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Digg.com’s Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs
It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg’s headquarters above the grungy offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill. This [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 29th, 2006

A Day in the Life of a Digg
If you haven’t heard of social bookmarking sites, you’re missing out on a new web phenomenon. In a nutshell, social bookmarking sites allow you to store links to web pages you like on a publicly accessible web site where others can see them. The benefit of this sharing [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 25th, 2006

Digg Blog: Digg Labs Launches (alpha)
labs.digg.com - A broader, deeper view of Digg
Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it. By providing broader and deeper views of activity on the site, the tools and projects in Labs aim [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 18th, 2006

TechCrunch ยป Digg to Add Sports, Swarm & Stack
Version 3 of Digg launched late last month with tweaks to the user interface, and new categories to expand Digg beyond technology news. The release, along with user stats that show massive growth, pushed Digg into the consciousness of mainstream Internet users for the first time. For [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 16th, 2006

Slashboinged!
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InformationWeek Weblog: Accidental Entrepreneurs
If you’re at all dissatisfied with your job, this is a tough week for you. You’ve got a four-day weekend behind you, and the height of the long, hot summer ahead of you. Plenty of time to sit and daydream about telling the boss to take a hike and making money doing [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 26th, 2006

OK… Digg v3 went live, but what are we getting?
Looking at the interface things seem ok, but as has been commented numerous times in this thread there are issues:

Fixed width doesn’t always work.
The site now uses fixed width so on large monitors you end up with huge spaces on each side… and small text in [...]

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