Dots has 3 million users in just a month, and they have played more than 250 million games.
Marco Arment's read-it-later darling is now owned by Digg owner Betaworks.
If this is success, I'm not sure what failure looks like.
Betaworks' latest is an effortless group photo-sharing app powered by hashtags.
Editor's Pick Discarded for pennies on the dollar, Digg has a new lease on life, but the rebuilt service is almost unrecognizable to those who loved it before. The new Digg is a single, compelling voice speaking for the Internet at large. But whose voice is it?
Guest Post
[Disclosure: VentureBeat has a contract with Amy Vernon for social media work. Below is a guest post she wrote for us.]
Perhaps the most hotly anticipated resurrection in Web 2.0 history was greeted today by a resounding “meh.”
No, really.…
Iconic social news sharing site Digg launched a completely revamped version of the service today, one day ahead of schedule.
Previously, Digg was focused almost entirely on allowing users to vote on community submitted URLs, with the best stuff rising …
Betaworks is showing off a preview of its forthcoming Digg v.1 redesign today, which looks much cleaner and less convoluted that the current version.
Originally launched in 2004, Digg was the first of the big community news sharing social networks, …
When the social news tool Digg relaunches next week — Wednesday to be exact — it will get help from a new product called Realtime, a search engine that surfaces links being shared the most across the Web.
Realtime is …
“We learned that no one is happy with the current state of Digg.”
Those are the words of Betaworks’ Jake Levine, now Digg’s general manager, on the conclusive feedback of thousands of people who responded to a survey on how …
Digg is dead. But keep an eye out on that grave, because new owner Betaworks plans to resuscitate the once famed social news site. The company will unveil its surgically remastered machination on August, 1, less than two weeks from …
Today in funding news, the numbers are all over the place. The Mayfield Fund finds itself with $1 million for every day of the year, while pioneer community news site Digg sold for 500 times less than once dreamt. There …
Four-year-old link shortening service Bitly is reportedly working on raising a $20 million funding round and launching a few new products. The startup has apparently also moved out of incubator Betaworks and into its own space, reports The Verge.
If …
Brooklyn Beta, a conference in New York focused on the intersection of design and development, is launching a new incubator today to connect those two classes of software creators.
The program, called Brooklyn Beta SummerCamp, has some big names behind …
As a struggling Chartbeat addict, I can tell you that watching the number of people flooding onto your site or story can be a rush. But like any great high, it fades too fast, especially when you can’t figure out …
News.me is a service from the New York-based innovation lab betaworks that filters users’ Twitter and Facebook streams to deliver them the most interesting stories they might have missed. It started out on the iPad only, but today it is …
Editor's Pick
One of the most interesting mobile apps to come out of the Occupy Wall Street protests was Vibe, created by Hazem Sayed, which allowed users to send anonymous messages in a tightly controlled distance. Betaworks recently bought the company, and …
Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the world… A …
SocialFlow, which helps brands and publishers optimize their performance across Facebook and Twitter, is launching its self-service platform today. The company has had a banner year, growing from just 2 employees to more than 30 and graduating from the betaworks building to their own office on the east side of Manhattan.
To get a sense of how the company works, let's take the example from one of their clients, The Economist. With SocialFlow, which guides which messages The Economist puts out to its followers and when, the venerable publishers has grown its social media fanbase five times faster than average and increased engagement with its audience at a rate eight times greater than before it used Social Flow.
Digital studio Betaworks is all about the real time web, so how’s this for speed? It took the company less than a year to generate a return on the $20 million it raised last March. Over the weekend PandoDaily reported …
