Digg: who owns it? (ms should?)

i tried to see who owns digg - but it just looks like they havent been bought yet

true? false?

if true - ms should buy them - as they are sort of like the OS of voting on the web (or could soon be)

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True I don't think anyone owns them, and from what I've heard they have refused very generous offers ($100 million plus).

seems to me everyone (me included) is building youtubes with voting - but none but individual blogs use digg.

if ms bought digg - it could control the echosystem of a true best of content to top network

everyone is making all these little islands - but digg is distributed voting

ms should buy them

edit - although they will probably go register dugg.com or something

Microsoft owns a site called Channel9, you should check it out!

Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson (who serves as CEO), all of whom currently play an active role in the management of the site.

So because no big company has bought them, they have no owners? Makes sense

I'm sure they have a staff with owners who have an incorporation. What else do they need? We need to get out of this mindset that these smaller popular sites are doobs to be passed around between huge companies like Google/Microsoft/AOL/Disney. What's the point?

Microsoft Communities are trying to federate - which is good.  but they are still an island unto themselves.

jamie wrote:

i tried to see who owns digg - but it just looks like they havent been bought yet

true? false?

if true - ms should buy them - as they are sort of like the OS of voting on the web (or could soon be)

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More than a service, Digg is a community.  After all, the architecture for a Digg like site would be a trivial thing to implement on their own.  So much like the YouTube deal for Google, it's about the community not the service.

And the problem here, is that the Digg community is decidedly anti-MS (not as bad as SlashDot, but definitely still anti-MS).  Wouldn't do MS much good to buy Digg.  They'd have more luck rolling their own version of the idea within their Live umbrella of offerings.

Take a look at no 2 in that top and you will have your answer

link

hmmm

hate ms?   its said alot - especially today...

i think more likley scenario is digg gets bought by google - for whatever amount..  this gives them total leverage in the ratings game everyone is so hot on

sure - easy for ms to add voting throughout msn ... ms communities - like c9 ... what will it be called? 

thats all i want to know.

cause from here - its digg and ("digg it")  that is the new base for ... cream of crop...content

*and i dont mean now... i mean when it reaches critical mass - perhaps it will rule elections, more than album charts..

is that a "billion-enough" business for you steve?

for everyone else - what is the company that will deliver the total sum of e-voting/ or even e-opinion in the future?

ms dugg?  soapbox?  1000's of islands? ... umm

I guess I'm still confused as to what your point is here jamie. What Harlequin said is true this idea that all good ideas should just be bought out and owned by some huge corporation is pointless. It goes against the very nature of the internet.

Elaborate more on what exactly you mean and why you think MSFT or anyone else should buy digg? Do you think there is something wrong with digg continueing to be now and forever owned by digg? Shouldn't that be their goal, to be a sustainable brand for the future?

Can you elaborate more on this "thousands of islands" stuff cuz I know you know better than to think that the internet shouldn't be made up of hundreds of thousands of thriving communities.

Again I guess i am still just confused as to the what you are trying to get at.

look at the internet today.

who is vote king?

ms?  google could win arguably

but really it it is digg

digg it

like on long zhengs site    (grassroots)

only everywhere

(if bought/used by a mamoth)

= control of all

*but thats just my opinion i could be wrong

jamie wrote:

it could control the echosystem of a true best of content to top network

That is the most descriptive typo for the gigantic, ego-driven circle-jerk that is the blogosphere/top-content-provider realm that I have ever seen. "echosystem".

bought by mammoth = death of digg. The only thing it holding it in the top position it is in now is the fact that it's run by "mavericks" who "don't work for the man". Once they "sell out", the only comments you'll see there will be ones bemoaning how much better Digg was before they "sold out".

P.S. Fark.com was doing the whole "votes drive the links to the main page" thing WAYYYYYY before Digg.

Link?

eagle wrote:

Microsoft owns a site called Channel9, you should check it out!