What one should know about Digg’s Kevin Rose

Posted on 11 décembre 2007 at 11:10 in Business, Media | No comment

Web3-2 002 When asked if there were “any Digg fans in the room”, the audience reacted with moderate enthusiasm. “Well, there are, like, three”, Kevin Rose laughed. This was a good way to introduce his conversation with journalist Sarah Lacy.

The session, “Making your information social,” actually turned into a cosy exchange between the journalist and the creator of Digg.com. During the whole time he was on stage, someone in the audience held a “Digg this!” banner in front of the cameras.

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Kevin Rose democratizes the editor’s role

Posted on 10 décembre 2007 at 14:34 in Business, Media | No comment

800px-Kevin_Rose_Feb06He 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. Read more

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