Once-prominent social news aggregator Digg has announced its sale to Betaworks, which will fold Digg into its News.me daily briefing service. After Digg’s startup launch in 2004, it quickly became one of the most popular social sites on the Web by letting users collect their own assortment of digital news and content and vote on their favorites. But an unpopular redesign and competition from similar sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit rendered the site less relevant in recent years.
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Digg Hits Rock Bottom
Posted by: Rachelle Dragani July 13, 2012 10:38 AMOnce-prominent social news aggregator Digg has announced its sale to Betaworks, which will fold Digg into its News.me daily briefing service. After Digg’s startup launch in 2004, it quickly became one of the most popular social sites on the Web by letting users collect their own assortment of digital news and content and vote on their favorites. But an unpopular redesign and competition from similar sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit rendered the site less relevant in recent years.