Stories tagged "jayadelson"

Jay Adelson & Kevin Rose, founders & operators of Digg, address concerns held by top Digg submitters, here represented by Andrew Sorcini, Muhammad Saleem, Reg Saddler, and David Cohn.

January 23rd, 2008 - Emergency Drill Down meeting initiated by MrBabyMan, Zaibatsu, msaleem, DigiDave. As Jay stated in Wired, he's correct this was not a revolt but a pre revolt expressing concern from all kinds of Digg users, not just top Diggers.

A reliable source just confirmed the company8217s plans, noting the company has hired Allen & Company, a tiny but influential private investment firm, to help broker a deal.

Clever. And, potentially very damaging to the owners of Digg who may be involved in valuation exercises with potential investors and may have other ways of telling their story.

This last week in the tech world ended up being much bigger than it began. We discuss Microsoft’s proposal to purchase Yahoo!, Amazon’s acquirement of Audible, Pirate Bay charged with copyright infringement, Facebook apps on any website, and more...

Guess what. Autobury exists. Despite questions being sidestepped by Jay Adelson (who answered a direct question about autobury by asking Why would we want to do that?), there is too much evidence to the contrary.

Essentially, the 45-minute answer session seemed to almost seemed to be a “Yes, we hear your bitchememes, there’s not much we can do about how people choose to use it, get over it.”

So, my summary is that I think Digg remains mostly a US phenomenon with most of the users signing up while at work.

Kevin Rose started Digg specifically to give users the power to decide what's news. It must be a pain to see some of his top users quit the site and write an open letter charging him with "disregard for the Digg community," "lack of transparency..."

   Where Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Digg Founder Kevin Rose answered some questions, but not others. Wonder how they'll do in front of a live studio audience?