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Big News: Expanding & Growing Digg

WebLaunches — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:28:45 +0000

Today is a big day for Digg. Here is the announcement from Jay Adelson

We are announcing a major expansion effort – the largest we have undergone in our history. We’re accelerating many of the programs that we’ve been working on over the past several months, including investments in infrastructure, new feature development, and international expansion.

Of Digg’s over 30 million unique monthly users, almost half are from outside of the U.S., so this expansion will also include initiatives aimed at making Digg more relevant to local tastes, including local languages. We will begin laying the groundwork for that immediately with the beginning of our international growth strategy in early 2009.

Other initiatives will focus on expanding our community outreach programs and developing more sophisticated tools and interfaces for publishers.

To help support all of this, we will be significantly growing the size of the Digg team in the next year and moving to larger San Francisco offices that give us the room we need to do it. We’re hiring, so check out our jobs page. Fueling the acceleration of all of these programs is our revenue success to date, along with a new $28.7 million round in funding, led by Highland Capital Partners.

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5 Most Screwed-Up Tech Buys

WebLaunches — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:22:02 +0000

As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns in history

Time 100 Includes Ballmer, Jobs, Arrington, Zuckerberg

WebLaunches — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:54:31 +0000

“You’re reading it here first … the tech-related members of the much-hyped Time 100 due to be announced on Time.com overnight and at newsstands Friday: Jay Adelson, Paul Allen, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy; Mark Zuckerberg.”