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- danhuard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8News flash guys...Yahoo! has not ever contacted us about this. Simple as that. Report it as lame b/c it's PURELY speculation.
- Albertpacino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Every large content organization has already contacted the company, says Digg.com Chief Executive Jay Adelson, after those media companies noticed significant amounts of traffic coming from his site. Some of the companies are interested in placing a "Digg this story" button next to articles on their sites to generate even more traffic.
But Adelson isn't sure an acquisition is the right move for his company, which has a staff of ten and has already received $2.8 million in venture funding."
direct link - http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/12/13/social-content-search-cx_rr_1214social.html
digg.com link - http://digg.com/technology/Fobes:_Social-Bookmarking:_A_Delicious_New_Web_Idea_(digg_Included) - grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No. Yahoo buy comcast. Yahoo buy digg. Kevin gets job on G4 which is a TV company owned by comcast, which would be owned by yahoo. Thus all is right with the world.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kevin would never sell digg
- chuckmagnum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i heard digg is aquiring yahoo
- thomashawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey look, 1. This is total speculation on my part. 2. Getting acquired by Yahoo! isn't such a bad thing these days. I was using Flickr before they were acquired and I still use it today. It's just as good as it was before, in fact it's down a lot less. Yahoo! hasn't botched Flickr. They've basically kept the team in place and let them continue to run their site, just with more resources.
I think Yahoo! would do the same with Digg. But they would have to convince Kevin and his team of this of course. Not only has Yahoo! left Flickr alone but they've allowed Stewart and Caterina to try to Flickrize other parts of Yahoo!. I think Yahoo! gets the social network story these days and if they did acquire Digg would know that they would need to keep the team and make sure and convince everyone that things would stay the same.
Yeah it's easy to say Yahoo! sucks just because they're a big company, but it's stupid to say I'd quit Digg just because of Yahoo! That's like a bunch of people who said that they'd quit Flickr if Yahoo! bought them. You know what happened to Flickr? They went from 300,000 users to 1.5 million. People didn't leave because it's stayed the same. I'd imagine IF Digg were acquired it'd be the same way. Yahoo! would be stupid to screw with it as a big part of what they'd be buying is the community.
As for whether or not Kevin and the team want to sell to Yahoo! or not that's more speculation -- but it's probably in their best interest to act like they don't want to as much as possible to keep that price number moving up higher and higher in the mating game of acquisition. Digg would of course benefit from Yahoo!'s scale.
Keep this in mind too, what do I know anyways, I don't have any inside information or know anyone at Digg, I'm just an armchair quarterback blogger and part time camera store crusader. By the way I spoke with a reporter from the New York Times today and they will probably be covering the Digg/PriceRitePhoto story thing next week. - drummerman109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kevin hasnt built up a company and business model around this site just to sell it off to someone. he's got his own little IPTV network started and one of the most forward thinking sites on the web, he isnt gonna hand over the controls any time soon
- CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If digg is aquired by Yahoo... I'll find somewhere else to go... I hate Yahoo and what they do with stuff they buy... they totally screwed with Konfabulator.
- thomashawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The real story is the value of social networking to search. The imlications are huge and go beyond the popularity of the sites as portals today. Smarter search is a billion dollar plus game.
- muffins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank god someone sees. (aimed @ lobbster)
Kevin wouldn't sell Digg to yahoo. - jürgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1a-C-quire
- technonoob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh please say it isn't so!!!
first Yahoo ***** up the widgets
now they'll ***** up digg
i really hope you are not thinking about this Kevin
just wait a few months then YOU can aquire Yahoo - Polly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This TomasHawk guy loves all the attention you guys give him and his nappy ass blog :)
- HMNSHLD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1HA! you dont think Kevin would sell Digg. I seriously doubt that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks Dan for clearing it up... Nobody even acknowleges you said that... Do you people seriously just post comments before reading what people already said???
- schultzeworks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just read two denials by Digg staff, so maybe I should start another stupid rumor for the gullible.
Hey, I heard somewhere, or maybe it was a dream, that Google was going to buy Digg and then sell it to EBay the next day. Did anyone else hear this rumor and/or have the same dream as me? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey Kev make yer money, man. If Yahoo offers you an attractive price (read: Konfabulator), take it dude! If any 'diggers' were in this position they'd take the cash. You're a businessman at heart. Do it.
- csansbury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0weird...i was thinking that this morning
- csansbury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg + del.icio.us + browser integration = web perfection
- krum0786, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Say it ain't so Kevin!!!
- ssaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dang... so much resistance. But just for the sake of argument, I wonder what the reaction would've been had google decided to do the same ;o)
- comradevik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i want to hear this on diggnation
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if it were me, there's a couple issues here for kevin and anyone else with an interest in seeing digg succeed.
diggnation is one of the lead things coming out of rev3, a very highly rated podcast and all that jazz. that means that anything they put into rev3 in the future would play of the previous momentum that's associated with the content rev3 makes. selling digg would be seen as abandoning the project and would leave diggnation feeling kinda odd, with digg's founders just bystanders on it at that point. there's also any ad revenues the site generates.
that being said, some of these startups have been bought for outrageous money as of recent, and if i were in kevin's seat and yahoo offered me say $5 million, i would probably sell.
but they could keep the company and work it into something that could get stronger and stronger until it becomes something larger. think if google had been bought out early on - tapo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If Yahoo acquired Digg, I would stop using Digg. I'm a zealot when it comes to instant messengers, and because Yahoo has a closed IM network, it has tainted the rest of the company for me. No matter what cool stuff they have, I will refuse to use it. Same goes for Microsoft and AOL, but for other reasons.
