How the new Digg digs up its top stories — without your help, thank you very much

October 25, 2012 10:30 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

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?

News.me pulls app from App Store, makes Twitter the scapegoat

October 24, 2012 2:41 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

News.me announced Wednesday that it's shutting down the digital presses to focus on other things -- mainly remaking Digg into a desirable destination for news.

Survey says: No one is happy with the current state of Digg

July 24, 2012 11:19 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

“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 to be reborn on August 1

July 20, 2012 10:56 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

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 …

News.me hits the iPhone and builds out a social network for news

March 1, 2012 7:48 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

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 …