ReadWriteStart

Results tagged “digg” from ReadWriteStart

11 result(s) displayed (1 - 11 of 11):

Reddit Co-founder Wishes He Still Owned the Company
By Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 21, 2010 10:53 AM / 9 Comments

While social news site Digg is struggling these days, quieter competitor Reddit is still going strong. Co-founder Steve Huffman, who sold the site for millions to publishing company Conde Nast

Continue reading »


Founders & CEOs: Who Is More Expendable?
By Chris Cameron / April 6, 2010 1:00 PM / 5 Comments

Monday's sudden departure of Jay Adelson as CEO of social news aggregator Digg has raised a few eyebrows in the tech community as some rumors imply that it may have

Continue reading »


Digg's Rose, Adelson Back Crowdsourcing Startup 3Crowd
By Chris Cameron / December 26, 2009 12:00 PM / 5 Comments

Digg and Revision3 co-founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson have provided crowdsourcing startup 3Crowd Technologies and its founder Barrett Lyon with an early Christmas present of funding. Lyon says the

Continue reading »


Redux Launches as Twitter's Real-Time Video Feed
By Dana Oshiro / December 1, 2009 9:00 AM / 1 Comments

After a long weekend, you may find you're all caught up on your favorite shows. If you're looking for a new source for entertainment, Berkeley-based community Redux is finally emerging

Continue reading »


Nincha Lets You Share What Others Won't
By Dana Oshiro / November 24, 2009 2:12 PM / 14 Comments

Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn't about distributing your crude weekend photography, it's about being able to upload content outside the parameters of basic community categories.

Continue reading »


Hacking the Tower: Jelli Crowdsources FM Radio
By Dana Oshiro / October 19, 2009 9:00 PM / 5 Comments

In a few weeks, moviegoers will flock to Philip Seymour Hoffman's latest rock ensemble flick Pirate Radio. A fictional period comedy about an illegal station in the North Sea, the

Continue reading »


Use Redux and Bypass Bitly for Better Twitter Discovery
By Dana Oshiro / October 8, 2009 9:00 AM / 9 Comments

Often described as "crowd sourced television", online community site Redux is quickly becoming the most addictive entertainment experience on the web. With this morning's announcement of Twitter and Facebook integration,

Continue reading »


Posterous Acquires DIY Digg Site Slinkset
By Dana Oshiro / June 24, 2009 9:52 AM / 2 Comments

Posterous co-founder Gary Tan just announced that they've acquired fellow Y-Combinator company Slinkset - a Digg / Reddit-style news site with voting capabilities. Says Tan in his blog post, "Slinkset

Continue reading »


Twitter Scaling Solution Earns Reductive Labs $2 Million
By Dana Oshiro / June 23, 2009 12:00 AM / 5 Comments

Once a company gains widespread popularity, scaling is often its biggest problem. Public familiarity with the Twitter Fail Whale is our proof. To keep up with the pace of demand,

Continue reading »


Flusta: Betting for Bragging Rights
By Dana Oshiro / June 17, 2009 8:56 PM / 2 Comments

The internet has settled a great number of disputes in my household. The star of Ferris Bueller's Day Off is NOT John Cusack, George W. Bush is NOT older than

Continue reading »


Lookbook.nu: Digg for Fashion Insiders
By Dana Oshiro / June 5, 2009 12:07 PM / 6 Comments

Only four years after he quit his job and started The Sartorialist, fashion blogger Scott Schuman writes a monthly column for GQ, has been honored by Time Magazine, and more

Continue reading »


Movable Type search results powered by Fast Search

RWW SPONSORS

Recent Comments