• August 31st, 2012

    Kippt, Pinboard Help Digg Users Find New Home For Old Data [Here's How]

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    After Digg’s long fall, Betaworks acquired the site in July and put its News.me team in charge. Six weeks later, the new operators launched a complete overhaul of Digg. However, while interest in Digg had remained (a surprising amount, according to new CEO John Borthwick), the new site removed user access to old data, i.e. everything Digg users had ever posted to the old iterations of the site… → Read More

    June 14th, 2012

    YC-Backed Kippt Launches Collaborative Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links

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    Last fall, Finnish designers Jori Lallo and Karri Saarinen soft-launched a simple bookmarking tool called Kippt that aimed to give users a more elegant way to store their information on the Web. At the time, Kippt was just a side project, as Lallo was working with Pownce founder Leah Culver on Convore, the YC-backed message board app.

    Since March, the founders have been focusing on their… → Read More