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The Washington Post Subsidiary SocialCode Hires 15 Digg Employees
SocialCode is a social media advertising company and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co. SocialCode has announced that they have hired 15 employees from Digg.com. Digg was one of the most popular Silicon Valley companies where millions of people voted on the top news stories every day. They have declined in the last few years because of poor redesigns and constant unpopular changes. Many of their users flocked to Reddit or Twitter to distribute news to their friends.
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The Washington Post Rumored To Be Hiring Tech Team At Digg
There has been a rumor that Digg is being acquired by The Washington Post. However it turns out that The Washington Post is poaching a lot of talent from Digg’s technology team. The morale at the company has been low ever since Digg founder Kevin Rose left the company to start Milk. Milk was acquired by Google and Rose is now employed at the search engine company. The Washington Post is planning to place the new hires alongside the people that built The Washington Post Social Reader Facebook application.
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Facebook May Help Digg’s Traffic, But Overall Engagement Is Still Down
The pageviews for news aggregation website Digg.com is up 35% in January and they have seen their highest traffic numbers since October 2010. The main reason for the jump is because of the Digg Social Reader application, which pushes stories read by users to Facebook automatically. Essentially Facebook referral traffic was up 67% in January. This app is similar to the Washington Post Social Reader and the Yahoo! Social Bar.
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Digg Received Roughly 17 Million Unique Visitors In October
Digg VP of Engineering Ben Folk-Williams has uploaded a screenshot of Digg’s traffic between May and October of this year. It appears that in the month of October, Digg.com received about 17 million unique visitors in traffic and this has been somewhat consistent since this past May. About 50% of the visitors were from the United States.
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VP Product Management at Digg Keval Desai Stepping Down
Keval Desai, the VP Product Management at Digg, is stepping down. This is happening shortly after Digg founder Kevin Rose stepped down only to remain on the company’s board of directors. Desai joined Digg in January 2010 after leaving Google. Ben Folk-Williams will be replacing Desai.
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Kevin Rose Resigned From Digg, Still Sitting On Board
Digg founder Kevin Rose has stepped down from the company recently. He has started a new company in stealth mode and is close to raising $1 million in funding. Rose launched Digg in December 2004 and it gained popularity very quickly.
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Kevin Rose Not Really Active On Digg Anymore
Digg launched a new version of their service in August. Ever since then, traffic has been plummeting. A lot of the Digg community moved on to Reddit. Digg has not been the same since 2008 when President Obama was being elected and traffic was surging. Even Digg founder Kevin Rose is not that active on the website any more.
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Digg Hires Ben Folk-Williams As VP of Engineering
Social bookmarking website Digg.com has hired Ben Folk-Williams as the VP of Engineering to replace John Quinn. Quinn left this past November to join online retail company Gilt Groupe. Before Digg, Folk-Williams was the VP of Engineering at online marketplace company Vast.com.
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Yahoo! Attempted To Unload Delicious On Digg
On the Diggnation podcast, Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that he had talks with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) about taking over Delicious. This was before an internal memo leaked where Yahoo! said they are planning to sunset Delicious.
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Categories Delicious, Digg, Joshua Schachter, Kevin Rose, Yahoo!
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Former Digg Engineering VP John Quinn Joining Gilt Groupe
John Quinn, the former Digg VP of Engineering is joining Gilt Groupe as the VP of Engineering this coming Monday. Quinn will be working at Gilt’s New York office and will be reporting to CIO Steve Jacobs. Quinn had worked at Digg for three years and had previously worked at Squaretrade as the VP of Engineering there too.
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