Valleywag (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Of the 377 stories Digg founder Kevin Rose has submitted to his social news site, 367 went to the site's front page. When I read this, all I could think was: God, those 10 that didn't make it must... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
At a Chicago meetup yesterday, Digg CEO Jay Adelson would not comment on recent rumors that Google has renewed talks to buy the site. “There is no word,” Adelson said. “We commented on one of these... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
QLOL, our daily LOLspeak take on the news of the day Still no word on the rumors that Google is close to acquiring Digg for $200 million. What could possibly be holding the deal up? Original image credit: Wikimedia Commons. Acquisition story on CNet. Digg
Sramana Mitra on Strategy (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Revision3 is a San Francisco-based Internet TV network. The company was formed in 2005 by Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Dan Huard, Ron Gorodetzky, and David Prager to address the lack of good content on traditional television.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’ve been on the lookout today for a Digg blog post denying the Google buyout rumor, but curiously, unlike last March, that isn’t coming… Instead, we have a post from founder Kevin Rose about Digg’s new integration with Facebook Connect. This is the service unveiled at the f8 conference today that allows you to use [...]
Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Kevin Maney remembers: Hey, almost exactly two years ago, Business Week put Digg founder Kevin Rose on its cover and said Digg was worth $200 million. And now Google is supposedly, according to TechCrunch, negotiating to buy Digg for...$200 million. Guess the past two years haven't been that good for Digg. I seem to recall that it was supposed to be "the new New York Times " and...
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Having raised seed funding from Y-Combiinator and then Digg's Kevin Rose, I'm In Like With You was for a time the Paris Hilton of the TechCrunch set. The site is a beautifully designed dating meets games site that was developed by a startup called Biosocia. This NYC-based developer has now raised $1.5M in Series A from Spark Capital, Baseline Ventures, Betaworks Studio, Marc Andreessen...
CyberNet (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
We like to think of a service called Qik as “live YouTube.” It’s a video service that allows users to stream live video feed from their mobile phones to the web. Qik launched a private alpha release not too long ago and people like Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble have really helped to create some [...]
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It's public beta time for Qik , the mobile live-video service that's captured the hearts of Web 2.0 bigwigs like Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose. The service has been in private beta since late last year. Along with its debut to the masses, Qik has made some tweaks: technological improvements mean that video has a lag time of only half a second to three seconds now, for example. "Groups"...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Live video-streaming site Qik has garnered a lot of buzz for its alpha release. This is no doubt thanks to prominent bloggers and tech elites that use the service including Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose. But now comes the first big test for the service: the masses. Qik launches the public beta version [...]
