Facebook's estimated 950 million users late on Monday night, but the block was enough to provoke a backlash from users of Reddit, the hugely … Read more
Digg's painful downfall has finally hit rock bottom. Does that mean Digg can only go up now?
As you've probably heard, the once-mighty social news Web site has sold to Betaworks for a paltry $500,000. The total price of the acquisition was around $16 million, if you include The Washington Post's acquisition of the team and LinkedIn's acquisition of the patents.
That price is still a far cry from the $200 million that Google was ready to spend to acquire Digg in 2008. And those numbers seem paltry in comparison with the billion dollar deals … Read more
Leaked from today's 404 episode:
- Jeff, unimpressed with last night's Macy's Fireworks display, left his own message in the sky.
- San Diego fireworks fail ends as quickly as it starts.
- Dear Interns: Think twice before tweet-talking your coworkers.
- Men are from Reddit, women are from Pinterest.
Bathroom break video: Anaheim from Daniel shows us how to output 404 shirts using an mPower garment printer!… Read more
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