Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Key takeaways
- Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
- The startup laid off staff and said it was time to go back to the drawing board.
- On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose s once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course. Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it wasn t able to effectively manage the bot traffic invading its platform and hadn t differentiated itself enough from the competition to make an impact.
The startup laid off staff and said it was time to go back to the drawing board. Rose, a partner at True Ventures, returned to work full-time on a new version of Digg in April.
On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was.