Normally when a website relaunches after a drastic change, particularly after a buyout as Digg was purchased by Betaworks last month, there is a bump in traffic from the buzz surrounding the launch as well as the curious former users who had left the site long before. The exact opposite occurred for Digg when Betaworks launched V1 on July 31st according to traffic tracking site Alexa. The site was down for several hours in the morning as they migrated causing some of the traffic loss, but it should have been followed by a spike in traffic enough to bring it above where it was the previous days. It did…

It was either one of the weirdest things the Digg founder ever did or a brilliant troll move against the community that helped to kill his former site. First, an AMA (ask me anything) was posted in the popular r/IAmA subreddit followed by the link being Tweeted out by Rose to verify its validity.  3,000 upvotes and 1,181 comments later, Rose hadn’t answered a single question. The Reddit account, oddly enough, was created 5 days prior to the launch of Digg V4 in 2010, and has not posted or commented until this. Some believe that Reddit contributed to the demise of Digg after the V4 launch when Reddit…

Put aside that the site was sold for a tiny amount relative to where it was a couple of years ago. Forget the fact that it still gets strong traffic and sends a decent number of visitors to various websites across the internet. Lastly, pretend like there’s no shame in being on top of the social news world at one point. Moving forward, is it better for Betaworks to take what they’ve done so far with News.me and other technologies and rebuild Digg as an advanced version of what it once was, or should they scrap the concept that Digg has focused on over the years and take the site in a completely different direction?…

Betaworks, a New York technology development firm that has had its eyes set on news distribution for some time, has purchased former social new powerhouse Digg.com for $500,000, sources close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Betaworks founder John Borthwick will be the new CEO of Digg. “I’ve always been a fan of John’s product vision and the companies he builds, funds, and advises,” said Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg. “John understands the real-time nature of the web and how to capture and surface trends as they occur. Given his experience with bit.ly, news.me, and Chartbeat I can’t…