Tag: KEVIN ROSE

Even if you don't use Digg or Reddit yourself, you may understand that these massive, online communities of news junkies have just as much influence as, if not more than, the major news outlets when it comes to promoting the stories you find in your daily e-mail digests and blogs. The link-happy users have constituted the Long Tail of news, bringing local and fringe stories to the mainstream with ...

After months of testing, the dramatically redesigned Digg has finally been opened to the public. Upon visiting the site, things immediately look different, but, hopefully, are sufficiently familiar to keep the social news site's user base from abandoning it. The once-king of viral news has increasingly suffered at the hands of more convenient sharing platforms like Twitter and Facebook, so, in ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... According to an official press release and new illustrated video, Google's joint operation with Sony, Intel and Logitech "seamlessly integrates your TV, DVR recordings and the entire Internet" by way of either a special television or a separate box. Google also boasts that, with various search functions, customizable home screen ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... A new concern may have reared its slippery head for game developers. GeoHot, the hacker that cracked the iPhone, has now managed to hack a PlayStation 3. Bragging to the BBC, he remarked, "I can now do whatever I want with the system. It's like I've got an awesome new power - I'm just not sure how to wield it." Two words from us: ...

Digg's Kevin Rose has a solid (but far from perfect) track record when it comes to Apple rumors, and he just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball: he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste. Kev says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass -- you use two fingers to select the text you want, and then you can cut or copy. Sure, that's great, ...

For those who have been bitten by the Twitter bug, one of the hardest things to figure out is how to really bump up that "Followers" number (those folks who read your every update, a.k.a. 'tweet' in Twitter-speak). You eye the likes of Robert Scoble with jealousy, wondering, "how can I get tens of thousands of tech-addicted nerds to pay attention to my every 140-character thought?" Well, ...

Kevin Rose (of Digg fame) claims to have the scoop on the latest iPod nano. Mind you, this is the same Kevin Rose who notoriously claimed that a generation one iPhone would launch in two versions (CDMA and GSM) with a pair of batteries and slide-out keyboard. Uh hem. This time however, he backs up his claims with this picture of a skinnier, longer, and curvier nano -- credible because it just ...