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Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg
Alexis Ohanian & Kevin Rose Team Up To Buy Back Digg—Will it Rival Reddit?
1RDDT : Social Media Founder Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian To Acquire & Reboot Digg...
Digg, once the homepage of the internet, is rebooting under the leadership of former rivals Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian.
"By combining Ohanian's and Rose's historical knowledge and deep understanding of what has and hasn't worked from their experiences at Reddit and Digg with today's technological advancements – particularly in AI – Digg plans to become an online destination with humanity and connection at its core,
Digg, Social Media
If your eye, like ours, gets to twitching any time big-money tech types start talking about how A.I. is going to improve the “old” internet, then here’s one that might get the ball jiggling right out of the socket: Early internet mainstay Digg is getting a reboot,
Kevin Rose is bringing back Digg with help from his Moonbirds co-creator Justin Mezzell, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and AI tools.
Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platforms — social media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian — are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of artificial intelligence.
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