Kevin-rose - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community

Microsoft Now Selling Digg’s Ads

Pooja — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:27:23 +0000

Kevin Rose writes a somewhat cryptic blog post announcing that Digg has done an ad deal with Microsoft. He says it’s a deal similar to the one Facebook signed with Microsoft last year. That probably means that, as with Facebook, Digg is getting...

Rumor - 3G iPhone may come with video chat

Jayaprashanth — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:50:09 +0000

The next 3G iPhone could have video chat. This, ofcourse if Digg founder Kevin Rose’s statement regarding the 3G iPhone is to be believed. Rose in an earlier podcast said that the new 3G iPhone will feature two camera’s, one at front...

Digg capitulate to mob threat: Where is this leading community-run sites?

Jonty — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:25:23 +0000

In the last 24 hours or so, there had been some extraordinary developments with respect to Digg. As most of you might be aware, it all began with users submitting the decryption key code (or rather the crack of the encryption) of HD DVD. The Digg...

Digg has now one million registered accounts

Bhagaban — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:22:58 +0000

Kevin Rose has jumped into celebration for the milestone of Digg, one of the most favored social networking sites in the blogsphere. Digg has now more than one million registered users. It took just two years to reach the magical figure. Of course,...

Digg scraps 'Top Digger list': Will it alienate diggers who really made Digg 'Digg'?

Naveen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:11:11 +0000

Digg founder Kevin Rose has explained in a long post the reasons why they have removed the list of top Diggers. These top diggers are ranked on the basis of how many stories they promote to the front page, sometimes for big bucks. Some of our...

Digg going for a makeover will be back soon in new avatar

Ashutosh — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:56:50 +0000

The warhorse is preparing for the battle by reinventing itself. Digg will soon host new features which has been added to the site. Kevin Rose lead team has gone for changes like: new interface design which will see Digg going wide screen, Top...

Rose and Adelson in Act II: Revision3 is a company now

Jonty — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:48:57 +0000

The founders of Digg Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson are preparing for their Act II in Web 2.0 ventures. Act I had been a resounding success with the popularity of Digg known to everyone. Now they are about to announce that their Internet video...

Calacanis now betting upon Digg's 'plans'

Jonty — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:05:18 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote on Jason Calacanis’ post where he said that a credible source has told him that Digg is going to pay its user as Netscape does. In his reply, Kevin Rose seemed to have been jolted and peeved at the revelation. He wrote a...

Rumour: Digg wants to be Netscape now, and Netscape Digg?

Jonty — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:08:38 +0000

Recently, Calacanis in his post citing ‘credible’ sources wrote about how Digg plans to ‘corrupt’ itself like Netscape by paying its users. He writes;

Someone credible just told me that Digg is going to be paying contributors in the next version....

Kevin Rose promises Digg 'algorithm change', top Digg user quits

Jonty — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:52:42 +0000

It seems Kevin Rose is finally waking up to the reality of Digg gangs and gaming that goes in Digg. Kevin in his blog has to say this:Over the last (almost) two years we have learned a lot about the user base and how to defend digg from spam,...