News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on November 3, 2011 at 2:22 pm PT
Oink, the first app from Digg founder and video host Kevin Rose’s new app incubator, Milk, is
now available for iPhone. If you’ve seen Foursquare, imagine if that app were inverted around the user-contributed tips about an establishment — what to order, mostly — rather than the places themselves. This is quite similar to many other apps (and Rose was actually a Foursquare angel investor), but it’s particularly pretty.
Liz Gannes in Social on October 3, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
A start-up that counts megastars like Tom Hanks, Steven Tyler and Ellen DeGeneres among its active users now has a high-profile Silicon Valley investor: Greylock Partners.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT
It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 4, 2011 at 10:45 am PT
What exactly Kevin Rose is working on is still murky. In fact, it’s milky: His grand new start-up, Milk, is actually an incubator for mobile apps. But the boy geek says he’s ready to grow up and be CEO of something.
Kara Swisher in News on March 29, 2011 at 8:35 am PT
Yes, it is perverse, but I really want to come in dead last in Time magazine’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds.”
Why? Well, there’s no way I am getting near the top with the likes of Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga in the same list, so I felt the 140th–
get it?–slot on a Twitter poll is the next best thing to aim for.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT
Digg CEO Matt Williams said his team has been in “fire-fighting mode” since he joined six months ago, which has paid off in increased usage, but he also disclosed that Digg VP of Product and Engineering Keval Desai is on the way out.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 18, 2011 at 3:52 pm PT
As TechCrunch reported today, Digg founder Kevin Rose is starting a new company. Rose told NetworkEffect at SXSW he was working on a new start-up, but I hadn’t written about it yet as I had yet to find out what the company actually does.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 11, 2011 at 9:40 am PT
JustSpotted, the social media celebrity-tracking service, is launching a SXSW edition of its mobile Web app today, which helps users stalk tech A-listers by combining public records of what events they plan to attend (via sites like Plancast), live check-ins (from sites like Twitter) and user-contributed sightings (sent directly to JustSpotted).
That people care about tech A-listers is another issue altogether.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Five months after becoming CEO of Digg at a time of much turmoil, Matt Williams is finding a voice of his own, separate from founder Kevin Rose’s. Williams had what seemed to be a largely successful discussion with the Digg community, posted this week.
