Video: Scott Rafer interviews Kevin Rose (Digg.com)

Written on May 28, 2008 – 9:17 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Scott Rafer, the Succesful Serial Entrepreneur, co-founder of Mashery, previously CEO of MyBlogLog and currently CEO of Lookery interviewed Kevin Rose, co-founder Revision3, Pownce and Digg.com at The Next Web Conference 2008. This is a very personal interview in which Kevin talks about his own experiences and even comments on upcoming features on Digg.

The original post titled “Kevin Rose: ‘Digg will soon start suggesting stories’” (published 3 minutes after the interview was done) made it to the Digg front page with more than 2500 Diggs.

The Interview:

Scott Rafer interview Kevin Rose (Digg.com) from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.

Also see our other Next Web Conference videos:

Adeo Ressi (TheFunded.com):
http://thenextweb.org/2008/05/22/video-adeo-ressi-thefundedcom-at-the-next-web-conference-2008/

Khris Loux (js-kit.com):
http://thenextweb.org/2008/05/26/video-khris-loux-js-kitcom-at-the-next-web-conference-2008/

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on May 28, 2008

Really happy Kevin Rose gave us that scoop! Recently, he said in an interview with Loren Feldman’s puppet that he’s still working on the recommendation system: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....evin-rose/

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By Wouter on May 28, 2008

Great to see this interview again, good stuff.

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By Maarten Peschier on May 28, 2008

I watched this interview on the live stream. Good to see it again, thanks for sharing!

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