Kevin Rose & Alexis Ohanian Revive Digg: AI-Powered Social News Returns
Digg returns! Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit's Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, aiming to revitalize social news with AI.
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Kevin Rose & Alexis Ohanian Revive Digg: AI-Powered Social News Returns
Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (both pictured above). Image Credits:Julien Lasseur Digg and Reddit were once fierce rivals in the online social news aggregation space, launching within a year of each other some two decades ago. The two platforms enjoyed similar growth trajectories in the intervening years, going through various owners and spin-offs. But Reddit’s endurance was notable, and the company finally went public last year in a bumper IPO and its user-growth has continued trending upwards in the following months. Digg, for its part, didn’t stand the test of time quite so well. The company was split into parts in 2012 and sold to incubator Betaworks, with LinkedIn and the Washington Post acquiring some of the assets. Digg later raised a strategic round of funding from USA Today owner Gannett,…