Digg

Kevin Rose is the founder and chief architect of Digg. He oversees all aspects of the management and development of the Web site. Kevin started Digg in September 2004 as a personal project. His initial idea was to conduct a social experiment in how masses of users could control and promote news and other content on the Web, without external editorial control. After a very short time, he realized the power of his idea, as Digg was becoming a resource for breaking news stories and developed a strong community following. Kevin is also a co-founder of the Internet Television Network Revision3 where as a member of the board he provides strategic direction to the company. Kevin co-hosts the extremely popular Revision3 show, Diggnation, a weekly video podcast based on digg.com news stories and content. Diggnation consistently ranks as one of the top podcast downloads from the Apple iTunes Music Store. Prior to founding Digg and Revision3, Kevin was a co-host of the popular technology television programs Attack of the Show on the G4 Network and The Screen Savers on TechTV. During Kevin's tenure at The Screen Savers, a live TV program focusing on computers and technology, it was the highest rated show on TechTV, reaching 55 million households. Before working at TechTV, Kevin worked for several technology startups as well as for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Charles Lawrence, age 26, attended St. Petersburg College in 2000 and 2001, majoring in computer engineering. His coursework involved various classes related to web development and design. Following a move to South Florida in December 2001, he obtained a position at The Answer Group; a large technical support company in the Ft. Lauderdale region. Over the next three years at The Answer Group, Mr. Lawrence used his position to increase his knowledge and experience with many different aspects of computer technology, ranging from web design to networking and operating system support. Eventually he took on a manager and technical training position, responsible for advanced technical training of both new and older employees in areas relating to consumer computer and DSL support, while contributing in minor ways to the development of internal web services for the company. While employed at The Answer Group, Mr. Lawrence furthered his experience in web design with independent projects. In January 2003, he founded an open- source game project called Dawn of Infinity and built and designed the website for the project. Later, he became involved in a South Florida independent media website called the Miami Independent Media Center until January 2006. In his position as website administrator, Mr. Lawrence redesigned the website to become much more user friendly and attractive and helped to push the Miami Independent Media Center to become an important community resource for alternative news in the South Florida area. Mr. Lawrence has also run a personal website, TheTechGurus.net, for the last several years. This website has featured various articles created by Mr. Lawrence ranging from how to modify Google Inc's PPTP VPN client to connect to non-Google VPNs to many personal stories related to science, technology, and politics. Recently he has been employed with Jordyn Taylor Properties, Inc. as the Technology Director where he has actively maintained and improved the company's computer systems and networks. He has also been responsible for designing several different websites for the company including a complete redesign of the main Florida Rent Finders site, the creation of a corporate homepage, a website for Jordyn Taylor Properties' mortgage division, and a website for the property management division. During the summer of 2006, he has also begun doing web design for a music production and promotions company, Antidote Productions, Inc. He recently completed the website of Antidote's first client, Parantula.