Morning Reboot: Tuesday October 17

Hello and welcome again to the Reboot. Here are your links for this morning: Sugar Publishing, creators of celebrity gossip blog PopSugar, raised another $5 million (estimated) in funding. The company also plans to launch four new blogs: a women-focused gadget blog called GeekSugar, a music and movies blog called BuzzSugar, a food and drink […]

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Hello and welcome again to the Reboot. Here are your links for this morning:

  • Sugar Publishing, creators of celebrity gossip blog PopSugar, raised another $5 million (estimated) in funding. The company also plans to launch four new blogs: a women-focused gadget blog called GeekSugar, a music and movies blog called BuzzSugar, a food and drink blog called YumSugar and a blog called Giggle Sugar, which will feature links to fun distractions. [TechCrunch and GigaOM]

  • Today, Tuesday October 17 is Calendar Test Day. Mozilla is encouraging community members to help QA test Lightning and Sunbird against other calendar applications.

  • Tech blog tracker TailRank launched a redesign yesterday. It updated its look and its ranking algorithms.

  • Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is launching a rival "fork" of Wikipedia called Citizendium. Read the introductory essay. [CNet]

  • SSIA: Oracle's Linux distro is nearing release. [The Register]