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Digg CEO: All's well, wait till you see what's next

When the news broke late last week that Digg founder Kevin Rose had "resigned" from his post at the company to go after something new, things did not seem well for the start-up. But fear not, current CEO Matt Williams says--all the good changes coming from the company over the past six months were done by a group of people, not just the Digg founder.

In a blog entry on Digg's blog posted this afternoon entitled "the Digg goes on," Williams once again addresses Rose's departure, while sharing some insights about the company's … Read more

Digg co-founder Kevin Rose scales back Digg duties

Digg co-founder Kevin Rose is focusing his efforts in a new direction.

Following a report on TechCrunch earlier today that said Rose had resigned from his post at Digg, Rose confirmed via Twitter that he was indeed at work on a new project, but that he'd "continue advising Digg / on the board of directors," as well as taping episodes of Diggnation.

As for that next project, Rose said in a tweet that it would be revealed "soon."

Rose had relinquished his post as Digg's interim CEO in August of last year after filling in … Read more

At SXSW, Apple schools the marketing experts

AUSTIN, Texas--Let's face it folks: when it comes to marketing at SXSW 2011, Apple out and out dominated everyone. On the first day. The game is already over.

The South by Southwest Interactive conference (SXSW) has become the essential place for social-marketing experts to come to show how good they are. And for those experts to try to show their clients they know how to manage explosive launches the way Twitter did here in 2007 and Foursquare did in 2009.

But no matter how many giant stages Pepsi builds, or parties Facebook or Digg throw, no matter how many … Read more

Reddit surges to 1 billion monthly page views

Reddit has joined an exclusive club on the Internet.

The Conde Nast-owned social news site announced yesterday that, for the first time, its monthly traffic exceeded 1 billion page views in January, according to statistics from Google Analytics that Reddit offered in a blog post. It is now among the 100 sites on the Web with that much traffic, according to Reddit.

"This is an accomplishment that all redditors should take pride in, because people wouldn't keep arriving in droves--and coming back--if not for the community that you've created here," Reddit spokesman Mike Schiraldi said yesterday … Read more

New Digg CEO calls previous launch 'a tragedy'

Matt Williams was named CEO of Digg late last summer, just a week after the social news service pushed out a long-awaited relaunch that went terribly wrong, taking its site down and upsetting users (and when Digg users are angry, they let you know!).

Now, five months into the job, Williams is finding a voice of his own separate from Digg founder Kevin Rose and is trying it out on the Digg community; the longtime veteran of Amazon.com participated in a well-received Digg Dialogg video interview posted yesterday to answer user questions. (It is viewable here.)

"There was … Read more

Ex-Digg CEO Jay Adelson lands at SimpleGeo

Jay Adelson, who departed his post at the helm of Digg as the company's downward spiral became increasingly evident, has been hired as the CEO of geolocation software start-up SimpleGeo. Co-founder and existing CEO Matt Galligan, who previously founded a social aggregator called Socialthing and sold it to AOL, has stepped aside to take the title of chief strategy officer.

"A little over a month ago, I approached our board and discussed the idea of me moving into a new role that would allow me to focus on what I'm best at--company strategy, evangelism, and new concepts … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1337: It's one thing to sniff the cookie...

It's our long-awaited Nerd Show (i.e., episode 1337), and in my opinion, we rose to the occasion admirably. Our show covers everything from the iPhone security secret sequence to how to become a lazy hacker. Plus, WiFi Direct certification, a ghostly white iPhone sighting, and PAT vs. NAT. Again. -- m011yW00t

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Beleaguered Digg announces more layoffs

Long gone are the days when then-Digg execs Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson would make joint appearances at tech industry conferences and giddily discuss a cluster of new features coming to the social-news site--as well as the fact that they were, invariably, looking to hire new employees.

On Monday, following a report in AllThingsD that publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards was bailing for a start-up, Pixazza, CEO Matt Williams e-mailed staffers to announce that "the burn rate is too high" at the company and that it would be laying off 25 of its 67 staffers, a … Read more

Digg publisher and chief revenue officer departs for start-up

Chas Edwards (pictured here), the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources.

The exec, who came to Digg in May of 2009 from Federated Media, will move to a start-up called Pixazza, a photo-tagging site for advertising, "by enabling consumers to simply mouse over images to learn more and see related products."

Edwards' title at Pixazza-which confirmed the move-will be as chief revenue officer and publisher development.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has garnered almost $18 million in funding from Google Ventures, CMEA … Read more