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Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won't find editors at Digg we're here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we're changing the way people consume information online.

President and Chief Executive Officer
Yakov Sarousi
Contact Information

6991 Athena Dr

Lake Worth, Florida 33463

digg.com

1 561 373 4522

NAICS Code : 516110

Recent Events

  • Digg launches Digg Shoe!

    11/11/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Report: Digg acquires Kevin Rose's WeFollow

    10/16/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

  • Digg this: Small is cool

    6/01/09 - New Venture Funded Investment - View Story

News & Analysis

digg - All News and Analysis

  • New Digg Feature: Trending Topics

    BNET - 2009-11-06

    Digg.com has always been known as "Reddit.com's news from yesterday". It appears now they're trying to combat this issue...at least on a micro level. A recent post from Digg explains: ...we're launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they're trending...

    Tags: Digg

  • Facebook Becomes Erstwhile Digg Destroyer With Live Share Counter

    BNET - 2009-10-26

    Facebook took a page from social sharing site Digg by launching a live counter for its content Share button to display how many times a piece of content has been shared on the Web. Content on Digg became glorified based on how much it was dug. But the sheer size...

    Tags: Facebook, Digg

  • Report: Digg acquires Kevin Rose's WeFollow

    BNET - 2009-10-16

    Kevin Rose started a new side project in March called WeFollow aimed at creating a Twitter directory in which any user can add their account to a category. Users are then ranked in the various categories on the site, creating a good way to see who the top Twitterers are...

    Tags: Digg

  • Digg Looks To Expand CPC Program Into Its Own Ad Net

    PaidContent - 2009-10-14

    News sharing site Digg is taking a step toward creating an ad network that will include outside websites, Adweek reports. It’s a next step up from the cost-per-click program Digg instituted this summer, when the site interspersed ads among the streams of story posts. Like its posts, users were...

    Tags: Digg, Advertisement, CPC, Ad Network, David Kaplan

  • paidContent Quick Hits: 10.09.09

    PaidContent - 2009-10-09

    »  Did Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hand over the names of 20,000 protesters to the Iranian government to get the ban on the site lifted? [ZDNet]»  Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) should wait for better acquisition targets than NBCU. [NY Post]»  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is trying to entice more local advertisers by...

    Tags: Digg, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Features, Quick Hits, Alex Ferreyra

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Yakov Sarousi President and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Reidy President
Kevin Rose Chief Architect
Roger E Pawson Company Director
Charles Lawrence
Troy M Bettencourt

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Richard de Silva Board of Directors

Organization Position Status
Digg President and Chief Executive Officer Current

Organization Position Status
Digg President Current
Digg Communication Specialist Former

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.

Organization Position Status
Digg Chief Architect Current
REVISION3 Corporation Founder Current
Digg Founder Current

Organization Position Status
Digg Company Director Current

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.

Organization Position Status
Digg Current
Jordyn Taylor Properties, Inc Technology Director Former

Organization Position Status
Digg Current

Organization Position Status
Highland Capital Partners, Inc. General Partner Current
Affine Systems Board of Directors Current
Digg Board of Directors Current
Metacafe Inc. Board of Directors Current
Turbine, Inc. Investor Current
Quigo, Inc. Investor Current
Fastclick Investor Current
Home Networks product manager Former
Newsweek Magazine staff reporter Former
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. consultant Former
The Washington Post Company staff reporter Former
Ironplanet, Inc. Team Member Former
Highland Capital Partners, Inc. Principal Former
Apax Partners Ltd. Team Member Former
Harvard Business School M.B.A Former
Cambridge University M.Phil. International Relations Former
Harvard College A.B., History Former

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