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Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Friday 10 October 2008. 06:05:00 Nevermind the buzzcuts Digg Founder Kevin Rose said that it was time that his website grew up and had a bit of meaning to the real world. He said that Digg had to do better and said that it's time for the social news site that he founded in 2004 to expand beyond... ... Source: www.pcadvisor.co.uk --- 2 days ago
Kevin Rose says Digg's failing to reach new markets Digg is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests, which will be key to keeping users engaged, according to the social news recommendation site's Founder, Kevin Rose. Over the next two years or so, Digg's engineers will focus on ways to link users with similar interests and create tools that allow them to share news that's not necessarily of broad general interest. "We don't really do a good job of servicing the long tail of content," said Rose, who spoke at the Future of Web Apps conference in London today. Some 30 million people visit Digg each month to view content, but only 3 million are actually registered, a disparity that shows "there's a space in the middle we are missing", Rose said. "I don’t believe we are really offering a compelling experience to the user to spend the five minutes to sign up," Rose said. "It's not really a custom experience. We have to do better." In July, Digg rolled out a recommendation engine, which looks at a person's digging history and compares it to others'. It computes connections between users in different topic areas and identifies strengths between them. Since introducing the recommendation engine to the 'Upcoming' section, Rose said Digg has seen users adding more friends as well as digging more stories. It has also driven more traffic to Digg, Rose said. Eventually, Rose said he wants a broader taxonomy for Digg. That would a ...
Source: digg.com --- 2 days ago
Digg Founder Kevin Rose has admitted he is hugely excited about the role technology is playing in the US presidential election race - telling TechRadar he can't wait to see how much more important it will be in four years time. ... Source: www.manishpandey.com --- 6 days ago
Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk I was on a break due to some problem with my net connection and I thought I was the most luckiest person on Earth. Taking into account the recent events that has shaken the social networking world, I’m still very much alive on Digg, yes you heard it! When I got back last [...] ... Source: www.news.com --- 3 days ago
Financial markets worldwide are in a state of disarray, but Digg Founder Kevin Rose says he hasn't changed his vision one bit. Here's what he told CNET News in an interview about international expansion, financial responsibility, and his status as a geek ... Source: www.technologyowl.com.com --- 3 days ago
Digg Founder Kevin Rose said the social news recommendation site is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests, which will be key to keeping users. ... Source: news.cnet.com --- 2 days ago
Angel investor Ron Conway is warning his start-ups to start saving up cash and reducing costs quickly. He's not the only one who says the current economic crisis is similar and perhaps worse than the dot-com bust of 2000-2001. CNET's Rafe Needleman, editor of Webware, stops by to talk about how or if Web 2.0 companies will be able to survive in the months ahead, and which kinds of companies are in the most danger. Also in Thursday's podcast: IBM affirms a positive outlook for the year and predicts a good quarter ahead, and Digg Founder Kevin Rose sits down with CNET to talk economics and what needs to change at Digg. Plus, Apple sends an invitation to a notebook event next week, and Microsoft unveils its overhaul to Xbox Live. Listen now: Download today's podcast Today's stories: The tech downturn: How long and how bad? It's official: Apple to talk laptops on Oct. 14 Amid gloom, IBM sees sunny forecast Getting global with Digg's Kevin Rose Introducing the new Xbox Live 'experience' Solid-state shift in Seagate's future ...
Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 2 days ago
Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base (and therefore content) beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-Founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". ... Source: www.eweek.com --- 3 days ago
Wikipedia creator and Wikia co-Founder Jimmy Wales shares his philosophy of competition in the search engine market. The comments come as Wikia is taking the step toward augmenting its search results by integrating core Web services from Digg, Twitter and other popular Web sites. - I've been having a hard time getting my head around why the world needs so many search engine choices. Don't get me wrong. Choice is great. So, we have newfangled search startups like Cuil, Mahalo, Powerset and others who have recently upgraded their wares, including Ask.com, Hakia and today, Wiki... ... Source: www.eweek.com --- 4 days ago
Wikia launches WISE, an API that allows programmers to write widgets to pull content from Twitter, Digg, Creative Commons, Yelp and other sites into Wikia Search results. The application development is designed to improve Wikia Search results, which will improve the user experience for visitors. - Search engine startup Wikia, which is trying to give search a more personalized feel, launched Oct. 8 a platform that lets programmers integrate content from popular sites such as Digg, Twitter and Creative Commons to improve the search experience. Wikia co-Founder and Chairman Jimmy Wales told... ... Source: www.appleinsider.com --- 36 days ago
Rumors that Apple will announce next week version 8.0 of its iTunes media cataloging software with a new music recommendation engine may be premature, according to a new report. Earlier this week, outspoken Digg Founder Kevin Rose built on his pre... ... Source: www.infoworld.com --- 4 days ago
Wikia Search will roll out on Wednesday a platform that developers can use to create applications for this open-source search engine. Called Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions (WISE), the platform is aimed at letting individuals and organizations create applications that sharpen the search engine's ability to answer queries. "As we look at what's going on in search, we've realized there's a whole bunch of rules-based mechanisms you can use to map a search query to the exact correct result," said Wikia Inc. Founder Jimmy Wales. Already organizations including Thomson Reuters, The Washington Post, Digg and Twitter have created extensions to allow Wikia Search to provide more relevant results for specific queries. Wikia Search already allows anyone to participate in building its index by manually adding, deleting, and rating Web pages, as well as editing a search result URL by modifying its headline and description. Contributions are reflected immediately and don't go through an approval process. With WISE, Wikia Search wants to automate this participation. "We'll get a whole new level of user-built search. Instead of having to individually edit one result at a time, which is useful in some contexts, here users can create applications for whole categories or whole rules of searches," Wales said. The Washington Post's application, for example, delivers articles from the newspaper to Wikia Search results. Also taking advantage of the WISE ...