- willgonz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg shouldn't be forsale. But then again everything has a price.
- sexualpotatoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i dugg the story just so it ends up on diggnation you can all be called idiots
- gnelson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Personally, i love digg the way it is, but good for kevin, alex and the rest if they make some money.
- mwilke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its like G4 buying techtv, corrupting what is great. Leave well enough alone.
- Albertpacino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok let me say do this one more time cuz it seems some dont read the comments, acroding to Digg.com Chief Executive Jay Adelson who was interviewed by Forbes.com -
"Every large content organization has already contacted the company, says Digg.com Chief Executive Jay Adelson, after those media companies noticed significant amounts of traffic coming from his site. Some of the companies are interested in placing a "Digg this story" button next to articles on their sites to generate even more traffic.
But Adelson isn't sure an acquisition is the right move for his company, which has a staff of ten and has already received $2.8 million in venture funding."
Here is the direct link - http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/12/13/social-content-search-cx_rr_1214social.html
and here is the digg link - http://digg.com/technology/Fobes:_Social-Bookmarking:_A_Delicious_New_Web_Idea_(digg_Included)
I reported this story and i hope others will do too. - Gl4di4tor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seumas:
Your an idiot! Anyone can see that sites that encourage social networking and user based contributions is very successful. It would only make sense to invest in what appears to be a very marketable area of "cyber life". So please, STFU!!! - concept10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What I would do:
1) Sell it for more than $2.8MM.
2) Payback VC's plus interest.
3) Profit!!
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4) Build another site.
5) Build user base through buzz and whatnot.
6) Grow insanely.. buy more servers and bandwidth.
7) Ask for VC money only if really needed.
8) Go back to step 1. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When a thing is acquired by Yahoo! it's generally a good wakeup call to shake you up a bit and say "HEY! IDIOT! Why are you screwing with all of these juvenile social sites?!".
Really - what has Yahoo! bought that was more useful than trendy? The stuff these big corporations are buying out is silly. Things like frigging MySpace and Neopets or whatever. Big effing WHO CARES. - theGREENsuit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great. Another "prediction / what-if" making the front lines peppered with "OMG Kevin would never do that! I know him too well !eleven!!!"
Until there's word from a trusted source, no digg. - Akiha_Tohno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg being taken over by Yahoo, a Microsoft ally? I can just imagine all the censorship and "Windows is good!" articles..
- penguindude15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like digg the way it is
Digg doesn't have to sell too - beejay54, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dan said it himself, so friggin relax.
- TheSiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't understand why people feel so threatened by this. If it happens, then good for Kevin.
The only way a sale to a larger company would be bad is if the company takes total ownership of the software and goes against everything that the original creator intended, thus ruining the strong user base. I doubt this is the case. I think the big three (Yahoo, Google and Micrsoft) get "it". And they won't acquire something simply to ruin it.
Furthermore, what would this mean for digg? If Yahoo give this high priority, it means a load of additional resources on the project. Potentially more developers, more fixes, updates, upgrades, and, in the end, a better user experience. Second, the Yahoo user base is enourmous. This translates for many more users, which means potentially higher earnings. This will also directly lead to the first one and back in a circular way. I agree that my view may be optimistic, but I think that because the big three companies are in full-blown competition, this is going to be the case.
I wouldn't be surprised if, as Yahoo, Microsoft and Google battle it out, they will acquire more and more start ups. - grendel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no matter what none of you say what will happen will happen.
- kwelling12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know Yahoo pays pretty good for products it thinks are quality. I can think of at least one person *cough* Mark Cuban *cough* who has benefited nicely from Yahoo's generosity.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it's from someone's blog, it must be true.
If they sell digg to yahoo, good for them. This was a good idea and they deserve to capitalize off it, whether you are submitting articles or not. Plus, with any money they get from that sale imagine what they could put their minds to next.
--my 2 cents. - stevievep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Boo-HooOOOoHooo! Digg +1, Yahh -1
- dynamx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0was going to say the same thing kwelling12
- alphaterminus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kevin, if Yahoo offers you over 1 million, you'd be a mad man bastard not to do it.
Yahoo... fine. AOL... They bought and killed my mailblocks.com after the founder died. They made it suck really, really bad, and then shot it in the head. Don't die kevin, but get rich kid. - JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cya digg. no way i'm going to get bombarded by the adwhores at yahoo.
- sexualpotatoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hate Yahoo this better not be true they are just eating up everything like Flikr, Myspace, etc. Yahoo needs to stay away from the things I like!
-finalmyfantasy
don't worry this blog post about a blog post isn't based on facts or any research i wouldn't worry. i just feel sorry for digg when they get 3000000000000000 emails saying "wtf you're selling digg omg hax0rs!" - crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fake, can't trust a strange blog!
- sexualpotatoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0News flash guys...Yahoo! has not ever contacted us about this. Simple as that. Report it as lame b/c it's PURELY speculation.
-danhuard
they won't listen they have started anti-yahoo mode reading the title and forgot to read this "article" aka made up blog crap - sdigroup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"everyone has a price" - The Million Dollar Man"
- rudinz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey Kevin....plz dont let Yahoo! acquire us.....
I luv Digg the way it is.... -
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