Digg delivers automatically curated news content with new Newsrooms
News aggregation site Digg unveiled Newsrooms today, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content on specific topics like technology or politics.
Here’s how it works: Digg takes content from a number of sites it curates, such as tech news blogs and news sites, and adds it directly to the “Newswire” in each Newsroom. Digg ranks those stories by how new they are and how much of a “signal” they have … Continue Reading
Condé Nast spins off Reddit. “Nothing is off-limits,” says co-founder
Publishing corporation Condé Nast has spun off news aggregator Reddit.com into a fully-owned subsidiary that will operate autonomously from the company, the site announced today.
Reddit is still owned by Advanced Publishing, which owns Condé Nast, but Advance will not be directly involved with day-to-day activities as Condé Nast was, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told VentureBeat. Condé Nast will also make an investment in Reddit, he said. Ohanian will now serve as a member of … Continue Reading
Founder Kevin Rose is so totally over Digg
It looks like Kevin Rose isn’t taking his departure from news aggregator Digg so badly.
Rose said on Twitter Thursday that he doesn’t even use aggregators like Digg as part of his online reading habits. Which is peculiar, given that he founded one of the first and most popular news aggregation sites in the world.
“My tech news reading behaviors have changed,” he said on his Twitter account. “I click @techmeme browse their tweets, then … Continue Reading
Tech readers swept up in web buzz around Osama bin Laden takedown
The story about Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s takedown has skyrocketed to the top of news aggregation sites like Condé Nast’s Reddit — showing that even tech geeks are rushing behind what might be one of the highest trafficked stories on the web of all time.
Reports poured in indicating that Bin Laden was killed in a CIA operation in Pakistan, a report U.S. President Barack Obama later confirmed in a live broadcast. The … Continue Reading
Kevin Rose's newest mobile app development gig: Milk
It looks like Digg founder Kevin Rose has found his rebound start-up after breaking up with Digg just about two weeks ago — a web application development lab called Milk.
Milk doesn’t seem like a traditional incubator (they usually offer guidance, mentorship and a little bit of seed funding to get started). Instead it will be a place where developers can bring in an interesting idea and quickly turn it into some kind of operational … Continue Reading
Kevin Rose resigns from Digg
Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company.
Rose has begun working on a separate startup that is already close to completing an initial round of funding, according to TechCrunch. Rose launched Digg in 2004. He always shied away from being a direct leader of Digg, instead hiring Jay Adelson (who later got the boot) and most recently … Continue Reading
Reddit, the Web's new watercooler, hits 1 billion pageviews
Condé Nast-owned news aggregator Reddit announced today that the site had more than 1 billion pageviews in January.
But Reddit’s growth didn’t just come from the site’s typical role as a news aggregator. Reddit’s sub-communities, which focus on a specific topic or theme, have become increasingly popular as well.
It seems Reddit isn’t necessarily just about bringing news to its community members any more. That function is still a very large part of the site, … Continue Reading
Online news gatherer Topix aims for election-ad dollars
With its launch of Election 2010: Citizen Sound-Off today, online news aggregator Topix is now the only website to couple localized voter information with a platform for open participation. But can it channel this big election into even bigger ad dollars?
Topix is a privately held online platform that aggregates news by crawling over 50,000 news, government and blog sites every 10 minutes, and then localizing and categorizing that news “semantically” for every town in … Continue Reading
Social news-reader Summify raises funds to solve information overload
Have you ever opened your RSS reader and felt like you’re gazing into the abyss at the gazillion unread items? Have you felt the guilty satisfaction of using the “Mark all as read” option? If so, Summify, a startup based in Vancouver, Canada, might be the answer to your prayers.
Fresh out of startup incubator Bootup Labs, Summify has just announced an undisclosed seed round of funding from Boris Wertz of W Media Ventures, an … Continue Reading
News aggregator BuzzFeed nets $3.5 million in funding
Have you ever opened your RSS reader and felt like you’re gazing into the abyss at the gazillion unread items? Have you felt the guilty satisfaction of using the “Mark all as read” option? If so, Summify, a startup based in Vancouver, Canada, might be the answer to your prayers.
Fresh out of startup incubator Bootup Labs, Summify has just announced an undisclosed seed round of funding from Boris Wertz of W Media Ventures, an … Continue Reading
