Some interesting developments for his aesthetically impressive social networking experiment, like games and some taggable videos, are on the way. founder Charles Forman was making quite the social splash, wearing a name tag that said "Mark Zuckerberg" and passing out obscenely large business cards that got everybody's attention. Gawker Media's Scott Kidder was also there, attempting to dissuage rumors that his employer's "Guide to Conquering All Media" had been selling rather poorly. (Who knows?) Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian were actively talking to their guests and keeping the scene at the bar under control (Ohanian wanted to give the bartenders a hand, but the establishment's rules banned him from getting behind the tap).Īlso spotted: Alley social fixtures Nate Westheimer of BricaBox and Michael Galpert of Worth1000 were making the rounds-it's tough to show up at a New York tech event and not run into either or both of those guys. There were no costumes involved, unlike the Boston Reddit party on Halloween, Most of the people in the crowd were avid Reddit members who'd put their usernames on their name tags they seemed to be a quirky and sociable bunch, and a few people remarked that they'd be interested in seeing what the demographic differences would be if a similar party were thrown by Reddit rival Digg. CrackBerrys, clockwise from left: Charles Forman, Anthony Volodkin, Scott Kidder Guess that's what happens when Conde Nast snatches you up.
That's because the beer was free all night long. Reddit had reason to keep the rabble out. The Gotham installment took place in a woefully undersized Alphabet City dive called The Hanger Bar, and was not-so-woefully under-publicized.
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That was the rallying cry for the Reddit party in New York's East Village on Saturday night, the latest stop on the social news site's "Drankkit World Tour 2007"-an event series that has made it to San Francisco and Boston so far, with Toronto, Chicago, D.C., and a few others still to come.