Comments on: Spurned By Google, Digg Taps VCs For $29 Million C Round

By: fwisp

fwisp — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:43:44 +0000

The issue with Digg is that everyone is using it as a traffic source and a lot of garbage gets posted there for no reason. The idea was to have a website where stuff interesting to the masses is promoted, not stories which are created with the sole mission to attract numbers.

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By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:28:47 +0000

[...] point to stop looking for buyers and to focus quietly on the core business for a long while. They raised more money late last [...]

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:45:27 +0000

[...] point to stop looking for buyers and to focus quietly on the core business for a long while. They raised more money late last [...]

By: Techeroid » Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union

Techeroid » Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:20:43 +0000

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By: Trade Jim News » Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union

Trade Jim News » Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:45:24 +0000

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Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:22:15 +0000

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By: An Untimely Misstep by Google : SearchWiki « Will O’Brien

An Untimely Misstep by Google : SearchWiki « Will O’Brien — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:43:15 +0000

[...] or down news articles and photos, and the most popular ones bubble to the top. Digg recently raised venture funding after Google walked away from a possible deal to acquire Digg for around $200 [...]

By: Why hasn’t Digg made any progress? It’s worth only $164M now » VentureBeat

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:09:18 +0000

[...] year suggest that Digg has been trying to sell itself. Most recently it was apparently trying to sell to Google for $200 million, but Google then passed, according to [...]

By: Hits Singapore » Blog Archive » Digg Valued At $175 Million In Latest Funding

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:16:33 +0000

[...] a source with knowledge of the deal. The company raised nearly $29 million in the round, which was announced earlier this [...]

By: The Scripts Zone » Digg Valued At $175 Million In Latest Funding

The Scripts Zone » Digg Valued At $175 Million In Latest Funding — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:07:44 +0000

[...] a source with knowledge of the deal. The company raised nearly $29 million in the round, which was announced earlier this [...]

By: Digg Valued At $175 Million In Latest Funding

Digg Valued At $175 Million In Latest Funding — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:50:10 +0000

[...] a source with knowledge of the deal. The company raised nearly $29 million in the round, which was announced earlier this [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:30:53 +0000

I think they need the money to get the bigger offices and live the commotion for
a while. Digg is good for funny images only, as of lately is filled with us elections news.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:35:35 +0000

advertising.

except that most people who use digg are tech savy, and were blocking adds back when kevin was spanking it into a sock.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:44:55 +0000

what a douche.

The main reason that digg is so popular and is able to crash servers is that Kevin Rose used TechTV’s screen time to advertise his site whenever he had camera time. Its surprising he hasn’t been sued for that…yet.

Plus, lets not pretend he dreamed up this magical idea. He took slashdot, and made it to where you dont have to wait for approval for a story. Thats all.

By: headless

headless — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:49:39 +0000

call, sorry.

By: headless

headless — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:49:12 +0000

Nah – Digg did good to pass up the Google offer, same as Xobni passing on the MS offer. Everyone sees it and says they’ve made a ball call or “there must be something wrong with their management/product/whatever”. TBH most of us reading this post have piss-all idea of what’s a good deal or not. You haven’t done the due diligence or seen the offer detail. It’s their business and if they decide to hold out for a better offer, then good on them I say. Rather that than have, what is at the end of the day, a good product assimilated into a corporate monolith and lost forever (see “lookout” indexer for Outlook as a great example).

Secondly, delighted to see a major playing getting the opportunity outside the US. At last! More of this please everyone else.

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:10:18 +0000

Spurned By Google, Digg Taps VCs For $29 Million C Round…

After being passed up by Google for an acquisition in the $200-million range, social news site Digg is going it alone with a fresh $28.7 million infusion of capital. The C round was led by new investor Highland Capital Partners, which as joined by exis…

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Andrew - Co-Founder of TechCrunch.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:18:16 +0000

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By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:03:03 +0000

Seriously, its about time somebody reduced our bogus social networking BS to friendmenow. Love it.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:46:29 +0000

Why the hell does digg need 150 employees for? Hell, its not like they innovate all new features or anything. anyone can install pligg and have a clone in a few minutes that runs itself.

By: Decyfer

Decyfer — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:46:54 +0000

“Fail”

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:03:05 +0000

Digg is a perfect example of a site that cannot expand and innovate. They can change the algorithms, they can change the UI, but they cannot change the elitist snobs that run the site.

What could Digg possibly add that would make it appealing and interesting again? It was no more than a Internet trend/fad that is now dying out. Digg absolutely sucks and these investment companies do not know a thing about investing in stable Internet companies any longer.

Traffic is dropping and will continue to drop. Once it drops really low, they can say goodbye to their advertising deals.

Kevin Rose has let the greed go to his head. Asking for too much money for a company that isn’t worth hardly anything.

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:52:43 +0000

ROFL !!! Hahahahaha

By: What is Digg up to? - ATLChris.com | Tech News, Reviews, and Guides

What is Digg up to? - ATLChris.com | Tech News, Reviews, and Guides — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:20:52 +0000

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