Source: voices.allthingsd.com --- 2 days ago
Digg Founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up. "We have to do better," he said in his talk, called "The Future of News," and said that it's time for the social news site that he founded in 2004 to to expand beyond the geek set and get some real-world relevance. ... Source: www.macdailynews.com --- 38 days ago
Digg Founder Kevin Rose is reporting that Apple's forthcoming (September 9th) iTunes 8... ... Source: network.nationalpost.com --- 2 days ago
Digg fans, dig this! The social news site is going to be bigger than ever, The Times reports. According to Digg.com Founder, Kevin Rowe, the company gets 45% of its traffic from overseas. London had the most people contributing to the site more than any...( read more ) ... Source: www.electricpig.co.uk --- 1 day ago
Tucked quietly away at the edges of East London the Future of Web Applications conference has been going on for the past two days. Kevin Rose, off of Digg, opened the show (he’ll also be back for an encore performance of Diggnation Live, shortly) and closing the event will be none other than Facebook Founder [...] ... Find more results for Digg Founder on RSSMicro.com |
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Digg Founder Kevin Rose has admitted he is hugely excited about the role technology is playing in the US presidential election race - telling TechRadar he can't wait to see how much more important it will be in four years time. Speaking at the Future of Web Applications (FOWA) conference in London, Rose admitted that he was surprised at how many political stories are making it into the site's most Dugg category - and at just how skewed things currently are towards Democratic candidate Barack Obama. "I look at the front page and it's wall to wall politics," said Rose. "There are stories there that I wouldn't read." Filtering down "I think you are right - the stories do seem to be favouring Obama. There are a lot of stories and top 10s right now that are anti-McCain and anti-Palin. "But if you filter the comments... you can see that there are a whole lot of Republicans in there as well voting the pro-Obama comments down. "Isn't it fascinating just how much technology is being used this time around? I mean four years ago there was virtually no use of technology and now... "And it seems that it's the Obama camp using it the most. The iPhone app is very good." ...
Digg Founder Kevin Rose, in a photo taken at the last Future of Web Apps conference in Miami. (Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News) LONDON--In the first part of our interview with Digg Founder Kevin Rose at the Future of Web Apps conference, CNET News asked the Web start-up poster boy ... ...
Filed under: Rumors , Apple TV The rumor mill is heating up this weekend in advance of Tuesday's press event, and one left-field rumor is coming from a familiar, yet unlikely source: Weblogs Inc ./ Mahalo Founder and TUAW godfather Jason Calacanis, who dropped a mild bombshell in an interview with a CNET.uk blogger on Friday (yo, JC, where's the love?): Apple is developing HDTVs that will support streamed content from iTunes, says Calacanis, integrating the Apple TV functionality along with the display and tuner. I would file this one under "signs unclear, ask again later" -- while Apple clearly has both the display and playback engineering already done ( Cleve @ 9to5Mac suggests that "[t]echnologically speaking, Apple could probably put together [this] product in a three day weekend") it's not clear that a single-box product is that much more compelling than an Apple TV with a cheap HDTV. Then again, the magic of Apple integration could make the whole a stronger sell than the sum of its parts. Word from London, meanwhile, reported via Edible Apple : star rumormonger and Digg Founder Kevin Rose announced his expectation that the next round of MacBook laptops will feature Blu-ray drives onboard. This one rates a "probable" and certainly would be a great value differentiator for the new machines. Lastly, as the NVIDIA-related reports continue, AppleInsider and PC Perspective are stating with high confidence that the new MacBooks w ...
Caroline McCarthy / The Social : Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub — LONDON—Digg Founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up. — “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Future of News,” … ...