Archive for the 'Digg' Category
If you have time and patience to sit through this 45-slide comic, you get a laymen’s explanation of why the sub prime mess turned into a debacle.
More interestingly, this slide is the top link on Digg… it sort of speaks volumes about the intricacy and challenge of monetizing Digg, but I digress. If you […]
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Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture.
CBS has hit […]
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Digg competitor Mixx raises $2M in funding. This title could be called why social bookmarking sites are bad investments. Let me explain:
Yes, social bookmarking tools like Digg, Reddit, etc., have revolutionized news, publishing and media. Kevin Rose - and Joshua Schachter (founder of Del.icio.us) before him - deserve a lot of credit. […]
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The Globe & Mail’s Mathew Ingram describes an almost surreal story about Business Week asking people not to link to it, in 2008!
I canceled my subscription to Business Week earlier this year. It was the last subscription I had. Business Week spills a lot of ink on innovation and the Web economy… so […]
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I like Veoh. Not because they’re a distribution partner of WatchMojo.com, but because Dmitri Shapiro is one crazy guy (in a good, Ozzy Osbourne kind of way).
Some time ago, Veoh snatched content from TV and funneled it to its online offering.
Then, it decided to preemptively sue Universal, who had threatened to sue Veoh. […]
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Digg’s founders and investors are looking for an exit, or, put more aptly, they’re looking for liquidity.
The company continues to grow, revenue is adding up, as are partnerships. In fact, the company’s founders are even focusing on other products and projects, namely Pownce and Revision 3 (disclaimer: like Revision3, WatchMojo.com produces video content, though […]
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Just yesterday, Valleywag reported a rumor that News Corp. might be buying Digg. I’ve already gone to great lengths about Digg’s double-edge business model: your main asset is the community, and there’s really nothing proprietary about it.
Today, Tech Crunch writes:
Digg users, including top contributors, are showing an increasing amount of frustration with the Digg community, […]
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I’m grateful that Valleywag has not stopped publishing “news” on a day like this.
Jokes aside, they have a story up that suggests that News Corp. is looking to acquire Digg for $340M and take a stake in Revision3, Kevin Rose’s second company (his first one is Digg, his third one is Pownce. Try to pay […]
Tags: Digg, M&A, News Corp./FIM, Rumors|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Nov 23rd
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Do PR teams reread press releases? MSFT today announced a partnership with Digg, and in the press release states it’s the exclusive provider of advertising on Digg:
As part of the relationship, Microsoft will be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg. The two companies also agreed to work together on future technology and […]
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MSFT just added a lot more unsellable, low qualilty inventory by signing up to sell some of the ads on Digg. Digg’s a neat site, but as an advertising platform it’s just not optimal. Digg, who is larger than Facebook when measured by uniques according to this post by Compete.com, offers MSFT more of the […]
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