Happy New Year! For Auld Lang Syne ! Have you thought of a New Year's Resolution? Do you have big plans and need the tools to help you accomplish your goals? With more than 8,000 very active subreddits, reddit can help you get and stay on the right track. For those of you who have created goals )and for those of you looking for resolutions(, below are some places to start on your road to an awesome 2012.

Last Tuesday, Elizabeth Tobey of 2K Games invited 8 San Francisco redditors up to their studio to preview their upcoming game, " The Darkness II ." We had no idea what was in store for us, but we were ready to get going. The studio is up in Novato, about 45 minutes away from reddit HQ, so 2K kindly sent someone to pick us up " in style. As redditors, we reserved the right to go a little "Socially Awkward Penguin" for the first few minutes of the ride,

Before we announce our newest Free Ad campaign, we'd like to give you a brief follow up on how the Nonprofit Organization campaign we held in September turned out. In just over two weeks, we gave away more than 250 free advertisements for anyone advertising for their favorite non-profit , equaling a grand total of $27,300 of ad space! The genres of campaigns ranged from Disaster Relief to Education , Health to Community Awareness , Fighting Poverty , Environmental Protection ,

Ever since last year's amazing DC Rally & party , we at reddit have been discussing having a convention-redditcon, if you will. I have met with convention planners and have been told what it takes to make a large convention happen, and it is a gargantuan undertaking. What we want to know now is this: are you all interested in attending a convention where you can meet fellow redditors, participate in fun activities, and help the surrounding community?

More than 30,000 of you heeded the call for the Who in the World is reddit Survey . The results are in and we'd like to share what we've learned with our fellow redditors. Click here for the data )big thanks to our buddy for cleaning the data for us!(. Please share any of your own analysis and feel free to slice & dice the data any way you see fit. What type of cheese is most popular amongst someone whose favorite sub-reddit is r/anarchism? Feta.

Today we're very excited to announce a new addition to the team, a new position for an existing member, and the triumphant return of an old friend! First things first, we have found the first of our new hires! Max Goodman, aka Chromakode is joining the reddit team full-time. Max has been working with us for a long time; you probably know Max as a reddit moderator and the developer of reddit's first browser plugin, Socialite . Like all reddit admins, he's a longtime,

I was on hand at Comic-Con 2011 to ask celebrities questions from you, the reddit community " all thanks to a sponsorship by Bing . We grabbed celebrities from the WIRED Cafe and had them answer your AMA questions. We shot for three questions from each celebrity. However time was tight, so some videos contain just one answer )and we gave them their choice of which of the three questions they would answer(.

Here at reddit, we like to make a big deal about April Fools Day. In years past, we've ██████ ed forbidden words, given the site a horrendous rebranding , and even made everybody an admin . Of course, those all turned out to be hoaxes. This year, there won't be any deception. In fact, we're going to announce our prank three days in advance. It's a new service we'd like to call "reddit mold", and it's going to be a real thing.

Here at reddit, we're built on top of a ton of ridiculously awesome open source technologies . In the three years since the original open source release )the 3rd anniversary is on Friday(, we've been surprised and delighted by the myriad projects powered by reddit and using the reddit API . Over the past few months, Neil ) spladug ( has been hard at work updating, documenting, and migrating the open source reddit project to a new home, thanks to our friends at GitHub .

It's a scary world out there. It takes courage to share anything intimate with the online world these days and even more to offer yourself up to a huge audience saying " ask me anything ." This past week three IAMA posts received so many points & comments that they are in our top ten of all time : Lucidending , Ken Jennings , Congressman Garamendi , and one from a 4-year old , which also received thousands of comments. The IAMA reddit ,

I'm happy to announce a new release of Socialite , an official reddit extension for Firefox. Socialite provides a souped-up version of the reddit toolbar, making it easy to vote on and save pages you find via reddit. The new version has been updated to work with Firefox 4 and takes advantage of the latest reddit API updates. Also new in this release comes optional new message notifications, which can be enabled in the preferences.

)"blue orange" by scrapygraphics ( This year's April Fools' prank, reddit mold , was enjoyable, challenging, and sometimes frustrating . But in real life, we'd all be really grossed out. Seriously, have you seen that dog vomit slime mold? Spores were given out throughout the day to progressively larger groups. At first, reddit gold subscribers each received a spore. Next, active submitters and commenters got a spore the first time they visited. Finally,

If you've been reading reddit regularly )and who hasn't?( you've probably heard about the backscatter X-ray machines that are being deployed to airports across the United States. As of this month, the rules have gotten stricter than ever. In a nutshell, anyone passing through a backscatter-enabled security checkpoint has a choice: Let a TSA agent see through your clothes, or let a TSA agent touch your most intimate areas.

Last Friday , we introduced reddit gold "creddits", which are essentially one-month gift certificates you can bestow upon deserving redditors. Over the weekend, we included three creddits as a bonus to anyone who signed up for a year of gold. The test went well, with hundreds of months being given and hundreds of redditors getting to try gold for the first time. And today, we've added creddits to the reddit gold shoppe . They're the same price as regular subscriptions: $3.

We did some Google Analytics mining. Here are the number of visits to reddit in the last 30 days from a certain selection of countries: Brazil 160,587 Mexico 157,811 Russia 124,020 Malaysia 89,447 Israel 80,547 Argentina 79,447 Iceland 77,934 Turkey 75,804 Croatia 67,823 Greece 64,590 What do these places all have in common? Not a single one of their citizens has ever sent us a postcard. Shame on you, —lº»µ¹¿½. Cat got your tongue, 75@68=A:? Did you break your arm,

The Danger Room team )Noah Shachtman, Katie Drummond, & Spencer Ackerman( are all in NYC next week and were gracious enough to agree to spend some time answering your top ten questions about military technology, national security, and anything else. This will be a video interview and we'll ask them the top questions as of 9am EST on October 20th. Ask them anything HERE . About Noah Shachtman Noah Shachtman keeps finding himself in stupid situations,

Last week you requested someone who worked on Watson over in IAMA , and IBM Watson Research team was game to answer your top questions about Watson, how it was developed and how IBM plans to use it in the future . Below are answers to your top 10 questions, along with some bonus common ones as well. Thanks for taking the time to answer, Watson Team ! - 1. Could you give an example of a question )or question style( that Watson always struggled with?

We're less than a day away from the rally, and Washington has turned into reddit central. We met a redditor on our plane, sitting right in front of us. We saw a group of redditors in t-shirts at baggage claim, excitedly exchanging QR codes . And the local football team announced that they're changing their name to the Washington Reddits. One of the preceding sentences is not true. If you missed Wednesday's rally update , go read that first. It turns out that,

A few months ago, ketralnis came up with an interesting idea: When we have unused ad space, why not use it for something nice? It's a way of saying thanks to our community, it's an incentive to turn off AdBlock ) here's how to do that, if you'd like to see what you've been missing (, and it changes the ad box from "The Horrible Commercialism Zone that nobody ever wants to look at" to "A sometimes commercial, often funny, usually amusing part of reddit.

We've come a long way since our distress call two months ago. These days, reddit's firing all all cylinders in more ways that I care to provide citations for, and it's thanks, foremost, to all of you. Your support has not just come not just in the form of reddit gold subscriptions, but also some really nice care packages. As you can see above, nobody on team reddit is going to need to buy mac-and-cheese for approximately the next eight and a half years.