About.me is a website where users can create a landing page profile with a large background image and links to their social media profiles. The founders of About.me, including Tony Conrad, bought the company back from AOL for around $5.7 million three years after the acquisition took place. Today About.me announced that they have acquired Wefollow.
Digg is preparing to launch their new RSS reading service next month. Digg parent company, Betaworks, decided to build an RSS reader when Google announced that they are shutting down Google Reader in March. Betaworks acquired Instapaper late last month and they believe this service will complement Digg Reader.
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Based in New York, Betaworks is an incubator and investor that is known for acquiring Digg.com and revamping it. Earlier this week, Betaworks acquired Instapaper, an app to save websites for reading later. Betaworks founder and CEO John Borthwick said that this acquisition clarifies the role of Betaworks as operating multiple products rather than an incubation space for new ideas to spin out, according to TechCrunch.
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The new Digg was only made in a matter of a few weeks, which is definitely commendable. However most people are sugar-coating what they think about it. I am going to be direct and say that the site appears to look simply like a news website template with less emphasis on social voting that it ever has been before.
Yesterday we wrote about how Digg founder Kevin Rose invited Reddit users to ask him any question they want through the AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum and he would try his best to answer them. After posting the questions, he waited several hours before answering them and what he did was smart because he wanted leave vlog posts with his thoughts instead of typing politically correct answers. This shows that he is sharing his unfiltered thought processes to each question that he answers. Below are the questions and his answers.
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Digg founder Kevin Rose sold his company to Betaworks and patents to LinkedIn. Now he works at Google Ventures after the search engine giant bought his mobile app development company Milk Inc. After Digg was redesigned and contained many errors, many of the users flocked to Reddit.com. Now Kevin Rose is answering questions on Reddit.com in a section called AMA (Ask Me Anything). Rose uploaded the post 11 hours ago, received many questions, and has not really answered any of them except for one. The one question he answered was when he joined Reddit. My guess is that eventually he’ll go back to the thread and power through a lot of the questions, but right now it just seems like he is trolling Reddit users.
It has been about a week since Betaworks acquired Digg. Now Betaworks is announcing that they will have a brand new version of Digg in less than 2 weeks from the gronud up. The Digg team is 10 people and they will be working day and night on the new project.
Social news aggregation website Digg.com was founded by Kevin Rose. Yesterday it was announced that Digg would be selling their assets some of their core assets to Betaworks. Rose said that he sold some company shares during some of the venture capital rounds, but did not make a lot of money. However Rose remains optimistic with the new parent company of Digg.com
