Jay S. Adelson

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Name:	Jay S. Adelson
Age:	40 (b. 1970)

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Chief Executive Officer: Digg, Inc.

Jay Adelson is a co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Digg, Inc, the social bookmarking website. Along with Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne and Ron Gorodetzky, Digg launched in December 2004. Adelson is also chairman of Revision3. Prior, he was the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc. In addition, Adelson helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States and worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build PAIX. Adelson holds degrees in Computer Science and Film and

Jay Adelson is a co-founder and current Chief Executive Officer of Digg, Inc, the social bookmarking website. Along with Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne and Ron Gorodetzky, Digg launched in December 2004.

Adelson is also chairman of Revision3. Prior, he was the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc. In addition, Adelson helped engineer Netcom, the first ISP in the United States and worked at DEC research lab in Palo Alto to build PAIX.

Adelson holds degrees in Computer Science and Film and Broadcasting from Boston University.

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3/17/10:

Coming Soon: Login to Digg With Twitter, Google and More [PIC]

This past weekend, Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the social news site is working on a complete overhaul that will be rolled out over the coming weeks and months. Today, the company provided a sneak peek of one of the major additions: the ability to login to the site using a variety of third-party ... - read more at Mashable

tags: Google Digg Twitter Facebook

3/16/10:

Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson

At last night's “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect. - read more at Digg - Tech news

tags: Digg

3/15/10:

Digg's CEO, on the Redesign: "Every Single Thing Has Changed"

Confused on what Digg was and will soon be? The aggregator in chief helps us understand how he plans to make his all-new site a must-have for social Web surfers.Digg's touting its redesign, coming in the next few months, but "redesign" doesn't really cover it. This is more htan a surface-level change, ... - read more at FastCompany - Features

tags: Digg Apple Facebook Twitter Huffington Post

3/15/10:

Details On New Digg Design Revealed At SXSW 2010

Yesterday at SXSW's "Bigg Digg Shindigg" event at Stubb's BBQ, Digg announced that it had been working on a complete redesign of its popular social recommendation site. Digg CEO Jay Adelson told attendees that the project (involving more customizable and relevant home pages, faster site, and new user ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Digg

3/15/10:

Links on Twitter: visual journalism, revamping Digg, Super Swarm ...

Just launched: @NiemanReports‘ fantastic Spring 2010 issue, exploring visual journalismhttp://j.mp/qGov » Of the 35,000 companies that build iPhone apps, 7,000 (20%) launched specifically for the iPhone platform http://j.mp/d8DPnn » A link on Wikipedia's main page pushes a 20-year-old Time article ... - read more at Nieman Journalism Lab

tags: Digg Twitter Apple Google Microsoft ABC News Facebook News Media

3/15/10:

Monday Odds and Ends

-MDC Partners continues to keep its name in the news, this time launching prodco Shout Media, which will develop branded TV and digital media content. link -Digg CEO Jay Adelson promises the throngs at Austin a new, more personalized version of the social news site. link -A study in the journal Pediatrics ... - read more at mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

tags: Google Digg Facebook

3/15/10:

SXSW: Digg.com Teases Ambitious New Version

Digg.com's annual "shindiggs" have become something of an institution at SXSW Interactive, but this year, Digg CEO Jay Adelson tried to slip a genuine product announcement into the evening's festivities. - read more at PC Magazine - Breaking News

tags: Digg

3/15/10:

Digg overhaul expected to lessen coveted traffic spikes to publishers

Say goodbye to the "Digg effect"? Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson announced a vastly revised version of its social news website at an event Saturday during the South by Southwest Interactive conference. Users will soon have a personalized news page based on a number of factors. The changes, ... - read more at LA Times Tech Blog

tags: Digg Google Facebook Twitter

3/15/10:

Big Changes Are Coming to Digg

Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools. - read more at Digg - Tech news

tags: Digg

3/14/10:

Digg announces new “blazing fast” site, Mashable partnership ...

Social news site Digg announced an upcoming launch of a radically overhauled site, new.digg.com, that will go public in the next few weeks. Personalized homepages and faster performance are among the site's major changes, as Digg struggles to compete with Twitter and Facebook for the attention spans ... - read more at V entureBeat

tags: Digg Facebook Twitter

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