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Washington Post Buys Digg Techies ... but Not Digg

Kevin Spak — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:27:07 CDT

The Washington Post may have just dug Digg's grave. Yesterday The Next Web shocked much of the tech world with a report that the Post was buying the once-hot social media site, but it now looks like that's only partially true. TechCrunch later reported that the Post was actually only...

Google Plans 'Facebook Killer'

Nick McMaster — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:00:05 CDT

A single tweet from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose hinting at a Google challenger to Facebook has opened the floodgates of speculation about what a Google social network, aka "Google Me," would look like. Most focus on Google profiles, a service that establishes a small profile that comes up when people...

Perez Hilton Tops Internet Celebrity List

Harry Kimball — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:12:00 CST

When it comes to Internet celebrity, Perez Hilton tops the list. The gossip blogger excels in all of Forbes ' criteria, including hits on Google, page views, media saturation, and Twitter followers. Each person on the list must be famous primarily for their Web presence. Herewith, the rest of the...

Tea: Hot Drink of Geek Elite

Erika Solomon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:42:38 CDT

Silicon Valley’s tastemakers are trading coffee for the soothing sensation of fine tea, reports Wired . The same tech giants who helped fuel the Starbucks craze are flocking to expensive teas, and tea lounges are popping up in the Bay Area to meet the demand. “It’s the new social lubricant,” said...

Plane Crash Tweets Help Twitter Overtake Digg

Rob Quinn — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:58:01 CST

Twitter traffic has overtaken Digg for the first time since the microblogging site's launch, Hitwise reports. The newcomer edged up to #84 last week—one spot above Digg—after the US Airways crash spawned a huge number of updates. A photo of the scene taken by a Twitter user on...

Investors Fund Big Digg Expansion

John Johnson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:20:01 CDT

Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million to fund an aggressive expansion and fend off rumors it will be sold, IDG News Service reports. The 4-year-old site, which allows readers to rank stories, plans to double its staff to 150, revamp its features, and expand internationally. The move...

Politics Battles Tech for Soul of Digg

Kevin Spak — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:57:16 CDT

With election season in full swing, the political junkies have come for Digg.com, making Hillary, Barack, et. al. fixtures on the social news site. That’s been great for traffic, but it’s also angered the tech nerd early adopters who made Digg a success, CNET reports. At a recent “town...

Quiet on Microsoft, Yahoo Teases Debut of Digg Rival

Nick McMaster — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:15:55 CST

Yahoo’s top execs were tight-lipped on the Microsoft buyout bid in addresses to an online ad conference today, but hinted at a new service set to debut this week which may be Yahoo Buzz, the company’s reported social news aggregator, writes cNet. Jerry Yang said he had been talking the...

Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

Kevin Spak — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:29:34 CST

Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times . “What that is really demonstrating is that you are seeing 1 or 2 percent...