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Digg Founder Says Rupert Murdoch Is An Old, Barry Diller Is Savvy


The founder of Digg.com talks about sitting down with the heads of News Corp. and IAC in an interview on Big Think. "When I sat down with [Murdoch] it was a hand-holding process," says Kevin Rose, whose site is reportedly now being courted by Google. "When I sat down with Barry Diller, he was telling me about my business...it blew my mind." Rose is also amazed by Al Gore. More »

3:03 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Nick Douglas
2,362 views, 7 comments

Latest by Nick Douglas: I'm just mentally switching the words "Digg" and "Gawker" in all the comments. more »

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Julia Allison's New Mr. Big?

Time Out New York columnist Julia Allison's geeklust hardly began or ended with her romance to Vimeo founder and general crazy person Jakob Lodwick. Last year she and a friend flew out to Silicon Valley to find tech boyfriends, or at least a geek willing to tweak their websites, including by licking any security issues and biting the best new technologies. They also spent time with (shudder) TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington. The latest nerd on Allison's radar screen: Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com and friend to hot female journalists everywhere. Rose asked Allison out on a date a few months ago, then he maybe set her up with an account on his Twitter clone Pownce. Now Allison is at the Future Of Web Apps conference in South Beach, and it's not all "blunk drogging" and wearing bikinis: she's also been working the geek crowd, in particular Rose, according to one source, who writes she's been seen "partying and all up on Kevin Rose." Valleywag is hearing the same thing, and even has a couple of innocuous cell phone shots, one of which follows after the jump, along with some scenes of how Allison prepares for the brave future of the Web (hint: it involves many short skirts and bathing suits): More »

7:26 PM on Sun Mar 2 2008
By Ryan Tate
7,108 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: In 15 years, Julia's minute-by-minute Tumblr page is going to be a riot. Can't wait to see the dozens of pictures of her having her hair pulled out and patience tried by her little monsters inside her Suburban Mommy-Mobile. more »

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Wikipedia And Digg Are Exactly As They Seem, Damn It

It seems obvious that Web 2.0 is not as citizen-generated as people would like to believe. So obvious that Slate's recent article, "The Wisdom of the Chaperones," seems too mainstream for the usually contrarian site. Writer Chris Wilson imagines that Digg and Wikipedia are still seen as radical examples of the wisdom of the crowds, and reveals that they're run by a small base of power users. Of course, Slate is wrong. Call it banal, but the user-written news site and encyclopedia really are the work of thousands, even millions of casual users. More »

7:25 PM on Sat Feb 23 2008
By Nick Douglas
3,277 views, 20 comments

Latest by IndianSlipper: @keithldick: 87.532% of all statistics are made up. more »

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How The Internet's Biggest Social News Site Saved Itself (Again)

Kevin Rose started Digg specifically to give users the power to decide what's news. It must be a pain to see some of his top users quit the site and write an open letter charging him with "disregard for the Digg community," "lack of transparency," and "flagrant disrespect of top users." They were angry that a sudden change in the site had lessened their influence. This may seem like an intramural tiff, but these users are known for submitting thousands of stories to Digg, driving up to several hundred thousand visits to each story that makes the front page. Gawker Media alone owes millions of pageviews to Digg. And this isn't the first time top users have grumbled. So Rose and his CEO Jay Adelson made a surprisingly sensible move: Late last night, they chatted live with the disgruntled users. Here's why Rose frustrated his top users, why he bothered talking to them, and why it's a lesson for all online media. More »

1:58 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Nick Douglas
14,370 views, 63 comments

Latest by Hez: @Conbon: Coming from you, shouldn't it be "learn to purse"? more »