This week, Digg and Feedly both surveyed RSS users on the types of social features they’d like to see integrated into a Google Reader replacement. Feedly says it will roll out an updated product in a couple weeks, while Digg’s product launches in June and is likely to be paid. Read more »
New media incubator and venture firm Betaworks is increasingly morphing into an operating company and it’s got a new rapid development launch approach that will deliver five social media products in five weeks. What’ll stick? Read more »
Digg is working on a Google Reader replacement. Its survey of about 8,000 current Google Reader users suggests that many of them are sticking with it until the bitter end; so far, among alternatives, Feedly is in the lead. Read more »
AVOS, the company that now owns Delicious, is working on a mysterious site that takes data from Delicious to serve up news, videos and products. Read more »
A lot of die-hard RSS users are upset that Google has decided to kill off its Google Reader service, but for me Twitter and other platforms based on social news are far superior to any RSS reader and have been for some time. Read more at GigaOM »
Mourning the demise of Google Reader? Digg announced Thursday that it’s already planning a revamped reader, and will speed up production in light of Google’s announced spring cleaning. Read more at GigaOM »
Google Reader is one of the top-three tools I use to do my job — and Twitter and Flipboard aren’t good substitutes. Read more »
Reddit, the online community that gained fame last year for a Q&A with President Obama, is said to be raising venture funding that could value the company at $400 million — and would give it ammunition to compete with other new-media players such as BuzzFeed and Tumblr. Read more »
Digg, the social-news community that New York-based incubator Betaworks acquired part of last month, has been relaunched with a new look and new plumbing, but it doesn’t have anything like the kind of community Digg had — something that is hugely valuable and difficult to build. Read more at GigaOM »
Not that long ago, Digg was seen as one of the kingpins of the social web — BusinessWeek put founder Kevin Rose on the cover and said he was worth $60 million. Now, what’s left of Digg has been acquired by Betaworks for a reported $500,000. Read more at GigaOM »
Twitter has made it clear it plans to crack down on third-party services by tightening the rules on use of the network, but this desire for control — and the drive to monetize its user base — could ruin what made Twitter special to begin with. Read more at GigaOM »
You know things aren’t going well for a website when it has to come out and deny rumors that it’s traffic has fallen 50 percent over the las… Read more »
After a year and a half, Chas Edwards is exiting Digg as its chief revenue officer to join photo ad network Pixazza. The departure comes ami… Read more »
Digg, which has been in tumult since the departure of long-time CEO Jay Adelson in April, is turning to an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) executive to… Read more »
Digg, which saw the departure of longtime CEO Jay Adelson a month ago, is now laying off 10 percent of its staff. In an e-mail sent to emplo… Read more »
Longtime Digg CEO Jay Adelson is stepping down, saying in a blog post that went live just now that he is “ready to incubate some new busines… Read more »
News sharing site Digg is taking a step toward creating an ad network that will include outside websites, Adweek reports. It’s a next step u… Read more »
Social bookmarking site Digg is cutting 10 percent of its 75 person staff. CEO Jay Adelson addressed the “headcount reduction” in a blog po… Read more »
Digg says it is not for sale anymore. Really? How many times have we heard that one before? With a $29 million round recently, that was all… Read more »
It looks like perpetually almost-for-sale social news site Digg is going to stay solo for awhile… The SF-based company has just announced… Read more »
