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Digg's RSS reader expected in June but it might come at a price

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  • Posted May 2, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Let’s start with the good news: Digg is expected to release a beta version of their RSS reader sometime in June – well ahead of the planned closure of Google Reader on July 1. The bad news, unfortunately, is that…

Digg is building their own version of Google Reader

Digg is building their own version of Google Reader
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Software
  • Google’s announcement to ditch Reader took a number of faithful users by surprise yesterday including the team over at Digg. But rather than scour the web for a suitable replacement, the once-thriving social news website has decided to build their…

Reddit: 37 billion page views, 'Best of 2012' awards, top 10 posts

Reddit: 37 billion page views,
  • Posted January 2, 2013, 12:31 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Ringing in the new year, Reddit took to its blog to share the site's top ten posts of 2012. Additionally, Reddit also shared some of its rather impressive vitals, not the least of which are a healthy 37 billion page…

Total rewrite of Digg promises to put users first, launches Aug 1

Total rewrite of Digg promises to put users first, launches Aug 1
  • Posted July 20, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Once eye-balled by Google for $200 million dollars, New York technology studio Betaworks swooped in and purchased Digg and its remaining properties for just $500,000 on July 12. Betaworks has posted on its Rethink Digg blog that it is moving…

Betaworks buys social news aggregator Digg.com for $500,000

Betaworks buys social news aggregator Digg.com for $500,000
  • Posted July 12, 2012, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • New York technology studio Betaworks has agreed to acquire social news aggregator Digg and all of its remaining assets as part of a deal rumored to be valued at only $500,000. It’s quite the reality check for a site and…

Digg is almost dead, tech team hired by The Washington Post

Digg is almost dead, tech team hired by The Washington Post
  • Posted May 1, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Multiple sources are reporting that the Washington Post has hired Digg’s technology team from the once-thriving social news site. The new staffers will be tasked with maintaining the publisher’s Personal Post project and Social Reader app on Facebook while the…

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