Digg

Digg is a rapidly growing website that emphasizes technology news, and combines social bookmarking, blogging, syndication, with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ (such as Slashdot).

Creators of Digg

The site was created in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson, who serves as CEO, all of whom play an active role in the management of the site. Although the domain name of Digg is registered under Jerimiah Udy, he is not one of the original founders of Digg. Jeremiah is a friend of Kevin Rose. The domain name is registered under his name because Kevin Rose did not wish to be thought to be associated with Digg, since his name is commonly related to discussions regarding the old TechTV TV station and the TV show that Kevin Rose co-hosted, The Screen Savers.

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2004 - Kevin Rose - Jay Adelson - Domain name - The Screen Savers

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