Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Digg founder Kevin Rose said the site is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests, 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 engaged.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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 of our interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose at the conference, CNET News asked the Web start-up poster boy about everything from the company's Series C funding round to whether he's concerned about when those election stories...
The Social Web (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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".
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
This is the problem for Mixx and every other would-be Digg rival : Even Digg isn't really sure about how far it can take the social news concept, which has yet to appeal beyond a core group of aficionados. Even founder Kevin Rose is admitting as much. Caroline McCarthy : "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...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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 engaged. 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...
Truemors (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose tapped into his Miss Cleo instincts and made a handful of predictions about Apple rumors he thinks will come true in the coming weeks. Rose skipped the ambiguous accent and colorful frocks of everyone’s favorite fake TV psychic, but did provide some interesting predictions that won’t cost you 99 cents per [...]
Mousetrap Technology - Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Photograph by Brian Solis Kevin Rose is one of the co-founders of Digg, the hugely popular social news site. They have just gathered in lots of cash from venture capitalists (that might be the last time I write that sentence...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Kevin Rose kicked off the Future of Web Apps Conference in London this morning, on the topic “The Future of News”. He started out by asking several broad ‘unanswered questions’, which he went on to detail in his keynote. How do we create an experience YOU enjoy? How can it get better with your participation? How can we [...]
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
"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. "Why click a button and make the number go up by one? Why does that matter?" Digg, after all, gets more than 30 million monthly visitors, but Rose said that the site only has slightly...
Computer World (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
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.
Computerworld Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Digg is growing. They now have about $30 million dollars stuffed into a mattress somewhere in San Francisco (also called "funding"), or one buck per user. The catch: they only know about 3 million of their 30 million visitors by name. 27 million of them don't actually have an account. They are drive-bys, feeding at the Digg trough.Kevin Rose, talking about future direction at the Future...
Computer World (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Digg is growing. They now have about $30 million dollars stuffed into a mattress somewhere in San Francisco (also called "funding"), or one buck per user. The catch: they only know about 3 million of their 30 million visitors by name. 27 million of them don't actually have an account. They are drive-bys, feeding at the Digg trough.Kevin Rose, talking about future direction at the Future...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Web 2.0 poster boy, in his keynote address at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, says that Digg's goal now is personalization and becoming globally relevant.
Mac Rumors (Free subscription) | yesterday
More rumors are trickling out in the days before Apple's notebook media event scheduled on October 14th, 2008. EdibleApple reports that Kevin Rose revealed a new rumor at a live recording of the Diggnation podcast (not yet available). ...
