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...The rival site has been seen in some quarters as a likely beneficiary of the turmoil at Reddit, in much the same way that Reddit itself took over from an earlier community news site, Digg....
...Betaworks, which purchased Digg, faces a significant challenge, wrote Erin Griffith of PandoDaily....
...But facing competitive and internal challenges, Digg’s star waned....
...There is no venture capital firm involved, but individual investors include Hosain Rahman, the founder of Jawbone, Jay Adelson, founder of Digg and Joe Greenstein, founder of Flixster....
...Digg, a social content aggregation website, declined 19 per cent to $83m....
...Digg, the user-generated review site, worth $170m earlier in the year, is now valued at just $102m. The value of Zynga, the social games company, declined 8.2 per cent, from $4.8bn to $4.4bn....
...In other Apple speculation, Digg founder Kevin Rose blogged his general excitement about a revamped AppleTV, currently an orphan that many believe is the next big priority for Steve Jobs....
...The 43-year-old grew up in Berkeley, California, and is an angel investor in internet companies including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm and Ning....
...The “like” button will be similar to products from Twitter and Digg that let users share content with their social networks....
...It is de rigueur for news websites to be embedded with devices that automatically publish articles to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and to content sharing websites such as Digg and StumbleUpon...
...Over the past four years they have made 45 personal investments in start-ups, including micro-blogging service Twitter, news site Digg and mobile headset maker Jawbone....
...Typing “Google outage” in OneRiot, a “real-time” search engine that launched this week, produces a mixture of headlines and stories referenced from tweets and Digg recommendations....
...It also unveiled content deals with Current TV, the Digg recommendation service and Tumblr microblogging service....
...Digg, StumbleUpon’s main competitor, continues to dominate online content recommendations....
...Four years after its launch, Digg remains one of the most popular news sites on the web....
...It is at least partly based on techniques used by social networking sites such as Facebook and Digg. Letting users try applications before they are completely finished is a nod to Google’s methods....
...It was given a certain cachet by Kevin Rose, who co-founded it and had already co-founded the popular Digg news site....
...Based on the sort of voting mechanism used by Digg.com, the online news service, visitors to the site have decided that his top priority should be to “seriously invest in alternate fuels”....
...He showed its Digg clone, Buzz, as an example of how Yahoo was open with content....
...Thomas Hawk, the photographer and blogger tells me he uses FriendFeed for search the way he used to use Digg, the news recommendation site....
...It appeared just once as a top-10 story on Reddit, and not at all on Digg and Del.icio.us, the study found....
...The tech sites Almost 1,000 members of the hyper-active community-based news website Digg had ‘dug’ the story within an hour of it appearing on the site’s front page. Their response was mixed....
...He wrote to users on Digg’s weblog: “You’ve made it clear....
...She cited how six months ago she surveyed videos being referenced by Digg members and found nine out of 10 were sourced from YouTube. Now only one out of 10 were from Google’s $1.65bn acquisition....
...But that hasn’t prevented blogger Robert Scoble from joining PodTech to film the zeitgeist nor Kevin Rose, Digg founder, from setting up web TV network Revision3....
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