RedditGifts.com Blog for kickme444 and 5days

Be redditgifts' first engineer!

Dear redditgifts enthusiast, We write to you with exciting news. We are ready for you to join us in our quest to make people smile and bring happiness to an increasingly angry and cynical world. Here at redditgifts we started on this quest ...

By kickme444

624 redditors donated $37,857 to 26,679 children!

redditors and redditgiftors, let's take a step back and look at what we've done over the first few months of this year. In February we announced that <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/02/cause-worthy-of-rallying-lets-get.html">we were going to be h...

By kickme444

Four new exchanges -- Cookbooks, My Little Pony, Socks, and Board Games!

redditgifts cookbook exchange
Come and join the redditgifts cookbook exchange!

My Little Pony
You a brony? Maybe love My Little Pony? Maybe you WANT to love My Little Pony? SIGN UP NOW!

Board Games
This is an exchange for board game enthusiasts! Sign up here!

Awesomesocks
Socks are awesome! Sign up for the awesomesocks exchange right here!

By kickme444

Tim Ferriss answers your questions

Last week we asked redditors to ask Tim Ferriss anything. Tim did a great job answering the questions we gave him, even the hard ones.

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Books are awesome. Check them out.

Since February 13, over 4,000 people from 63 countries have signed up for the 2012 book exchange. These kind ~~bookrophiliacs~~ bibliophiles have also donated more than $31,000 through DonorsChoose.org/redditgifts, helping us get thousands of books into high-poverty schools. These could be the books that get them hooked. The ones they'll stay up late reading in bed, refusing to sleep until they finish the chapter. The ones they'll pull down from shelves when they're older and instantly remember how awesome it felt to get lost in a story for the first time…

Have you really not signed up yet?

Because these people have (We know. We don't believe it either.):

By kickme444

Help us Decorate our office! (or Send Postcards and Get Stickers!)

Secret Santas and redditors of the world, send us your postcards or holiday cards! One of our favorite things about redditgifts is that we have so many people in so many states, provinces and countries taking part. We would love to decorate our walls with postcards from your city or country. It would be amazing to have cards from all of your countries. If you don’t want to send a tourist card, you can send any kind you like (event a holiday card). We just want to put your cards on our walls! : )

By 5days

reddit Trick or Treat 2011 costume contest winners

This year for reddit Trick or Treat meetup day we had 55 meetups where people got together, wore costumes and had a lot of fun. We asked them to take pictures of the costumes and upload them for a costume contest where we held voting on October 30th and 31st. Lots of fun was had, votes were cast and Thinkgeek has stepped up to give the top 15 vote getters gift certificates. Here are the winners in order of votes.

By kickme444

redditgifts meetups add location awareness

We are excited to release some new features today to our meetups platform. If you head over to our meetups, you'll notice that it looks a bit cleaner, but more importantly, you'll notice that we are now trying to show you meetups that are close to you first (special thanks to simplegeo for the rad API). We redditors are a diverse bunch and we think we should all connect more in real life, we hope this makes it a bit easier to find meetups (and redditors) closer to you.

By kickme444

redditgifts has officially joined forces with reddit!

We have some super exciting news here: redditgifts has officially been acquired by reddit! We are so happy about this as it will allow us to really put our efforts toward making redditgifts exchanges and meetups better than ever.

By kickme444

Yes, Jimmy Fallon just gave the best Arbitrary Day present ever!

We are pretty much beside ourselves here at redditgifts. We LOVE Jimmy Fallon, we watch him regularly and to see that he participated and gave an amazing gift with THE ROOTS is about the best thing ever. Thank you Jimmy and happy Arbitrary Day to you too!

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Redditgifts Launches Meetups Version .2

We are very excited to announce that a number of new features for meetups are launching today. Here at redditgifts we try to get features out, collect feedback from the community and improve quickly. These are the first round of improvements, please try them out and give us feedback so we can improve.

By 5days

Today we announce Arbitrary Day 2011 and Reddit Meetups!

We are so excited to announce the 2nd annual Arbitrary Day gift exchange. What's Arbitrary Day, you ask? It's really simple. Arbitrary Day is a holiday that celebrates nothing in particular. It's about making a stranger happy. It works just like Secret Santa but with less meaning! Sign ups are open from now until May 27th. Arbitrary Day falls on June 25th which is also Global Reddit Meetup Day, serving as your middle of the year giftmas holiday. Join us for the best summer holiday gift exchange ever!

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Legal issues are forcing us to cancel the mix CD exchange.

After much deliberation and counseling with legal professionals we have decided that we need to cancel the mix CD exchange. We are not happy about this and feel very bad that we got peoples hopes up. This is our mistake, we should have gotten legal counsel long before announcing this.

By kickme444

Announcing our first ever mix CD exchange!

We here at redditgifts are big music fans. We listen to music all day and night, have been in many bands, have toured the country times over and couldn't be more excited to announce the first ever redditgifts mix CD exchange in collaboration with r/mixcd.

By kickme444

Announcing our first international snack exchange extravaganza!

Ever had a Violet Crumble? Wonder what the hell a Squirrel Nut Zipper is? How 'bout a lollipop covered in a spicy chili powder?

Well, we are happy to announce that Redditgifts has teamed up with r/snackexchange to have a full on international snack revolution!

By 5days

Today we announce our first ever craft exchange!

It's no secret that there are a ton of really creative people on reddit. In fact, there have been so many creative gifts throughout the last year and a half that we have our own award category for "Favorite Arts and Crafts Gift" with some 300 gifts and counting.

