Digg sold for 500k
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- sikma0
Amazing considering it's a ghost town.
- Melanie0
That sucks so bad for Kevin.
- qoob0
- jfletcher0
Perhaps this can be the start of the next dotcom burst... thank god. Maybe next time people will remember... "oh yeah, business plan, we actually need one of those."
- ETM0
Hadn't Kevin already pretty much cashed out? He's barely involved with Digg and moved onto work for Google and a few smaller projects of his own.
- inteliboy0
kevin is a celeb, he'll be fine
http://www.qbn.com/topics/355817…actually used to listen to diggnation - kevin rose and that alex guy were pretty funny. internet likes to hate ofcourse.
- oey0
what's digg?
is it good?
is it real good?
- dbloc0
idiot for not selling.
- vwsung18t0
he's made some good decisions since and works for google anyway
- ETM0
By that time, was it Kevin's deal to make. By then Digg had investors, a board, management. There were also a lot of issues with CEO Jay Adelson in 2009/2010, around the time Kevin started to withdraw from the project more.
But the poor guy is doing fine. Google paid $15 million to acquire him and his team at Milk. That startup was maybe around for a year.
- georgesIII0
the fame
- Hombre_Lobo0
Kevin knows what he's doing, mans a genius.
Did Reddit just copy Digg completely and somehow get more popular? Site format is so similar.
- hmmm noGeorgesII
- copied slashdot more than digganimatedgif
- ahh slashdot.Hombre_Lobo
- inteliboy0
Yeah, though just like Digg had an idea of how to improve on Slashdot, Reddit had an idea on how to improve Digg.
Was a really nice site in it's prime though they did stupid stuff to try and make it earn money to keep the investors banking. I'm surprised it died so severely, for a moment there it felt like it was going to become THE content aggregator for the web - in an alternate universe Digg is built into iOS just like twitter and FB.
- GeorgesII0
I blame version4 for ruining digg,
it really was horrendous + that whole power users debacle didn't help too
- sublocked0
i never really got into digg. i fell off that whole genre of site after my interest in slashdot died circa 1998/9
