Wefollow's Klout-like scores for individuals' areas of expertise will be used in About.me's search algorithms. The Wefollow brand will eventually disappear entirely.
MG Siegler is leaving to become an investor at Google Ventures. We chatted with him about the move and what it means for his former firm CrunchFund.
The in-game video-sharing service Kamcord is expanding and discovering the power of celebrity endorsements.
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 …
Medium is a blogging platform of sorts. It comes from Obvious Corp., the app shop where Twitter founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are busy rolling out products for the social, web-connected masses.
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.
Editor's Pick Aside from the Google connection, Google Ventures and its partners are obviously different from anything else in their league in a few major ways -- how they pick startups, how they help build businesses, and how they manage risk.
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 …
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 …
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Community news sharing site Digg has been acquired by Betaworks, Digg CEO Matt Williams announced today in a company blog post.
Ordinarily, this would be a good thing, especially since the company has been making a serious attempt to sell …
Social fundraising startup Rally.org has raised $7.9 million in a first institutional round of funding.
The platform helps people to rally around causes they believe in. Anyone from individuals to large organizations can share their stories and raise money from …
Kevin Rose has joined tech giant Google’s venture capital firm Google Ventures as a partner, a spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat today.
Rose is perhaps best known as the founder of community news sharing site Digg as well as his time …
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In the past week, two high-profile mobile apps were effectively shut down and acquired – Hipster by Aol and Oink by Google. Both had big PR buildups, rave reviews from the tech press, and strong usage from the digerati.
What …
After social mobile application Oink was shut down on Wednesday, the company behind the app, Milk, put up a “download your data” option so that users to grab their content one last time. It seemed, however, you could grab just …
Tech entrepreneur Kevin Rose and several key people from startup incubator Milk have joined Google, confirming yesterday’s rumors.
“I’m beyond excited to announce that the Milk crew (Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, Chris Hutchins, Joshua Lane) is joining Google!,” Rose wrote …
At VentureBeat HQ, we’re twiddling our thumbs as we wait for official confirmation from Google that the search behemoth did, in fact, just hire Kevin Rose of Digg fame.
Our good pal Liz Gannes of AllThingsD reports that Rose and …
Let the squealing begin. Oink, the also-ran mobile ratings application from Internet celebrity Kevin Rose’s startup Milk, is heading to the slaughter house after just four months of existence.
Oink is being shut down as Milk shifts focus to other …
It’s time to get excited for The Crunchies Awards. The final line-up of notable guests has been released, making us all the more excited to co-host this star-studded event.
Harris Wittels, “Parks and Recreation” writer and all-around funny guy, will …
As photos become the new status update, we’re going to see big changes in the way people create, combine and consume words and images. The latest example is from a 500 Startups company called Tiny Review, which unites microblogging and …
