Digg, the Web 2.0-era hyperlink aggregator that’s now being given a second probability at life, is open to purchasing Mozilla’s read-it-later app, Pocket.
On Thursday, Mozilla introduced it could shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way in which folks use the online has developed, and it wanted to give attention to new areas of growth. 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 can be thinking about buying Pocket from Mozilla.
Tagging each Mozilla and Pocket on the submit, Rose wrote, “We love Pocket at Digg, glad to take it over and proceed to help your customers for years to return.” The submit moreover tagged Betaworks founding accomplice 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. However, the deal could possibly be attention-grabbing if it went via, as Digg may leverage Pocket’s present person base to gas curiosity in its relaunch. Digg may doubtlessly even combine Pocket’s studying checklist with Digg, making it simpler for customers to search out and share partaking content material on to the information aggregator. This may present an preliminary pipeline for feeding information and articles into Digg whereas it labored to develop its person 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 probably the greatest methods to work together with Reddit, however the firm lower off the app’s entry by elevating its API pricing to the purpose that it could have put Selig out of enterprise.
