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Can Digg Spring Back?
- TechCrunch, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:35 PM
What's the matter with Digg -- the five-year-old news aggregator that some analysts have called, 'past its prime'? "Too many cooks in the kitchen," insists TechCrunch. "When too many people have
product input, you've got lots of features but no soul." Furthermore, "Product should be a dictatorship ... Not consensus driven." By contrast, TechCrunch attributes Facebook's rapid rise to turning a
deaf ear to critics and frequently "revolting" users.
As a result, Digg has been standing still now "for years" as Facebook, Twitter and others have "run laps around it." That said,
TechCrunch believes that Digg founder Kevin Rose still has fight left in him. "He came back to the company that he essentially walked out on last year out of frustration," the blog writes. "He's
gotten his investors to give him six months to show how he can turn Digg around ... His core team, including Chas Edwards and Keval Desai, share his new vision, we've heard ... Maybe something strong
is coming soon."
