Kevin Rose not quite so popular with the ladies today

Digg and Revision 3's Kevin Rose is in a spot of bother after suggesting women should have their nipples cut with scissors in an episode of DiggNation. The offending part is at the 4:17 minute mark in ... continue

Why Muhammed Saleem’s Tip’d will succeed

Well known social media consultant Muhammed Saleem has launched Tip'd, a Digg style social voting site for financial news. The SocialWebCMS powered site offers a front page stream of popular news, and category based browsing, including Stocks, Economy ... continue

StumbleUpon to relaunch, drops the need for a plugin

The eBay owned website discovery service StumbleUpon (well eBay owned for now, if the rumors of the site being on the market are true) is set to relaunch with a major overhaul that removes the need for ... continue

Digg funding raises questions

As we reported earlier, Digg has raised a Series C round of $28.7 million. The official line on the funding is that the money will be used for international expansion, new staff and a new office. Om ... continue

Digg Announces Major Expansion Plan

Digg is getting ready to more than double its size. The company has just announced a new round of funding -- $28.7 million, to be precise -- and along with it, big plans for the future. The ... continue

Lessons from a Bigfoot Traffic Spike

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In Soviet social voting, Digg follows you

Kevin Rose has announced the release of the new Digg Firefox 3 extension. Video demo above. The key features: where ever you are, Digg will follow you: Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can ... continue

Social Median wants to be Digg for 2.0 geeks

New FriendFeed mates with Digg and has a rabid child service Social Median has launched with a pitch straight at dyslexic, attention starved 2.0 types and people who want more meat than Digg provides. OK, so the ... continue

QLOL: Aliens in final negotiations to acquire Digg for $200 million

Third time unlucky this week for the alleged Google/ Digg acquisition talks. Lucky for Kevin Rose, there's another buyer in the wings. If...sorry, when this deal falls over (need to get a clearer script), how long until ... continue

QLOL: Kevin Rose on Digg Acquisition Rumors

QLOL, our daily LOLspeak take on the news of the day Still no word on the rumors that Google is close to acquiring Digg for $200 million. What could possibly be holding the deal up? Original image credit: ... continue

Four ways Google could destroy Digg

With news that Google is alleged once again to be close to acquiring Digg, some may suggest that the future of the popular social voting destination is assured. But looking at Google's list of acquisitions, it is ... continue

The new Propeller, what were they thinking?

A new version of Propeller went live earlier today, complete with radical overhaul that included dropping Digg style voting and a look that screams news magazine. I hate it, and many others will as well, however I know ... continue

Holy Smokes Batman, two Digg clones sell for $3 million

Ballhype and Showhype, two Digg clones focusing on sport and pop culture respectively have sold for $3 million, according to Louis Gray and others. My initial reaction when visiting the sites was "OMG, Pligg installs" but a quick ... continue

Digg Moving Rapidly Toward News: Sign of an Acquisition?

Digg is shifting more toward news content and less toward entertainment, according to new analysis released today. The number crunching, by research firm Hitwise, found 20.67 percent of Digg's outbound traffic went to a news/media site in June ... continue

Interesting Things Learned From Google Trends

Now that Google has entered the Alexa space with Google Trends for Websites, the general public has some access to hidden traffic data from Google's vaults. The service get its numbers from a combination of sources including ... continue

Five Reasons FriendFeed Is Better Than Digg

Kevin Rose's Digg may be the golden child of the social sharing space, but it's FriendFeed that is getting all the attention lately. I've always enjoyed Digg (and Kevin Rose is a good bloke as well which ... continue