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Is Digg wooing the Guardian for an acquisition?

After Guardian acquired PaidContent last week for $30 Million, there are very strong rumors floating around that Digg is looking to the Guardian as a possible buyer. The startup has been in the news and more...

Discuss | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 5 days ago (centernetworks.com)

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Mixx, the Digg competitor raises $2 Million

Intersouth Partners is pumping in another $2 Million into Mixx, which lets you submit stories, vote on your favorite submissions, add your own comments, and see the most popular stories on the site’s more...

Discuss | Topic: New Media | by Jitendra 145 days ago (venturebeat.com)

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Digg - A social media Petri dish

The social media site startup Digg is actually a social media petri dish where a lot of experimentation is going on to determine the future of this new field. Scott Karp opines that a completely open more...

Discuss | Topic: New Media | by Jitendra 176 days ago (mathewingram.com)

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Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank

Duncan Riley talks about this possibility: Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well. That would make this scenario more...

1 Comment | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 206 days ago (techcrunch.com)

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Digg hires a bank, lusting to sell for $300 million or more

Eric Eldon on Venturebeat talks about the swirling rumors about Digg and how it has hired a bank to help it finalize the deal it finally wants - to sell for $300 Million or more (first from Valleywag). more...

1 Comment | Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions | by Jitendra 214 days ago (venturebeat.com)

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Three Itty Bitty Digg Clones You Might Not Know

DigWin, BlogsferaNews and StartupNewz are all fighting for their niche in the user-submitted content corner of the blogosphere. What are today's startups may be tomorrow's Digg. And as each has only a more...

Discuss | Topic: Social Networking | by Louismg 224 days ago (louisgray.com)

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Digg To Add Photos To Their Mix

Om Malik and Kevin Rose discussed the possibility of adding photos to the Digg offerings about an year ago and it seems to be happening now - finally as Om says. He gives this development a quick view more...

Discuss | Topic: New Media | by Jitendra 228 days ago (gigaom.com)

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Google will let you give thumbs up or down to search results

Google is experimenting a voting feature where users would give thumbs up or down to search results. Social News site Digg is front runner and runs the website based on voting only, where user gives thumbs more...

Discuss | Topic: Search | by Vic 232 days ago (readwriteweb.com)

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Chictini: Digg for Fashionistas

Ok, another Digg clone has come out of the box. Chictini is aiming for the fashionistas - those who doodle in fashion with sections for hot spots, home and garden, etc. Like Digg, it starts your submission more...

1 Comment | Topic: Web 2.0 | by Jitendra 255 days ago (mashable.com)

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Dig Silicon Valley’s Girls

Reminding one of the dot com days, here is a site that tries to rank Silicon Valley girls in the typical Digg style. Check out the site yourself, for we offer no comments regarding the idea or its implementati more...

Discuss | Topic: Social Networking | by Jitendra 263 days ago (profy.com)