Jay Adelson, CEO of Digg for the last five years, is stepping down from the gig in order to pursue his "entrepreneurial calling," he said today. Kevin Rose, founder and long-time public face of the company, will become chairman and CEO.…
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EQAL Now Wants to Compete with Ning
EQAL, aka the online studio created by the lonelygirl15 guys (but now focusing on derivative rather than original content), today announced a…
Read MoreWeb Celebs Declare They Are Geeks!
It’s hard to hate too much on the Society for Geek Advancement. I’m not quite sure what or how serious the project…
Read MoreApple’s iPhone 3.0 Designed to Defend Against Palm Pre
With trademark confidence, Kevin Rose was pretty vocal about what we could expect to see from the new iPhone 3.0 software this…
Read MoreOf Packages and File Compatibility: iWork ’08 and iWork ’09
I’ve seen a few articles lately on the file incompatibility between iWork ’08 and files saved in iWork ’09. Macnn and other sites have…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Wikipedia, IPTV, Kutcher
Wikipedia Ramps Up for Video; expecting a crush of video uploads in the coming years, the sum of all human knowledge boosts…
Read MoreEntrepreneurs Ask VCs for Cash Back
This week’s $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway Inc. was the largest web-related venture capital investment since the…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Jokes.com, Digg, Babelgum
Comedy Central to Relaunch Jokes.com; site will feature an extensive library of clips from the network’s stand-up archive. (Broadcasting & Cable) Kevin…
Read MoreQiK Brings Video to iPhone (Legitimately)
It finally looks like video-recording is arriving on the iPhone, courtesy of QiK’s new app. The omission of a video-record feature for…
Read MoreLive from Diggnation: Apple Event Rumors
This year’s Future of Web Apps Expo found game geek Alex Albrecht and über-fanboy Kevin Rose arrive in London, England, for a…
Read MoreDid Kevin Rose Take Some of Digg's New Cash?
Digg has raised $28.7 million in a Series C round of funding. The company made the announcement earlier this morning. Highland Capital…
Read MoreKevin Rose's Next Startup to be Green Focused?
Could Kevin Rose, Silicon Valley wunderkind and founder of Digg, Pownce and Revision3, be going green? The Internet entrepreneur proposed a gadget…
Read MoreKevin Rose's Next Startup to be Cleantech?
Could Kevin Rose be latest convert from info tech to cleantech? In a recent video blog post, the Digg founder fleshed out…
Read MoreI’ll Take That TV Deal, Please!
Written by Daisy Whitney There is a sense among the web video cognoscenti that you’re a sell-out if you aspire to make…
Read MoreFound|LINKS: Mar. 1 – Mar. 7
1) Revenues & Up-selling in a Recession: Related to Larry Chiang’s post this week on the topic, now read Level up for…
Read MoreSpeedtest.net is my new favorite speed tester
Looks like my old fave has been replaced; Oh Gizmo! turned me on to Speedtest.net for testing my bandwidth on the run.…
Read MoreNiveus Media’ Big Honking DVD JukeBox
Niveus Media, one of the companies I have written in the past has just released what I call a big honking DVD…
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