Digg
Summary
Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's former popularity prompted the creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting systems. The website traffic ranked 130th by Alexa.com as of January 2, 2011. Quantcast estimates Digg's monthly U.S. unique visits at 8.5 million.Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Only Rose still plays an active role in the management of the site. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries.
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The Biggest New Media Trend Is Analytics Transparency
If we've seen one trend in the past few years across digital media (besides large-scale growth), it's a transparency that is often lacking in the corporate boardroom culture of major tradtional media brands. The most recent example of this came this afternoon when Business Insider CEO and founder Henry Blodget "opened the kimono" and published an extensive 90-slide presentation on the site's growth and strategy.
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Reddit raising venture financing? It would be crazy not to
The online community Reddit is said to be raising a round of venture financing that could value it at $400 million or more, according to a report at TechCrunch. Whether there is any truth to the rumor remains to be seen, but the idea that Reddit could be raising that kind of equity is hardly far-fetched.
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The broadcast-ification of social media
There is an inherent tension in social software between content discovery and the quality of conversation around that content. Group conversations get worse as groups grow, and groups grow as group discovery improves — if it’s easier to find something, more people will find it. Therefore, the easier time I have finding good conversations, the less likely those conversations are to be any good (e.
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'Quartz' grows roots in social, mobile as traffic nears 1 million
While Quartz's readership is growing, that growth is not coming from search (well, 11% is). Rather, the majority (40%) of the digital news publication's eyeballs are coming from social networks like Twitter and Digg. Here, Quartz's editor-in-chief weighs in on "Twitter-friendly headlines" and where the publication's mobile traffic is going.
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Daily Must Reads, November 1, 2012
4. Jake Levine on the fate of News. me, personalized news, and reinventing Digg(Nieman Lab).
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Wednesday Q&A: Jake Levine on the fate of News.me, personalized news, and reinventing Digg
News. me’s announcement last week that it was pulling its iOS apps for iPad and iPhone surprised more than a few. For over a year, the Betaworks-backed news discovery tool has offered users a way to cut out the clutter and find the news that matters to them as filtered through their friends on social networks.
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Daily Must Reads, October 25, 2012
1. Digg was once a traffic fire hose for publishers - can it get its mojo back?(Adweek).
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News.me says goodbye, places blame on Twitter
The folks behind News. me announced that they’re closing their iOS App Store doors on Wednesday, directing attention away from their curated news app on iPhone and iPad and re-directing focus on Digg curation. They say it’s a direct result of Twitter’s increasingly stringent third-party guidelines and competition with developers in the curation space.
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Slowly Digging Out of Its Hole
When the New York tech incubator Betaworks bought the former social news giant Digg for a mere $500,000, there was confusion, but mostly snark and ridicule. “There was a lot of nervous laughter in that first staff meeting when we announced it,” said Digg gm Jake Levine. In the weeks since its July 31 relaunch, the completely overhauled site has garnered some favorable reviews but has a long road ahead if it wants to recapture its once crucial role in the online publishing game.
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Daily Must Reads, October 15, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Leandro Oliva. 1. Dark Social: Measuring elusive social web traffic (The Atlantic) 2. The new Digg has a fighting chance (TechCrunch) 3.
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