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?
- ernexbcn0
The new Digg is live (version 1) http://www.digg.com
- 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.
- 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.
- ernexbcn0
Yup, they are iterating and releasing fast.
- 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.