There are rumours circulating that Yahoo may be interested in acquiring social bookmarking/ technology site Digg. Rodney Smith blogged about this about three weeks ago and Thomas Hawk’s added his argument and slant on this subject.
Personally I think adding Digg to their existing social networking stable of products would make enormous business sense for Yahoo. Digg, a tech news site with an existing user base and undeniable potential for expansion into other subject areas, seems an irresistible acquisition. As mentioned before I firmly believe the future of web search is not solely with the best algorithm but how well it’s integrated with the human element of such social networking sites. The question that remains is whether Digg and the VC’s that invested would be willing to talk business.
wrote an article on my site comparing slashdot.org and digg.com – I’d like you to come over and add your imput to the discussion if you have some time. There are also other articles on web2.0 applications etc that you might find interesting.
http://blog.monkeywork.net/?p=145
[...] More and more rumours are circulating about Digg being snapped up by the Web 2.0 harvester that is Yahoo. $30m is the figure circulating and my point of view is there is no smoke without fire. Both the Search Engine Journal and Techcrunch have posted on this along with countless others recently and I, for one, am keen to see this happen. I posted more on this subject over two weeks ago and have touched on the benefits in another post. According to Kevin Burton’s blog, it’s not a matter of if but when and the announcement could be as soon as next week! // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]