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Third of Digg’s Staff Left in Dirt
ADOTAS – After breaking the departure of CRO and Publisher Chas Edwards for Pixazza, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher found out a lot more bodies departed the social recommendation website — just not of their own volition. Twenty-five of Digg’s 67 staffers — more than a third — received pink slips yesterday. To [...] more...
Edwards Ditches Digg for In-Image Advertiser Pixazza
ADOTAS – Yesterday I noticed AllThingsD Kara Swisher had an exclusive report on a Digg executive was flying the coop and thought, “What’s so exclusive?” Considering how the recent revamp of Digg flopped so mightily that the company had to re-install several old features and that the company is on [...] more...
Rose Abdicates Digg Throne as Revolt Continues
ADOTAS – Much of the user furor over Digg’s revamp has been directed at founder Kevin Rose, who took over the reigns as CEO on an interim basis when Jay Adelson was pushed out supposedly for the lack of progress on the Digg revision. Considering the bile being spit at [...] more...
Users Revolt En Masse Over Digg Relaunch
ADOTAS – User reaction to the relaunched Digg is making the all the screaming and cursing you hear when Facebook goes through a makeover look like sleeping kittens. Last week Digg unveiled “v4,” which had been in the works for more than a year — in fact, founder Kevin [...] more...
Digg Isn’t Being Dug (As Much)
ADOTAS – It seemed like Digg was having a pretty swell 2009 — in addition to increasing its user base and adding some killer features, the company announced it would launch its own ad network after a successful test run with a platform. However, the final quarter of 2009 hasn’t [...] more...
Digg aims for real time with WeFollow acquisition
ADOTAS – Trying to squeeze a bit closer to Twitter — and real-time coverage — one of Kevin Rose’s “side projects,” WeFollow, has been rolled into Digg, Rose’s main baby, at no cost to the latter. WeFollow, which launched in March, is pretty much a directory or yellow pages for Twitter. [...] more...
Encouraged by platform success, Digg will launch ad network
ADOTAS – Impressed with the early results of its unique ad platform launched in June, Digg announced it will build an ad network off its Digg Ads system to be released next year, according to ClickZ. The platform allows users to “Digg” ads similar to Digg’s editorial content, only when someone [...] more...
‘We’ll head overseas’ Microsoft warns about Obama taxes
Phishing Scam Targets YouTube Partners. (Techcrunch) Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore. (Bloomberg) Ex-Googler’s New White House Job Rankles Some. (WSJ) – [link fixed] The Palm Pre Will Bomb. (SIA) Digg Testing New Social Ad Units. (MediaPost) China continues to take down social networks. (Danwei) Subscribe to the free Adotas.com Newsletter addthis_url [...] more...
Digg poaches Federated Media, and Yahoo executive escapes
ADOTAS — A quick news glance around the webosphere. Digg poaches Federated Media’s Chief Revenue Officer, Chas Edwards. (Techcrunch) Yahoo media executive Jeff Dossett heads to AdventureLink as CEO. (AllthingsD) Casual Gamer Heyzap Raises Over $500K In A Seed Round. (Paidcontent) Facebook’s New Russian Shareholder Planning Its Own IPO. (NYTimes) I do note that [...] more...
Digg ends Microsoft ad deal
ADOTAS — The death of the social bookmarking website has long been foretold, but it’s certainly not acting like it. Digg has ended it exclusive ad-sales agreement with Microsoft, a year earlier than expected, according to ClickZ. Microsoft will continue to sell the company’s remnant inventory, but Digg will now be [...] more...
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