{"id":671272,"date":"2025-05-25T02:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T02:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:20:24","slug":"digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digg-founder-kevin-rose-offers-to-buy-pocket-from-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digg, the Web 2.0<\/a>-era link aggregator that\u2019s now being given a second chance at life, is open to buying Mozilla\u2019s read-it-later app<\/a>, Pocket.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mozilla announced it would shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way people use the web has evolved, and it needed to focus on new areas of development. Shortly after, Kevin Rose, Digg\u2019s original owner, now co-founder of the new Digg alongside Reddit<\/a> co-founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on X<\/a> that his company would be interested in acquiring Pocket from Mozilla.<\/p>\n

Tagging both Mozilla and Pocket on the post, Rose wrote, \u201cwe love Pocket at @Digg, happy to take it over and continue to support your users for years to come!\u201d The post additionally tagged Betaworks founding partner Peter Rojas, previously the founder of Gizmodo and Engadget, now SVP New Products at Mozilla. <\/p>\n

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Neither Digg nor Mozilla has yet to respond to a request for comment on the news<\/a>. However, the deal could be interesting if it went through, as Digg could leverage Pocket\u2019s existing user base to fuel interest in its relaunch. Digg could potentially even integrate Pocket\u2019s reading list with Digg, making it easier for users to find and share engaging content directly to the news aggregator. This could provide an initial pipeline for feeding news and articles into Digg while it worked to grow its user base. <\/p>\n

Digg\u2019s comeback has attracted attention, as it pairs Digg\u2019s original founder, Rose, with Ohanian, who helped create the longtime Digg competitor, Reddit, now an internet giant of its own. Digg recently announced it has also brought on Christian Selig, the founder of the third-party Reddit app Apollo, as an adviser. Selig\u2019s Apollo app had been one of the best ways to interact with Reddit, but the company cut off the app\u2019s access by raising its API pricing to the point that it would have put Selig out of business.<\/p>\n

Digg isn\u2019t the only one to have gone after Pocket. Medium CEO Tony Stubbleine says he also explored buying Pocket in 2023, but never heard from Mozilla before it announced it was shutting the app down. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot sure what Mozilla is doing, but it is kind of infuriating,\u201d Stubbleine told TechCrunch. \u201cThe Pocket software is easy to rebuild, but some of the infrastructure and integrations around the web would be hard to replace. So I\u2019m sure that someone would have taken it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Updated after publication with comment from Stubbleine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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