Comments on: Digging on Digg: Early Days on A Deal http://paidcontent.org/2008/01/02/419-digging-on-digg-early-days-on-a-deal/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shafqat http://paidcontent.org/2008/01/02/419-digging-on-digg-early-days-on-a-deal/#comment-55926 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:55:30 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/01/02/419-digging-on-digg-early-days-on-a-deal/#comment-55926 We've been hearing about Digg trying to break into the mainstream market for a long time now, but nothing has materialized. Most people outside of techies and early adopters have never even heard of Digg. This is a company that really revolutionized the 'wisdom of crowds' concept and brought it to online news, but $300M sounds too good to be true. I wish them luck though…

]]> By: stone http://paidcontent.org/2008/01/02/419-digging-on-digg-early-days-on-a-deal/#comment-55925 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:13:52 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/01/02/419-digging-on-digg-early-days-on-a-deal/#comment-55925 cannot imagine this property getting bought for more than $100m. My guess is that much of their traffic comes from Internet insiders, techies, etc. and very little from mainstream Internet users. Perhaps they can *somehow* break into this group but not without a lot of help and luck.

They are the classic one-trick pony and, despite having Allen & co. on tap, they have a tough story to tell if they really want $300M.

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