Web users are really hankering for a replacement to Google Reader -- but Digg wants to give them so much more.
If this is success, I'm not sure what failure looks like.
The things these aging apps will do to keep our interest... Here's who went under the knife in 2012 -- and whether it worked.
Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose’s longtime co-conspirator from Digg and ill-fated mobile shop Milk, has just joined the team at Google Ventures.
“Very excited to announce our latest Design Partner @GoogleVentures, @dburka!” Rose tweeted.
A Google Ventures spokesperson tells VentureBeat, “Daniel …
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?
Editor's Pick "I want to find the next Facebook when it's just Mark Zuckerberg."
That statement from Kevin Rose pretty much sums up his life's ambition these days. The Diggnation poster boy of yore is gone, and a young VC ravenous for the Next Big Thing has taken his place.
Guest Post The platform you choose may determine the fate of your business. Instead of relying upon other people's platforms, why not build, control, and own your own?
Ouya has raised nearly $8.6M in support of its free-to-play, Android-based console.
Digg founder turned venture capitalist Kevin Rose announced yesterday that he would participate in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA), which, like the name indicates, invites Reddit users to ask him anything.
That was over 12 hours ago, and Rose …
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[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 …
Yes, folks its another VBWeekly, and our regular VBWeekly host Jolie O’Dell was out on assignment, so VentureBeat’s executive Editor Dylan Tweney has stepped in to take you through the stories of the week. And we have stories; running from …
We reject the blogosphere’s new admonition to hot indie startups: “Don’t do a Digg.” In Kevin Rose’s defense, he is not the first founder to reject an inflated acquisition offer, only to see the company sell years later for a …
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Despite being the co-founder of one of the biggest and most highly active discussion forums on the Internet, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian is a pretty modest dude.
And when I say Reddit is “highly active” I mean it generates over 2 …
While community news sharing site Digg may have sold for the low price of $500,000, its other assets may have fetched a bit more.
Professional social network Linkedin is said to have purchased some key patents from Digg just prior …
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 …
