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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Didn’t know he did something on Screen Savers. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.

EDIT oh I see I misread the dates in OP. It makes more sense now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner (sneaky). Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit. Now he’s trying to revive it with one of the Reddit cofounders after more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He was literally on air talent lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I still call him the Dark Tipper

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I used to be in a constant state of amazement that there was a cable TV channel dedicated to gaming. Screen savers was such a fun show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Used screen savers to bootstrap digg by free advertising