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17:37 • 10 months ago

As betaworks and Digg both announced on their blogs, we are taking over Digg and turning it back into a startup. What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks.

This is going to be fascinating to watch. (via amzam)

Betaworks paid half a million for Digg’s content and traffic, so apparently they’re using all that money they didn’t have to spend on doing a complete reboot. Some of the comments are very cynical about their chances.

(Source: rethinkdigg)

10:58 • 1 year ago

In which an insanely meta blog post reaches its logical conclusion

Tags: meta new yorker internet journalism social news from newsweek 399 • Permalink

newsweek:

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newsweek:

shortformblog:

I’m a screenshot from a story that’s begging to be taken seriously because it’s trying to be meta and stuff. Reblog me!

We will reblog because we are a savvy media tumblr! You will read this because you follow said savvy media tumblr. CLICK!

As a mid-level tumblr personality I’ll reblog this with a witty comment and assume that the subsequent reblogs I get will be because of my comment and not the source material.

As an uninfluential commonperson, I’ll reblog this with a comment that I think is more necessary than it actually is, and follow it with too much punctuation!!!

As someone who feels like he has probably said everything he has to say on here, I will add something brief:

1)shut it down.
2)perfect.
3)something either very literate or very much a callback to something earlier in the day. One person will get it and everyone else will be bewildered.

We love you, tumblr.

This is our favorite post in a while. Above is what happened next.

17:36 • 1 year ago

Tags: the new yorker sharing sharing stories social media social news 399 • Permalink

I’m a screenshot from a story that’s begging to be taken seriously because it’s trying to be meta and stuff. Reblog me!

20:06 • 2 years ago

Tags: creepy facebook horoscopes huffington post privacy social news unsavory wtf 13 • Permalink

Hey guys, look what the Huffington Post is doing with our data

Look, it’s great that the Huffington Post is trying to make our news experience more social, but this is a tad bit over the line. Come on. This is just plain unethical. Look, the social news element is one thing, but they gathered people’s birthdays from Facebook and used them in a really weird way, without telling us they were going to do it. Bad idea. source

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21:14 • 2 years ago

Digg realizes that too many people are working for them

Tags: digg kevin rose matt williams reddit social news staff cuts 1 • Permalink

six the number of people who work on Reddit’s entire site
67 the number of people who work on Digg at the moment
25 the number of staffers Digg will be cutting to get profitable source

» Cutting the “overhead”: Why is it that Reddit has a much smaller staff, yet is completely kicking Digg’s butt at the moment? Good question. Either way, Digg (which is unprofitable) is cutting 37 percent of its staff in an effort to rebuild lost momentum in the platform and cut significant costs. “It’s been an incredibly tough decision,” wrote Matt Williams, the company’s brand-new CEO. “I wish it weren’t necessary. However, I know it’s the right choice for Digg’s future success as a business.” Also, a product refocus is coming very soon to correct the last one.

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