Digsby launched a new desktop client of their service today at DEMO that is designed for mainstream social media users. Digsby is a desktop application that allows for simultanious management of your IM, e-mail, and social network accounts (Facebook and Twitter). Their new client is cool and can be recommended to mainstream Twitter users and average social networking addicts.
The interesting thing about this New York based startup is that they have low costs (7 FTE), virtually no scaling issues (it is a desktop app, that connects with the services directly), are not venture backed (only angel round), have an interesting business model (selling CPU cycles of idle computers of Digsby users, see video) and have 1.5 million downloads, managing over 4 million acounts and counting.
CEO Steve Shapiro tells me about Digsby, their business model and also did not commented on 3 of my questions… He took the pain, some classic content.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isa6HftRlts[/youtube]
Nice interview Patrick
Thanks for letting us know about this new social networking tool. I am a little curious though about the request to use people’s computer processing time so it can be “sold “. Is this any kind of security threat for the average computer user?
That is fucking hilarious. so so awesome. We should end all interviews with pushups. :)
With Digsby cyber criminals don’t need to infect pc-s with trojans to create a bot net. They just buy some processing time from Digsby :D
McAfee Siteadvisor has classified Digsby as a Yellow Site. It will probably go up to Red when they complete their analysis of the Digsby executable.
Current reason for the yellow status:
“In our tests, some downloads on this site tried to change some of our system settings.”
After hearing the presentation and their business model, I think Digsby will definitely receive a McAfee Red Kiss of Death.
Screenshot?