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Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1

Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1One word... Yawn... nt,naiveté is no excuseKevin said: "This was the first time that anyone experimented with allowing the general mass audience to decide what they believed to be the most important topic of the day."Dear Kevin,I think your idea with...

Tags: Digg-founder Kevin Rose, Part 1, naiveté

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

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News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who’s buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?

Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?diggable ads?Great article, Digg is a great site, it provides article people will find relevant and or interesting. I do question if the diggable ads will bring in more users and revenue.RE: Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?fake rolex watch ...

Tags: Digg, advertisement, Kevin Rose

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Handicapping Apple's September 9 event (updated)

Now that it's official that Apple will be holding a special "Let's Rock" media event in San Francisco on Tuesday let's take a look under the curtain to see what announcements may be in store from Cupertino. It's pretty apparent that new iPods are in the offing,...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Kevin Rose, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-03

4G iPod nano rumored to have GPS (updated)

Is this the much-rumored fourth-generation iPod nano? On Friday Digg's Kevin Rose posted a rumor about a "revamp of the entire iPod" coming in the next 2-3 weeks. In addition to iTunes 8 and iPhone firmware 2.1 Rose predicts that the entire iPod family will receive "fairly...

Tags: 4G, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, GPS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-24

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says community

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says communitywonder if once they sell it.. if someone will sue them.Seems the logical choice.. hey they have money.. lets sue them.Course if the users revolt again, you could have people stop using it.They have to be very careful with how they handle this. Me...

Tags: Digg

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google?

Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google?Who cares?Now that it got transformed into a video/picture/politics site and has left its roots as a tech organization, let MySpace have it.I speak somewhat tongue in cheek. Digg has gone down hill and the signal to noise ratio isn't worth measuring any...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Digg, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Who should buy Digg? Nobody, says community

Digg is reportedly up for sale, with Microsoft, Google and two unnamed media companies putting the social news site through due diligence. The price tag being somewhere in the 200+ million ball park, offering co-founders Rose and Adelson the exit strategy many suspect they've craved for months. ...

Tags: Digg, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Digg: Better off with Microsoft or Google?

Digg is reportedly for sale with the leading bidders being Microsoft, Google and two media companies. The big question: What's best for Digg and its community? TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Microsoft are in a bidding war for Digg with a price tag in the $200...

Tags: Google Inc., TechCrunch, Digg, Microsoft Corp., Times, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Digg town hall meeting is over - fighting spam answers all questions

As promised, Digg held its first "town hall" meeting yesterday via UStream, and although it was fun to see founders Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose answer questions in front of a camera -- laptops in hand, Diggnation style -- we didn't really learn much new. Almost all...

Tags: Digg, Cyberthreats, Spam, Engineering, Security, Spam And Phishing, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Digg "townhall" meeting this Monday - what's on the agenda?

Last month, the social news site Digg faced a mini-revolt, following changes to its story promotion algorithm which made it harder for top diggers to achieve a front page success. (Top diggers are those whose story submissions most frequently get promoted onto the site's front page.) During...

Tags: Digg, Engineering, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Yahoo supports OpenID; MySpace leads Facebook; Digg Reel launches

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… MySpace still leading Facebook for U.S. traffic. Not surprising to me, but Hiwise has released stats on social networking site visits in the U.S. The short...

Tags: Facebook, Digg, Yahoo! Inc., MySpace, Social Networking, Authentication/Encryption, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-17

News to know: iPhones relocked; Vista SP1 gallery; Facebook; DEMOfall 07

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple to nuke unlocked iPhones with next update. Garett Rogers: Google launches 2 apps for the iPhone. Russell Shaw: Nine steps to hopefully re-lock your iPhone. Techmeme. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Windows Vista SP1 (build 6001.16659). Gallery right. ...

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Nescape's "digg" experiment put on hold; old-style portal returns

TechCrunch has predicted it for weeks, and despite consistent denials from AOL's management, the new digg-style Netscape.com will be no more. Instead the site will soon be switched over to a more traditional portal, a preview of which can be seen here. Announcing the decision on the...

Tags: TechCrunch, Netscape Communications Corp., Portal, Nescape, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Microsoft lands Digg ad deal

Microsoft and Digg announced a three year ad partnership that usurps Google ads. Under the three-year arrangement, Microsoft will sell and serve ads on Digg. Digg's Kevin Rose in a blog post says the pact will allow the company to focus on design and adding new features. Microsoft and Digg...

Tags: Web Technology, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-07-25

News to know: Best hard drives; Wi-Fi's dead end; Microsoft CRM Live

Notable headlines:Robin Harris: Who makes the best hard drives?Ryan Naraine: Ex-Softies launch anti-malware start-up.George Ou: Why 2.4 GHz is a dead end for Wi-Fi.Ryan Naraine: Microsoft drops 6 bulletins, fixing 11 vulnerabilities. Microsoft bulletin.Command injection flaw found in IE--or is it Firefox? Richard Stiennon: Your DBA has his/her hand in...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Pownce launches in a post-email era

Kevin Rose (of Digg-fame) launched his new startup, Pownce, last month, which some have described as a potential Twitter-killer. And while the application can be used in a Twitter-like fashion, with its micro-blogging functionality, I think it's more an attempt to bridge the gap between asynchronous and Instant Messaging, in...

Tags: Twitter, Social Networks, Social Bookmarking, Instant Messenger, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Digg: What does it really stand for?

Is Digg’s Kevin Rose really defiantly standing up to the man, the other man, that is, in his now infamous rallying cry to his million strong band of Diggers of other people’s content: “If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”Are Rose and partner Jay...

Tags: Digg, Copyright

Blog posts 2007-05-03

OnHollywood: Kevin Rose--'If they sue us, they sue us'

OnHollywood: Kevin Rose--'If they sue us, they sue us'This Is TOTALLY StupidThe hex code is all over the place now, posted in all tech boards from Slashdot to Geek to Techrepublic....so is the MPAA going to sue everyone?You're finished, kaput, done MPAA..you have lost the battle and the war.Don't let...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, OnHollywood, Kevin Rose, Digg

Discussion threads 2007-05-02