http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/12/2215231/diggcom-sold-to-betaworks-for-500000

"The once popular social news website Digg.com which received $45 million in funding, is being sold to to Betaworks for $500,000. From the article: 'Betaworks is acquiring the Digg brand, website, and technology, but not its employees. Digg will be folded into News.me, Betaworks' social news aggregator. This is not the outcome people expected for Digg. In 2008, Google was reportedly set to buy it for $200 million."

Ooops.

Damnit! Outbid...

$16 million?

note to self - sell out to google if they offer

srsly

note to self - sell out to google if they offer

"In 2008, Google was reportedly set to buy it for $200 million"

Was it Google that pulled out of the deal? I would imagine they knew something we didn't

I think the digg guys thought it would be worth more

Ouch

now all they are really buying is the user info for marketing, etc...

So if we all here had pooled our resources we could have owned Stax and Digg today... hmmm....

We could have bought digg, and spammed the hell out of users to join head case.

Everyone would have only bitched about new users though Ryan.

You've won this round...