Friday, October 27th, 2006, 11:44 am
Digg Acquisition Coming Up?
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CCORDING to various sources (including a seminal report from TechCrunch), Digg seeks to be acquired. The reactions are, as expected, largely rants that express dissatisfaction, particularly within the Digg community. I spotted this one comment the other day.
“If News Corp buys it, you can find me a Netscape.com or some other similar site.”
It is just one among many which speak of Slashdot, Netscape, or mention News Corp./Fox as the evil creature that could take over Digg. All in all, this is probably good news to all sites which compete with Digg. I don’t think that any company with the needed resources (and interests) is truly benevolent.
- Google – would pull “democracy” out of Digg, especially if you IP address is Chinese…
- Yahoo – would sell your Digg details…
- Microsoft – would eliminate the Apple and UNIX/Linux sections…
