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Kevin Rose says Digg to launch headline suggestions

Kevin Rose wants you to read all about itCAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Coming to a browser near you: "People who liked this article also liked these articles." That's right — according to founder Kevin Rose, Digg is getting ready to do to news what Amazon.com did to shopping. At a panel at Technology Review's EmTech conference, Rose said that Digg would be launching a "suggestion service" in a few months. It's a natural move, after Digg introduced social-networking features that let you better track the headlines your friends find interesting; mining that data to find patterns and present users with similar articles just makes sense. Still, it could spell a radical shift in news consumption — a move that brings us closer to the vision of the "Daily Me," a techie vision of a completely personalized news outlet. (Photo by Lane Hartwell for Valleywag)

6:14 AM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By Owen Thomas
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  • Image of Ted Dziuba Ted Dziuba at 09:33 AM on 09/26/07
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    owen this reads like a techcrunch press release. what gives?

  • No commenter image uploaded ResearchZilla at 09:50 AM on 09/26/07
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    um, and in equally interesting news, this morning my son's blister popped while at recess...seriously. is this news? didn't amazon add a new button or didn't google change a font? what blog am i on here?

  • Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas at 10:55 AM on 09/26/07
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    @uncoveditor: You're right. Clearly I was taken in by Kevin Rose's Steve-Jobs-lite reality distortion field.

  • No commenter image uploaded sggrf at 11:41 AM on 09/26/07
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    I continue to take a contrarian view on this company. Someone like AOL, Yahoo or MSN picks them up for $100M or they go out of business. I think this is a feature masquerading as a company.

  • No commenter image uploaded sample032 at 11:44 AM on 09/26/07
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    I can't remember the name, but I ran across a startup that only did that; suggest stories based on what you might like.

    Kevin: go work on something else. Slashdot quit adding features, and they kept their userbase. Your userbase is so demographically challenged as it is that a new feature won't help Digg.

    Aside: Does Kevin Rose actually do anything for Digg, or is he nothing more than a character created by Digg marketing?

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