Digg, the Net 2.0-era hyperlink aggregator that’s now being given a second likelihood at life, is open to purchasing Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket.
On Thursday, Mozilla introduced it might shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the best way folks use the online has advanced, and it wanted to deal with new areas of improvement. Shortly after, Kevin Rose, Digg’s authentic proprietor, now co-founder of the brand new Digg alongside Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, posted on X that his firm could be fascinated by buying Pocket from Mozilla.
Tagging each Mozilla and Pocket on the submit, Rose wrote, “We love Pocket at Digg, pleased to take it over and proceed to assist your customers for years to return.” The submit moreover tagged Betaworks founding companion Peter Rojas, beforehand the founding father of Gizmodo and Engadget.
Neither Digg nor Mozilla has but to reply to a request for touch upon the information. Nevertheless, the deal may very well be fascinating if it went via, as Digg might leverage Pocket’s current consumer base to gasoline curiosity in its relaunch. Digg might doubtlessly even combine Pocket’s studying record with Digg, making it simpler for customers to seek out and share participating content material on to the information aggregator. This might present an preliminary pipeline for feeding information and articles into Digg whereas it labored to develop its consumer base.
Digg’s comeback has attracted consideration, because it pairs Digg’s authentic founder, Rose, with Ohanian, who helped create the longtime Digg competitor, Reddit, now an web big of its personal. Digg lately introduced it has additionally introduced on Christian Selig, the founding father of the third-party Reddit app Apollo, as an adviser. Selig’s Apollo app had been the most effective methods to work together with Reddit, however the firm reduce off the app’s entry by elevating its API pricing to the purpose that it might have put Selig out of enterprise.
