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Facebook Connect is getting closer to fully rolling out with all of their partners which includes CBS, ABC, Hulu, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Vimeo, Xobni, etc. Pretty soon anyone with a Facebook account will be able to log into Digg using Facebook Connect. Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg stated that this is “the next step [...]
... to rank the items in terms of perceived significance or entertainment value. Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson pointed out that CBS News last week aired a pre-recorded feature in which anchor Katie Couric separately asked presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, "When is it appropriate to lie to the American public?" The question, as Couric noted, was selected by the Digg community....
Highland Capital Partners has infused social news site digg with $28.7 million in fresh funding. According to CEO Jay Adelson, the money will be used to improve infrastructure, expand...
Digg gets more investments Social news discussion service Digg has received another round of fresh investments worth $28.7 million. This news could be a hint that the company aims to stay independent for the time being. Jay Adelson, Digg’s chief executive said in a statement on the new developments: “That’s part of the message. We want to be [...]
Filed under: Deals , Google (GOOG) , Small business Several years ago, I talked to Jay Adelson, the cofounder of Digg (a popular news rating service). We discussed the keys to successful ventures and the importance of building an enduring platform. I liked when he said that it is critical to have an "unfair advantage." Well, so far, things seem to be working nicely. In fact, Digg has raised...
Burn, baby, burn! That's the coded message in Digg CEO Jay Adelson's blog post about a "major expansion effort." The website, whose users rate and discuss news headlines, is hiring for 19 open... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million in a Series C venture round led by Highland Capital Partners, and has in turn announced a major site expansion. "Today is a big day for Digg," CEO Jay Adelson wrote on the company blog . "We're announcing a major expansion effort--the largest we've undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, we're accelerating many of the programs that...
Digg, which was supposedly going to get bought by Google but saw the deal fall through, has instead gone ahead and raised a $28.7 million C round led by Highland Capital Partners. CEO Jay Adelson talks about it on his blog, but this is a case where the press release is actually more helpful. It notes that advertising has tripled at the site in the last year, and has discusses relatively detailed...
... Vimeo, and Xobni). During a speech at the Web 2.0 Expo last week (video embedded below), Digg CEO Jay Adelson hinted at how Facebook Connect could help the social news site take "the next step of collaborative filtering" and how it is tied to the "future of Digg." At the most basic level, Facebook Connect will let you sign into Digg and all of these other partner Websites with nothing more...
... a total of $40 million in funding. Revision3, the other company that is led by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson has $9 million in funding. If Digg is serious about being acquired, then they may have to ask for a higher price than the rumored $200-$300 million that they were rumored to be looking for. Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg confirmed the round of funding on the Digg Blog .
Digg gets over half of its traffic from outside the United States which is more difficult to monetize. To take advantage of this audience Digg needs to be available in the language of every major market and actually have local generated content. Of all the items Jay Adelson announced I believe expanding their relevance in international markets will be their primary focus.
Here’s your blogger live reporting from Web 2.0 Expo, New York City - ready to keep you up to date about the latest start-ups and tech news. It’s gonna be an interesting few days, with big shots like Adriana Huffington, Tim O’Reilly, Jay Adelson, and Clay Shirky sharing their views on the next web. After [...]
... , and offer SearchBlog readers a hefty discount to book. Here's a selected list of our speakers: * Jay Adelson, CEO, Digg.com * Miles Beckett, CEO, EQAL ( that's the lonelygirl15 folks) * John Byrne, Executive Editor, BusinessWeek * Bill Capodanno, Director, Central Marketing, Microsoft * Justin Curtis, VP Creative Director, Grey SF * Laura Desmond, CEO, Starcom MediaVest Group, The Americas...
... Digg's "Groove Is In The Heart" from Mark Trammell wouldn't be nearly so worth watching if CEO Jay Adelson didn't start rapping two minutes in. Tocquigny's video featured only interns, making it seem like the real executives didn't take the PR project seriously. What kind of example does that set for the monkey-see-monkey-do younguns'Rule No. 3: Plan meticulously and practice. Here's "L'amour...
