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Fortune’s Invite only conference Brainstorm adds Neil Young plus Viacom and Verizon CEOs

It is invite only and has a stellar lineup of speakers: FORTUNE magazine announced today that Neil Young , singer, songwriter, and musician; Philippe Dauman , President and CEO, Viacom Inc.; and Ivan Seidenberg , Chairman and CEO, Verizon Communications Inc.; are confirmed to speak at the FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH Conference, being held July 21-23, 2008 in Half Moon Bay, California. The conference will convene the magazine industry’s top technology, media, and Internet editorial talent with the leaders and influencers of the digital world to look at the future of the tech business…. Young recently released an anthology in a series of Blu-ray Discs that use Java technology to give the viewer sophisticated ways of interacting with the content. Dauman and Seidenberg will participate in a panel hosted by FORTUNE Managing Editor Andy Serwer entitled, “Titans of Digital Transformation.”… Young, Dauman, and Seidenberg are joined by an impressive slate of confirmed speakers, including: Danah Boyd , Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Michael Dell , Chairman and CEO, Dell Inc.; Loic Le Meur , CEO, Seesmic; and Leah Jamieson , John A…. Jamieson will lead a discussion on whether our education system hampers innovation by not changing engineering curriculum to focus on more creative skills vs. technical skills. The FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH Conference is an invitation-only event which will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, California , and will be comprised of a mix of one-on-one interviews with FORTUNE editors, panel discussions, small-group roundtables, and working lunch labs.

Reddit Goes Open Source

When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we’re inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site…. In no particular order, here’s a quick list of the open source products that reddit is built and runs upon: Debian, lighttpd, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Slony-I, various python libraries, Psychopg, pylons, Solr, Tomcat, Ganglia, Mercurial, Git, gettext (translation), daemontools, and memcached.