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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.
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Yakov SarousiPeer Companies
NAICS Code : 516110
Recent Events
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Report: Digg acquires Kevin Rose's WeFollow
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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PaidContent
- 2009-10-09
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The Most Loyal Traffic Comes from Facebook
BNET
- 2009-10-06
There's no question that search engines can be a tremendous source of traffic. Social networks are also proving to be big traffic generators for a lot of content producers, and Twitter is one of the big ones.However, it is Facebook and Digg that are driving the most repeat readers according...
Federated Media COO Weisberger Leaves; Joins Mobile Video Company Transpera
PaidContent
- 2009-09-29
Jason Weisberger, till now the COO of online ad network Federated Media, is leaving and joining San Francisco-based mobile video network Transpera, as its President and COO. This comes as the hunt for FM’s CEO came to a close and the company hired a replacement for Jason instead of...
Digg Makes Changes to Nofollow Policy
BNET
- 2009-09-02
Digg announced today that it has tweaked its policy on the nofollow attribute on external links. "We've made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community," says Digg's John Quinn. "These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content...
Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg
BNET
- 2009-08-13
Google Reader is turning into quite the launching pad for helping users share content. Now the service lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. You'll find this capability in the "Send To" feature under the settings page in Reader. As you can see, if...
Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More
BNET
- 2009-08-12
Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...
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 |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Richard de Silva | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Digg | President and Chief Executive Officer | Current |
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 |
| 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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