VCs shovel another $28.7 million into Digg

Digg Inc., an Internet startup that specializes in rating news stories, is making a little news of its own with a $28.7 million round of financing. The investment announced Wednesday should squelch recurring rumors of a sale to Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.

Users Rebel at User-Recommendation Site

Operators of a Web site that ranks and displays items based on recommendations from its users relented this week in allowing people to post information and links on breaking the locks on high-definition DVDs.

User-Recommended Digg.com Expands

Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology.

Satirical commentary using Kansas' Male Birth Control Pill to comment indirectly on the controversies surrounding the VA ultrasound bill, as well as the recent anti-contraception rhetoric from Republican politicians. 

Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again.

Digg is tapping into Facebook’s Open Graph to make sharing its links on the social network instant. Like Open Graph integrations from news sites such as The Washington Post, the new feature will make stories you’re reading on the news aggregator’s site automa …

The best news, videos and pictures on the web as voted on by the Digg community. Breaking news on Technology, Politics, Entertainment, and more!

With 17 million monthly uniques at its disposal, news aggregator Digg, which is attempting to overcome the user exodus caused by its unpopular Version 4 redesign in April, needs to find a way to keep its usership engaged, and to grow.

Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, is forming a venture capital fund to invest in some of the startups his bloggers write about, according to a Fortune report. The $20 million CrunchFund will reportedly be funded primarily by AOL, which bou …

FARK.com Founder Drew Curtis on Wednesday disclosed that he's managed to escape the threats of a patent holding firm called "Gooseberry Natural Resources" -- without having to pay a cent. "Their patent had nothing to do with Fark," wrote Curtis in a Wednesday blog post on the sub …

A year ago Digg and Reddit weren’t worth a competition as Digg was many times bigger than Reddit back then, but within a year things have changed drastically altering the entire competition. Digg was doing great in the first two quarters of 2010 and had constant growth w …

Digg’s precipitous plummet has left Reddit with a bigger-than-ever piece of the Internet pie, according to stats from three major traffic-tracking organizations. In fact, according to two of these sources, Reddit is already the larger web property in terms of page views a …

Increasing the number of times your articles are viewed on eHow could lead to an increase on how much you earn. You can make money on eHow not by how many times your article is viewed, but on how many times a visitor visits a sponsor on your articles page.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington originally broke the story. According to Arrington, Rose is leaving Digg to focus on a new startup he's founded. In fact, Rose is closing out a $1 million funding round for the new company.

Social media moves too fast to wait for sites to update. Twitter streams move faster than most people can read. Facebook updates in real time all the time. StumbleUpon is ever-fresh and Reddit is in a constant state of flux.

Digg released another series of updates, which include the ability to filter My News by activity type, an updated site header for searching, and a better About site with improved navigation.

It looks like Yahoo has been looking for a home for Delicious for some time now.

According to the numbers, social news website Reddit had an amazing 2010, more than tripling its pageviews at the expense of Digg, its longtime rival.

According to Statcounter, StumbleUpon is now responsible for 43% of all major social media site (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Myspace and Digg) traffic on the 15 billion pageviews that the analytics service tracks. Facebook is at 38%.

Digg is expanding the way in which its notifications work, in order to help users keep better track of what's happening on the site. The update has two components: additional email notification options and the ability to receive on-site notifications.

It's been a difficult couple of months for Digg. The crowdsourced news site pushed out a major new design at the end of August which met with a lot of criticism and broken axles.

Digg.com was once so important to web 2.0, the spread of information and social media behavior that its executives were often interviewed about the future of news on the internet. Jay Adelson, who founded Digg, once had a status similar to the founders of Groupon and MySpace.

The darkest fears of every Digger (or, as is increasingly common, former Digger) may be coming true: some very compelling data mining by a concerned user has turned up evidence that dummy accounts under Digg auspices have been promoting certain sources to the front page with almo …

Who Wins in a Civil War?

A peaceful resolution to a dispute is almost always preferred to a fight but a solution requires the opposing sides to talk civilly to each other and for both to be willing to compromise. However if one or both are unwilling to compromise then a war is inevitable.

It looks like Digg is trying to resurrect inactive users, according to an email sent to us by a reader. Apparently Digg sent out the email to users in hopes of trying to get those who are inactive back to the site. As the email states, "Come Alive On Digg.

Everyone knows it, Digg needs to change their direction or deal with severe consequences. Kevin Rose, the ex-CEO Digg and its founder just tweeted out a question hoping to gain insight from the community as to what features the company needs to reinstate.

Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.

Digg founder Kevin Rose cheerfully responds to the mountains of criticism around the newly launched Digg 4. His overall theme is that users need to deal with it.