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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...
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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...

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....

For those of us who have used Digg daily for the past 5 years, seeing the image above when visiting the site is both exhilarating and terrifying. It has...

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...

Digg isn't the first social media site to fall. MySpace collapsed under their own weight. Other social news sites like Propeller, Yahoo Buzz, and Mixx...
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...

Kevin Rose has always been known as an "ideas guy". His ventures haven't always paid off as well as they could have with Revision3, Pownce, and Milk all...

It looks like Pinterest. It acts like Digg. The newest player in the social media sphere adds some features from Stumbleupon and Twitter to the mix to...

One of the grandfathers of social news may be on the selling block as Geeknet announced today that they were evaluating "strategic alternatives" for their...

Assuming that Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination to take on Barack Obama in November, most will attribute his success in the primaries to having more...

I was struck by something when I began reading Digg's list of its "Ten stories you'll be sorry you missed this year." None of the stories had anything to...

When they launched Digg Newsrooms Beta yesterday, much of the buzz within the community was both positive and hopeful. There was skepticism to be sure as...
The social network has its fingers in a majority of websites in one way or another. Businesses promote their Facebook pages on the homepage of their...



Stranger things have happened in the social media world. Well, maybe not. Digg, stuck in on the losing side of an all-or-nothing bet with their site when...

Digg's V4 redesign was more than a change in look and feel. It was a complete shift in the direction of the company that was intended to take it to the...

Spam me once, shame on you. Spam me twice and it's time to get better moderators. For the second time in three days, Digg has become the pitiful victim of...

The blog — once full of affinity, originality, and creativity — is now filled to the brim with animosity, mediocrity, and futility. So what happened?...

The new Digg has had quite the time settling in. There was always a concern with Digg that stories could be manipulated to reach the front page, that not...

Though the Apple rumor mill is always a fickle beast that's more often wrong than not, when rumors from a variety of sources start to come together, you...

Who said the internet was a sunshiney liberal wonderland of free speech? In an attempt to steer the internet, a group of conservatives calling themselves...