He has a chubby face and teenage style, but don’t let appearances fool you - Kevin Rose is an experienced businessman and regularly appears on magazine covers as the head of the bookmarking website Digg.com. In the last three years, he has become a man who cannot be ignored on the Web.
Robert Kevin Rose was born on Feb. 21, 1977 in California. In the late 90s, he left his data-processing studies to join the United States Department of Energy (DOE). Then he moved to San Francisco to flex his talents in different start-ups. When the dot-com bubble popped in 2000, Rose started to produce TV shows. He came back to the Web in 2003.
On Nov. 1, 2004, Rose launched Digg, one of the first news websites gathering blogs and RSS feeds edited by the readers themselves. The principle behind Digg is quite simple - anyone can vote for an article according to how interesting he finds it. The more votes an article has, the higher it rises in the website’s hierarchy. Negative votes can make an article fall down the ratings.
Digg is now part of the 100 most visited websites in the world, with 600,000 visitors a day. In 2006, Rose’s personal fortune was estimated at about 60 million dollars by Business Week. He still owns between 30 and 40% of Digg.
Rose holds the conference “Making your information social” on Tuesday Dec. 11, at 9:40 am.
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