We like hand-made gifts so much that we have teamed up with a young, budding subreddit -- /r/craftexchange to have our first ever craft exchange!

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Today we announce our first ever subreddit gift exchange!

Over the past year we have been working towards the goal of supporting a new type of gift exchange for subreddits. We are so excited to announce that today we are accepting signups for our first pilot subreddit gift exchange for the amazing r/books! If you are already too excited to keep reading and want to just sign up already, head over here.

By kickme444

The Reddit Secret Santa Journey of Cody and Hobbes

I signed up for a Secret Santa program on reddit for the first time, excited beyond belief to cyber-stalk a stranger and give them an amazing gift. The person I got matched to, however, didn’t have very many comments. I thought for a...

By Anisaria

RedditGifts Supports Carl Herold

Teaching people skills is a hard thing to do and few are as good at it as <a href="http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/">Carl Herold</a>.  We here at RedditGifts have been following Carl's efforts to help people <a href="http://www.reddit.co...

By kickme444

Reddit Pillowcases

More amazing creative gifts, this time from redditor  <a href="../../../../profiles/view/radicalem/">radicalem</a>   Arbitrary Day Pillowcases!  eff yah!   <img src="http://i.imgur.com/gMPAf.jpg"...

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We Love Creativity

Here at RedditGifts we love creativity.  We love to see the cool handmade stuff you do.     I'm going to try harder this time around to appreciate some of this stuff.  I saw this come through my google alerts today:<...

By kickme444

Pigjargon Drew a Picture For Arbitrary Day

Pigjargon Drew a Picture For Arbitrary Day Hey, remember a few months ago on reddit when <a href="../../../../profiles/view/pigjargon/">pigjargon</a> asked people to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Favors/comments/be3on/offer_lets_have_a_drawi...

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Who is RedditGifts Anyway?

OK, where to start. After last Christmas I was prett...

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June 25th is now Arbitrary Day

The people have spoken and on June 25th 2010 reddit will be celebrating its first annual Arbitrary Day! What is arbitrary day you ask? It is an arbitrary day in which redditors gather around the world to celebrate and hold karma parties (not on reddit.com of course). The three top choices for holiday names were:

Arbitrary Day - pechinburger
Karma Party - subtextual
Orangered Day - Lorak

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Thank you for all of your support!

Well, 2009 is over and the 2009 secret santa has pretty much come to a close.  Reddit should be getting out the last few trophies sometime in the next few days and overall I think most people had a great experience with this project.  There w...

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We are now selling t-shirts!

It costs money to run this website, so in order to try to make some of that back we have opened a spreadshirt shop to sell some t-shirts. They are pretty cool, why not pop over and buy one or two?

Go over to the store now!

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PLEASE donate with reddit to Haiti

Please, please, please donate with redditors to Haiti. Just follow this link, redditgifts has done it, you should too!

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The future of RedditGifts

The last few months have been a crazy few months for us here at RedditGifts.  I have been trying to write a big post about what exactly happened but, I really am not a writer and the whole process of writing is driving me insane.  So, I figur...

By kickme444

RedditGifts Awards

Today we are opening up a number of gift awards that gifts can get. You might be asking, why? Well, the reason we've decided to do this is that there are an overwhelming amount of gifts in the gallery. This is a good thing and we really hope you'll take the time to go through every one. However, we also realize that we are all time constrained, so we've gone through and picked a few that we thought were deserving. We know we've missed a lot and will need help keeping up with this. So, if you know of a gift that should get an award, or maybe two, by all means let us know over here!

By kickme444

Two Redditors Interviewed on Montreal Radio

Today at 8am est. two redditors were interviewed for the CBC Radio One Daybreak radio show.  Here it is for your listening pleasure.  Nice job guys!     <object width="480" height="385"> <param name="movie...

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My Reddit Christmas Story - how I got to be on TV!

While everything was happening it was all too quick to process, but now that it HAS happened, I feel like I need to chronicle the series of random events that led to this taking place. So here's the story: It all started when my co-worker (jkb8...

By science_junkie

Reddit Secret Santa Featured on Montreal CBC News

RedditGifts was lucky enough to be featured today on CBC Montreal News!  Yesterday the idea <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/ahf6o/hohoho_cbc_loves_secret_santa_vote_up_to_help/">was brought up</a> by <a href="http://www.reddi...

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CBC Radio One Coverage

CBC Radio One in Montreal, Canada will be doing a peice on the reddit secret santa project tommorrow morning sometime 6 and 8:30 eastern time (i think).  They have interviewed a number of Montreal participants and yours truly.  Should be inte...

By kickme444

A Note About Tracking Numbers

We have received about a billion emails today from scared redditors asking for the tracking number of the gift that is going out to them.  Well, we have decided that we are not going to answer these emails and instead, just provide you the data fr...

By kickme444

Second Rematching is Complete

Today I ran the second round of rematching. I would first like to thank all of the generous redditors who have decided that sometimes it is better to give than receive. These people signed up to give gifts again and not receive anything more than a pat on the back from yours truly. Here is the way this worked

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RedditGifts in the Press

A number of sites and publications have covered Redditgifts. Here is a list of a few we have taken note of, if there are others please comment and I will add them.

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RedditGifts has a blog

Welcome to the brand new RedditGifts.com blog! You might be asking yourself, why do you have a blog? Well, there are a lot of people interested in RedditGifts that might not be used to the whole subreddit way of doing things. We've had a good amount of attention from the media and a number of people are following the statistics and I'd like a place that people could come to read about the goings on of RedditGifts. Not to mention, you can subscribe to the RSS feed to keep yourself up to date.

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