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Digg

 
http://digg.com Founded:  2004 Employees: 
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Digg is a website where people can discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet.

Address:
135 Mississippi Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, California 94107
United States
Category: Open Source
Sector: Internet
Industry: Internet Software & Services
Sub - Industry: Social
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Jay Adelson Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Rose Founder and Chief Architect
Adrian Colyer
Arin S.
Arsenio S.
Asaf Cohen
Bandel Carano
Bob Brodersen
Brian Smiga
Chelle Lewis
Chris Manchuck
Jay Patel Chief Executive Officer
Keyur Joshi Founder and Chief Architect
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Twitter Twitter is a free social messaging and micro-blogging utility for staying connected in real-time. Users send 140 character messages referred to as Tweets and are delivered to those who have subscribed to the author's tweets. The subscribers are also More >>
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3 Reviews for Digg
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Amy Z.
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25 Reviews
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02/18/09 Review Focus: Business Model
Digg - Impossible to Turn into a Profit Generating Company
I'm not sure why other reviewers have given Digg such high ratings given there is no business model or sound underlying business concept here. As I've said before, a "cool" service or idea doesn't necessarily translate into a viable business, and Digg appears to have been working under the premise of "let's get a lot of traffic and then someone will buy us for a lot of money."<br /> <br /> With those acquisition... More >>
 
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Rob Domanski
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02/12/09 Review Focus: General
Social Media's Original "Power to the People" Website
The idea behind Digg is to let ordinary people vote for their favorite news stories, and whichever ones receive the most votes are more prominently displayed. Think of it like a popularity contest for news articles. Of course, the biggest drawback, as is the case with most Web 2.0 sites based on user-generated content, is that what's most popular is seldom the same as what's most newsworthy. Thus, don't expect Digg to give the NY Times a run f... More >>
 
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Manu B.
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12/30/08 Review Focus: General
Dugg for Brilliance
Over the last decade the internet has brought us a wealth of information. You can go online and see what's the latest on Wall Street to what developments are coming up in a small town in India. Because so much information is converging at once place for the first time, people are trying to develop effective ways of processing all of this information into something readable. Thus we have had the emergence of algorithmic news feeds such as Google N... More >>
 
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