A Conversation with Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson
summary
Digg reports 40 million users and about 20,000 submissions a day, running a Dig Ads product with a 2–3% click-through rate and exploring syndication; Dig Trends is a timed blind vote (10 minutes) that promotes roughly half of candidates to the front page; regional home pages and per-topic feeds are prototyped, backend migrates to Cassandra for real-time scale, WeFollow (800k profiles) is folded in, a writable API and user data export exist, and advice favors cheap prototyping and rapid iteration.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22Whats next for Dig
- 6:03Regional home pages
- 7:02Data release
- 8:10Ad system
- 9:37Acquisition
- 10:26Entrepreneurship
- 13:32Go it alone
- 15:15Opportunities for entrepreneurs
- 16:48Other startups
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