Digg sold for 500k
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- animatedgif0
Pintrest + News was the inspiration for the new design then
- ukit20
I prefer to get my news at Newstoday™
- utopian0
I like.
- ernexbcn0
Yup, they are iterating and releasing fast.
- inteliboy0
Will I be able to comment on stories at launch?
At launch, v1 will not include a commenting system. When Digg was founded in 2004, it was one of the only places on the web to have a conversation with like-minded people. Today, conversations happen everywhere, and the problem that Digg started to solve in 2004 now has no shortage of solutions. We knew that if we were going to support commenting at launch, we had to do it right, and we knew that we couldn’t do it right in six weeks. In the coming weeks we will conduct a few experiments in commenting that will inform more permanent features.
- inteliboy0
Will I be able to comment on stories at launch?
At launch, v1 will not include a commenting system. When Digg was founded in 2004, it was one of the only places on the web to have a conversation with like-minded people. Today, conversations happen everywhere, and the problem that Digg started to solve in 2004 now has no shortage of solutions. We knew that if we were going to support commenting at launch, we had to do it right, and we knew that we couldn’t do it right in six weeks. In the coming weeks we will conduct a few experiments in commenting that will inform more permanent features.
- inteliboy0
^ I like it! Wow.
Though it needs comments, not just tumblr/twitter/FB likes. Without a comment system it just feels like any other blog.
- ernexbcn0
The new Digg is live (version 1) http://www.digg.com
- ernexbcn0
They just sold what's left (domain name, etc.) for half a million, they sold other assets earlier for more than 10 million dollars.
- utopian0
Dumbfuck should of sold to Google for $200,000,000.
I guess that it is back to his mom's basement once again!
- sublocked0
i never really got into digg. i fell off that whole genre of site after my interest in slashdot died circa 1998/9
- GeorgesII0
I blame version4 for ruining digg,
it really was horrendous + that whole power users debacle didn't help too
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- vwsung18t0
he's made some good decisions since and works for google anyway
- dbloc0
idiot for not selling.