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It’s hard not to feel sorry for new Digg CEO Matt Williams.
Can Digg Apologize Its Way Back to Popularity?: Tech News «
Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer
At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, Digg 's founder Kevin Rose presented a very candid view of the current state of Digg during an interview with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Rose admitted that he and the rest of the team made mistakes when they launched Digg v4. He admitted that Digg's traffic took quite a dip after the launch of v4.
The launch of Digg 's redesign will likely go down in the history of social media as a textbook example for how to alienate your users.
Digg Redesign Tanks Traffic: Down 26%
Digg Tries to Regain Its Momentum - NYTimes.com
“It was a really exciting thing,” says Ms. Vernon. “I got an adrenaline rush.”
Digg Exec: Sorry About the Bugs, But Glad You Care! «
Digg’s had a hectic week. The company’s long-awaited relaunch didn’t exactly go as planned; it was fraught with technical problems and poorly received by many users. The Digg team has been working like crazy to fix the site, but Digg VP of Product Management Keval Desai finally got a chance to breathe today and talk to GigaOM.
The New Digg: What It Means For Power Users & Publishers
The new version of Digg has changed the playing field for two of its biggest constituents: power users and publishers. We discuss this with a long-time Digg power user.
Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less P
Last night, during Digg 's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg.
Digg Cuts Staff by 10% (Again) | Epicenter | Wired.com
Digg CEO Kevin Rose cut staff by 10% Thursday, the second time the social bookmarking site has reduced staff by that amount in the last two years.
There’s a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.”
Digg’s Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions
In an interesting nugget of Friday afternoon news, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has posted an article featuring a preview of the upcoming fourth version of the social news site Digg . Founder Kevin Rose has published a glorious 1080p video to YouTube aimed at explaining the new features to publishers. Among the most interesting features is the inclusion of social network contacts into the Digg ecosystem, as well as the ability for publishers to auto-publish stories to Digg via an RSS feed.
Digg's New Social Following and Publishing Tools [VIDEO]
It was a good run, Digg.com. You certainly had a great idea and funneled plenty of Web traffic to opportunistic and manipulative publishers.
Digg is Deadd - Website Magazine - Website Magazine
Digg recently opened up the redesign’s alpha site to more users — you can request access by signing up at new.digg.com — and I’ve been using it for a while now to see what has changed, and whether the site is likely to become a more central part of my social networking habits. When you log in to the alpha, it asks you to subscribe to recommended sources of links, including mainstream sites such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, as well as individual users such as Digg founder Kevin Rose and tech guru Leo Laporte. Many of these publishers push their content directly to the site by importing their RSS feeds (using Superfeedr, which Liz wrote about recently ).