The imminent disappearance of Pocket has been deplored in industry. Now, an entrepreneur has expressed interest in keeping him alive. Kevin Rose – who founded Digg.com, has become a venture capital and now tries to bring Digg – asked Mozilla to let Digg take the pocket.
Rose has published a tweet on X (via Techcrunch, which belongs to Foundry but which operates independently of PCworld) which supports both Pocket and Mozilla petitions to move it forward. “We love the pocket at @digg, happy to take it back and continue to support your users for years to come!”
On May 22, Mozilla said she would close both Pocket and Fakespot. Fakespot analyzes the authenticity of user reviews. Pocket, however, was a subscription service that allowed users to save publications and online items for later – in fact a bookmark, although Mozilla presented it as an “online discovery application”.
This description tackles what Digg was, and probably what it could be again. In 2010, DIGG published a major overhaul of its site and users rebelled for a certain number of reasons, including a virtual monopoly on the site by a handful of power users as well as the deletion of the “Downvote” button. Now Rose has a chance to win the Internet again with the revival of Digg – and this time, he joins Alexis Ohanian, co -founder of Reddit. In the tweet, Rose also scored Peter Rojas, who founded Gizmodo, Engadget and Joystiq.
If nothing else, Rose’s Tweet has won the next digg revised free advertising, which the site will need to succeed.
