Microblogging service Pownce announced today that it has been acquired by Six Apart, the blogging software and hosting company behind Moveable Type, Vox, and TypePad. Pownce will shut down two weeks from now, on December 15. Buyer Six Apart says they are “very sorry the site will be closing.”
Founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose and Daniel [...]
Revision 3, the video podcast production network launched by Digg founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, today announced the elimination of three of its original shows. The layoffs are said to include nine staff members. The cancelled shows are Pop Siren, Internet Superstar, and the longer-running Photoshop show Pixel Perfect.
Of the two newer shows, Internet [...]
In this video, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation do a demo for Microsoft’s Zune digital media player.
Yeah - it’s an informercial. What makes it interesting, though, is that Microsoft is turning to video podcasters to help get the Zune some geek cred.
This wouldn’t work with all products, and this sort of product placement [...]
Revision3, the video podcasting network launched by the guys from Digg, has introduced a new weekly show, The Digg Reel, that offers 15-minutes of highlights from the highest-rated videos on Digg for that week.
“There’s so much crap out there, it’s great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can watch [...]
Digg announced an update today that puts viral videos front and center on the site’s home page.
“We’ve gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page,” said Digg’s¬†Daniel Burka. ¬†”We‚Äôve gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people miss [...]
Revision3, the San Francisco startup behind the Internet TV shows Diggnation and XLR8RTV, has raised $8 million more from investors.
Revision3 is one of several companies pioneering commercial video podcast networks. Their shows can be viewed online or downloaded for viewing on portable media players such as iPods or devices like the Apple TV.
The company calls [...]
Digg has introduced a new option for podcasters that are concerned that Digg’s new Podcast section, introduced Monday, will steal their site traffic and ad revenue:
Some of you podcasters have asked whether we can give better exposure to your own web sites on Digg’s pages. As you know, Digg lets you play audio and video [...]
Digg, a popular social networking news bookmarking site, introduced an update today that makes podcasting a major feature of the site. The site is also emphasizing video bookmarking, making multimedia much more prominent than it had previously been.
The change could dramatically change the face of podcast discovery, as Digg focuses on the viral spread of [...]
What do you get when you mix Diggnation’s Kevin Rose with beer?
Details on the upcoming Apple iPhone.
According to Kevin, there are two models, 4 GB and 8 GB, priced at $249 and $449, with support for multiple carrier systems. The device will feature a slide-out keyboard, a touch screen and two batteries (one for [...]
Digg dudes Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, along with David Prager (TechTV, G4), Dan Huard, and Ron Gorodetzky, dig doing downloadable video so much that they’ve created a new media company, Revision3, to do it.
According to the company, “Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, [...]
