Digg sold for 500k 3131 Responses

Last post: 10 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jul 12, 12, 5:33 p.m.

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• qoob

  

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…

  Pretty sad, considering the millions that were invested.

  Jul 12, 12, 5:33 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  Amazing considering it's a ghost town.

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:35 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  

  
  http://www.qbn.com/topics/671758…

  • Congratulations– qoob

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:35 p.m. – Permalink

• Melanie

  That sucks so bad for Kevin.

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:39 p.m. – Permalink

• benfal99

  Google wanted to buy them for 200,000,000$ and Digg said ''NO!''

  LOL

  • < back in 2008 i think– benfal991/2

    he can turn that 60 mill into 200 mil easily– 74LEO2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:40 p.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:40 p.m. – Permalink

• qoob

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/355817…

  Hmmm

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:44 p.m. – Permalink

• jfletcher

  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."

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:46 p.m. – Permalink

• ETM

  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.

  • <– inteliboy

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 5:58 p.m. – Permalink

• inteliboy

  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.

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 6:01 p.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  • Epic– d_rek1/2

    Very amusing!– riskunlogic2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 6:06 p.m. – Permalink

• oey

  what's digg?
  is it good?
  is it real good?

  • nuff said
    – MrT1/2

    not as good as pushit.– 74LEO2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 6:06 p.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  idiot for not selling.

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 8 p.m. – Permalink

• vwsung18t

  he's made some good decisions since and works for google anyway

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 8:05 p.m. – Permalink

• ETM

  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.

  • = deal to make?– ETM

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 9:40 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  the fame
  

  

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 10:59 p.m. – Permalink

• Hombre_Lobo

  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 no– GeorgesII1/3

    copied slashdot more than digg– animatedgif2/3

    ahh slashdot.– Hombre_Lobo3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 11:44 p.m. – Permalink

• inteliboy

  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.

  

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  Dog-earJul 12, 12, 11:59 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12…

  $16m

  

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  Dog-earJul 13, 12, 1:18 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  I blame version4 for ruining digg,
  it really was horrendous + that whole power users debacle didn't help too

  

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  Dog-earJul 13, 12, 1:23 a.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  i never really got into digg. i fell off that whole genre of site after my interest in slashdot died circa 1998/9

  

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  Dog-earJul 13, 12, 1:47 a.m. – Permalink