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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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Google Acquired Milk Because They Needed Designers
Google acquired mobile design company Milk Inc. last week. However only half the team was brought in to Google. The other half was the engineering team, which included Amber Reyngoudt and David Peck.
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Categories Amber Reyngoudt, David Peck, Google, Kevin Rose, Milk Inc.
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Kevin Rose Believed To Be Joining Google To Work On Social Efforts
In April 2011, Kevin Rose started working full-time at a mobile development company called Milk. Milk launched a food and restaurant recommendation app called Oink, which was downloaded about 150,000 times in its first month as a free app. Rose is known for launching the social bookmarking website Digg.com and being a host of the popular podcast called Diggnation. Google has hired Kevin Rose through some sort of acqui-hire deal.
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Categories Dave Morin, Evan Williams, Facebook, Google, Kevin Rose, Milk Inc., Oink, Philip Rosedale, Shervin Pishevar
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Gay Social Network Fab.com Raises $8 Million
Fab.com is a social network for gay men that used to be known as Fabulis. Fab.com has raised $8 million in Series A funding.
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Categories A-Grade Investments, Ashton Kutcher, Baroda Ventures, Ben Ling, Dave Morgan, David Tisch, Don Baer, Fab.com, First Round Capital, Guy Oseary, Jason Goldberg, Jon Anderson, Josh Kusher, Kevin Rose, Menlo Ventures, SoftTech VC, SV Angel, The Washington Post, Zelkova Ventures
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Greplin Launches Wikipedia Redesign Contest
The Wikipedia Search Design Contest, run by search engine Greplin, aims to revamp Wikipedia for easier searching and better results. Daniel Gross, the founder of Greplin, told TechCrunch that there’s nothing particularly wrong with Wikipedia, but “that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be infinitely better. The deadline is August 18th, and the prizes include advertising of the winner’s Twitter handle and a trip to see Edward Tufte speak.
Kevin Rose’s Milk Inc. Raises $1.5 Million
Milk Inc. is a new company that was co-founded by Kevin Rose. Rose is the founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3. Milk is essentially a company where several developers brainstorm technology and mobile ideas and works away at building them. If there isn’t any sudden traction, then the project gets shut down. Milk has raised $1.5 million in angel funding from well known investors. Investors include Mike Maples, Jr. (Floodgate), David Sze (Greylock Partners), Ron Conway, Dave Morin, Philip Rosedale, Evan Williams, Joshua Schachter, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Arrington, Philip Kaplan, Chris Sacca, Tony Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, and several others. [VentureBeat]
Kevin Rose Launches Mobile App Development Company Milk Inc.
Digg founder Kevin Rose stepped down from working full-time at the company to start a new one. It turns out that Rose has started a mobile development company called Milk. Rose will be working with a team of four or five other coders, designers, etc. to make mobile applications.
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Categories Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose, Milk Inc.
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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.
Categories Digg, Keval Desai, Kevin Rose
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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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