valleywag.com - 12/21/2008
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Perhaps Digg really is the future of the news business. The headline-discussion site, once an icon of the Web 2.0 movement, is losing millions of dollars a year. BusinessWeek's Spencer Ante got ahold of Digg's financial statements . They are frightful, even for a startup. Last year, the ...
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valleywag.gawker.com - 12/27/2008
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kevin rose Digg Founder Wants to Date Jennifer
Aniston Kevin Rose , the boyish founder of Digg,
a testosterone-soaked news-discussion site, has resolved to "date someone seriously" in 2009. Specifically, he plans to woo Marley & Me star Jennifer ...
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techcrunch.com - 12/21/2008
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So Business Week gets their hands on Digg’s
financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues
of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million. That ...
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Digg’s Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An ...
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Today in Links: Digg, Terror and Business Models
SiliconBeat » O’Brien —
I’m always interested in the future of news, for personal and professional reasons. But I found this story about Digg to be particularly interesting. Can it be true that the Web 2.0 icon is doing this poorly as a business?
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... . And remember, that loss is after the advertising deal with Microsoft. Digg’s current valuation is $167 million according to a BusinessWeek source, which is ...
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The Building of a Better Digg Commences
webpronews.com 1/29/2009 — Just before the New Year, Digg Founder Kevin Rose put up his list of New Year's resolutions . Third on that list was: "Build a Better Digg." Less than a month into 2009, the site appears to be on that track. read more
Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union
techcrunch.com 4/21/2009 —
Last week I sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to get the Digg “State of the Union.” The company, now more than four years old, has continued to grow incredibly since launching in late 2004 and regularly innovates with new ...
Did Digg Really Improve Their Ad Targeting?
centernetworks.com 1/4/2009 —
Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider has an investigative post today where he analyzed the advertising that is running on Digg. At the end of his investigation, he noted that Digg is clearly running targeted ads now because he viewed ads that ...
Digg's Miserable Business
alleyinsider.com 12/20/2008 — BusinessWeek got ahold of social news site Digg's financials.
For a site that gets as much traffic as Digg.com does -- 22.6 million monthly uniques, according to Quantcast -- the numbers are gruesome:
Last year the company lost $2.8 million on ...
SXSW: Digg's Rose and Adelson Talk About Diggbar, New Features
blog.wired.com 3/18/2009 —
Digg CEO Jay Adelson (top left) and Founder and Chief Architect Kevin Rose (top right).
Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com
AUSTIN, Texas -- Social news sharing site Digg is one of the web's top crowdsourcing success stories. By letting its ...
USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
latimesblogs.latimes.com 3/6/2009 —
USocial is gaming popular social bookmarking sites, including Digg. Credit: uSocial
Among Digg's and StumbleUpon's tens of millions of users, the social bookmarking sites have successfully dealt with numerous troublemakers who try to ...
Jealous Of StumbleUpon’s Success, Digg Is Developing Of Web Toolbar
pulse2.com 2/27/2009 —
If I had to choose between StumbleUpon and Digg about whether I believe one is more valuable, I would definetely choose StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon suggests different content to every one of their users using an algorithm that is based on interests. ...
DiggBar Digs up Bitter Nostalgia Among Critics
blog.wired.com 4/4/2009 —
Digg's new URL-shortening feature is aggregating as much controversy for the popular web site as it is traffic.
Critics
are taking aim at the structure of DiggBar — a toolbar appearing at the
top of a browser when users click a link at Digg. ...
Why is Digg.com Taking the “Social” out of Social Media?
searchenginejournal.com 3/18/2009 — It seems that over the past several months, Digg has been waging a war against it’s own users and alienating the very people who have helped Digg to achieve its current level of success.
Since it’s never fair to make accusations without ...
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