Socialite 1.0 Beta 3 released
Socialite 1.0 Beta 3 has been released and there are a couple of major changes in this edition.

The developers have dropped support for OneRiot, Identi.ca and Reddit.
They have also added support for Twitter Lists in this edition.
They are now using Facebook Connect to authorize Facebook connectivity.
They [...]

Reddit is in a state of mess due to some JavaScript attack!
Reddit is in a state of mess at the moment due to some attack which has managed to affect almost all the registered users of the service.
The attack seems to be related to some JavaScript related vulnerability which remains unfixed in the [...]

dickensurl.com: For fans of Charles Dickens
Fans of Charles Dickens have something to cheer about. They now have their own replacement service for link shortening tools like TinyURL…
DickensURL.com is a new service that was inspired by a comment posted on reddit.com.
It does not generate short URLs though the results are still pretty interesting. As a [...]

BackType Connect now available as a WordPress plug-in
If you are a user of BackType and WordPress, there is some good news for you.
BackType has released a new plug-in for WordPress that brings BackType Connect functionality to your blog.
BackType Connect enables the blogger to import comments connected to a blog post from third party services on [...]

Reddit goes open source!
Reddit is one of the several social news websites (along with Digg).
The developers have announced that they are open sourcing the code behind the service.
They believe that open sourcing the system would speed up the development of the engine.
It would also increase the transparency considering people would get to see the algorithm [...]