Digg Founder Working on Instant Messenging Start-up?

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 by Andy Beal

Digg Founder Working on Instant Messenging Start-up?

Don’t you wish you had “sources familiar with the company”, so you could speculate on new products and acquisitions?

TechCrunch has them, so does Mashable, and Om Malik’s are telling him that Digg founder, Kevin Rose, is working on a new start-up.

We have learned from sources familiar with the company, that the trio are currently working on a new kind of a communications tool, that can be dubbed as an IM competitor. The company which is currently operating in stealth mode is going launch sometime later this month. When we contacted Rose, he declined to comment. Seems like he is going to work on this in parallel with the other two start-ups.

Would you like to be my “source familiar with the company”. Maybe you know about a pending aquisition, or you have news of Google’s new products, or perhaps you’re just lonely and have no one to talk to, except a ghostly man that lives in a small house, high up on a hill, of an island in the middle of nowhere (yes, Ben, I’m talking about you!). Seriously, any substantiated rumors are always welcomed!

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6 comments on “Digg Founder Working on Instant Messenging Start-up?”

Owen Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 11:17 am

Bah .. you had me till you mentioned you only wanted “substantiated rumours” …
Brian Chappell Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 11:31 am

Probably a good idea, since the outrage towards digg last week. Spread those eggs out. Heh.
Andy Beard Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 11:36 am

I think Om might have upset his source

Kevin Rose said in the comments

Om,

I specifically asked you not to talk about this. You will be hearing from my lawyer soon.

Kevin

Maybe it is a prankster but I would have thought the comment would have been deleted by now in that case.
Kevin Rose jumps on the Twitter-wagon « TechFold Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 11:45 am

[...] Om shares the non-news that Digg’s Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka are working on an IM-like Twitter competitor. Andy Beal, Rex Dixon, and Paris Lemon speculate further. [...]
Virtual Marketing Blog Says:

May 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

He has been on a roll lately and I expect a lot more coming out of Kevin Rose and the gang.
Evan Says:

May 14th, 2007 at 12:59 am

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