Archive for the 'Digg' Category
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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This Sunday I raised a concern regarding Digg’s Kevin Rose raising money for Revision3, when Digg’s success was anything but a fait accompli. Yes, the company has supposedly crossed the 20M unique threshold, but that is meaningless to the people that have money at stake: the company did not find any buyers at the $150M asking […]
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I think TechMeme is great, but something tells me that Alexa wildly over-estimates its actual traffic. If you think about it, tech bloggers are heavy Alexa-weighters and they skew most tech blogs. Seeing how so many rely and link to TechMeme.com you can imagine that TechMeme gets a favorable bounce. It’s all good, it’s definitely […]
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TechCrunch and Venture Beat are reporting that Greylock has invested $8M in Revision3, a content producer with eight or so shows. There’s no indication of it, but one would presume David Sze led the funding. Disclaimer: when I’m not writing on this blog, I run WatchMojo.com, one of the largest producers of web video content.
Anyway, I’m […]
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Daylife raises $8.3M in round 2. There was a round 1? Wasn’t social news over? And does that mean investors are twice as dumb? Not quite.
Yet another news service is getting funded though, does this suggest that indeed news on the Web is still a wide open game?
In all fairness/to clarify, I have not spent much time […]
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RWW’s Richard McManus beat me to it, but apparently, according to some numbers from Compete.com, Digg is actually larger than Facebook. Please note than Compete.com is a sponsor of this blog and our network of sites.
That’s shocking. No, not the sponsorship bit, the fact that Digg is larger than Facebook. Facebook is growing ferociously, we […]
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Score one for Greylock Partners’ David Sze, not only he does not mind seeing Digg’s keyman Kevin Rose doing two other ventures outside of Digg, he’s backing them. Usually VCs ask for entrepreneurs not to partake in any potentially distracting activities…
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I won’t comment on Digg’s reaction to the takedown notices, enough people are doing that, and I am sure there are many great points.
The one thing this confirms once and for all is that social media and news is doomed becaause what makes it great makes it horrible. Imagine how much damage users can make […]
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Since 1994, we have seen many companies come out of nowhere, off the radar, only to grow into positions of leadership and dominate their sphere. Some go on and galvanize that leadership positions, others falter and let someone else pass by.The following is HipMojo.com’s list of Internet Company of the Year, based on growth, […]
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There’s an expression that says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, well, this begs the question, can you teach an old fox new tricks?
Business 2.0’s Owen Thomas is calling Rupert Murdoch a ”cowardly Internet lion” for not using MySpace to promote News Corp. enough. Pete Cashmore’s “MySpace News Kinda Sucks” post echoes what most people are saying: […]
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