Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
Digg is still alive?
It's going to re-launch soon
What is dead can never die
It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.
It was restarted in like the last year.
I missed out on Digg and started right with Reddit, if it is alive or back, it would be a fun experiment (or maybe not a fun one).
No.
Rose just bought the name back. It’s relaunching soon.
I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.
Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.
Good news for Kobo owners!
As someone who's never used Pocket but recently got a Kobo and saw there's an integration, I was a little annoyed they were shutting it down. I wonder if Kobo will create their own service to fill the gap? Given how hackable the device is, I'm sure the community will if they don't.
Same. I literally got a Kobo last week (hoping for a Mother's Day sale that never happened).
I hope that we can just transition form Mozilla Pocket to Digg Pocket without much hassle, but that probably won't happen. I understand all the hate for Pocket I've seen over the last two days because it's useless to most people, but man, there's a really good use case for Kobo owners.
Thank goodness, my smattering of defunct porn links will be saved
Didn’t know he did something on Screen Savers. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.
EDIT oh I see I misread the dates in OP. It makes more sense now.
Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner (sneaky). Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit. Now he’s trying to revive it with one of the Reddit cofounders after more than a decade.
I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.
I still call him the Dark Tipper
I used to be in a constant state of amazement that there was a cable TV channel dedicated to gaming. Screen savers was such a fun show.
Used screen savers to bootstrap digg by free advertising
I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.
That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?
But I've not used either in many years, and I've never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it's possible Pocket went down that route, too.
Wish someone had done this for Reader
He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.
If its not turned into a pay thing take it!