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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

This past week, the fifth largest earthquake in record history hit Japan. A tsunami struck the Asian country shortly after. It was a major tragedy. Employees at one of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) retail stores in Japan showed tremendous generosity based on a story that Digg founder Kevin Rose posted on his blog. The story came from one of his friends that works at that Apple retail store in Japan. The Apple store allowed herds of people to come in and use their WiFi connection and devices to contact loved ones even after seven hours of aftershocks. Since trains and phones were down after the first earthquake, the Apple retail store allowed employees to stay the night at the store. They also had food and drinks available for those who stayed. Below is the full e-mail sent to KevinRose.com.