slashdot

Slashdot is a technology news site featuring user submitted news stories with a focus on technology and science news. The website was founded in 1997 by Rob Malda who is known as Commander Taco on the site.


Slashdot users submit summaries of news stories with links to the original story which are then selected by editors for publication on the site. The site is largely self-regulated with randomly assigned moderators who rate user comments and administrators who watch over the site.

The huge popularity of the website can lead to the so called Slashdot effect which describes the crashing or slowdown of a website or server by users that are visiting the site from the Slashdot news post.

You'll find bloggers talking about Slashdot at sites like GizmoWhiz and Slashdot Review.

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• Current Trends in Social News Website Design

  
  Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials — Authority: 508
  Trends don’t happen overnight. It is the gradual process of change in an industry that initiates new trends silently. We might not notice the “new” trends in an industry unless they actually become new trends. I covered the trends behind hotel web designs  just because I could see a pattern emerging amongst ...
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• Want More Stickiness? Users Logging In Through Social Networks …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 135
  Users Logging In Through Social Networks Spend 50% More Time On Site.
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• Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server

  
  Seen On Slash - The best comments ever seen on Slashdot — Authority: 92
  Re:It would be good to have optional GUI by phrostie (121428) there are 2 ways to look at this. 1. once again, Windows has copied Unix. 2. there is so much bloat that the GUI is the only place they can trim. Flame on! LOL
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• Payoff.com Raises $2M, Gamifies Personal Finance Management …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 135
  The site also offers tools and blog posts to help users with their financial situations, and encourages people to share their achievements with friends and family using social networking services. Posted in Social Media News, ..
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• Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of …

  
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  An anonymous reader writes “Eben Moglen, founder of the Freedombox project, has taken to yelling at journalists reporting about social networks . One wonders if this messaging will work to end proprietary, centralized social ...
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