How to make a viral video
Guest Post People share for two major reasons: “a) they altruistically want to share the enjoyment of that video with others or b) they selfishly want to be seen sharing or critiquing that video.”
Digg pokes up its head and says, ‘I’m not dead yet’
January 10, 2013 2:38 PM
John Koetsier
If this is success, I'm not sure what failure looks like.
Friendster’s founder ditches social networks for social news
September 13, 2012 3:45 PM
Christina Farr
Jonathan Abrams' new startup, Nuzzel, is a slick, well-designed social news aggregator that pulls together all the hot stories from your Twitter feed.
Shiny new Digg v.1 relaunch goes live
July 31, 2012 6:12 PM
Tom Cheredar
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 …
Digg relaunch preview: Betaworks may understand the site far better than Digg ever did
July 30, 2012 1:01 PM
Tom Cheredar
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, …
Digg relaunch will draw from Realtime, a new search engine for hot links
July 28, 2012 3:27 PM
Matt Marshall
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 …
Survey says: No one is happy with the current state of Digg
July 24, 2012 11:19 AM
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
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 …
Is Digg done? Site in acquisition talks with Washington Post, CNN
May 1, 2012 6:10 AM
Tom Cheredar
Community news sharing site Digg is rumored to be in acquisition talks with the Washington Post and possibly others, sources familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.
Serious negotiations with the Washington Post have been going on almost a month, but …
Facebook resuscitates Digg, traffic up 35%
February 24, 2012 4:16 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again. The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation.
Digg’s pageviews jumped 35 percent in January, and the struggling company saw …
Yahoo announces the death of Buzz on April 21, but nobody cares
As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21.
But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact …
Condé Nast's $500M Web shopping spree
‘Tis the season, right?
Condé Nast, the owner of publications like tech magazine Wired and social news aggregation site Reddit, announced today it has raised a $500 million fund and brought in Andrew Siegel, a former Yahoo mergers and acquisitions …
Are there any developers left who care about Digg's new 'Streaming API?'
News aggregator site Digg has announced it unveiled a new “streaming API” (Application Programming Interface) that the company hopes will save it from declining traffic and community involvement.
“Today we’re releasing a new API feature which we hope will ease …
New Digg CEO apologizes to site's fans
Some six weeks after he was hired to be the new chief executive of news aggregator Digg.com, Matt Williams greeted community members for the first time today, apologized for the site’s botched attempt at a redesign, and announced officially that …
Sad news hits the airwaves: Layoffs at NPR
It’s a sad day. We saw Yahoo! go through its second mass layoff in under a year. And now it’s being reported that National Public Radio — of which shows including All Things Considered, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…
Digg revamps profiles — introduces feeds, copies Facebook
Digg, the popular news-ranking site that is trying to extend its popular beyond its young geek-oriented audience, has significantly revamped its user profile section. The changes are aimed to give the service much more of a community feel, letting you …
