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 might shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way in which individuals use the net has developed, and it wanted to give attention to 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 occupied with buying Pocket from Mozilla.
Tagging each Mozilla and Pocket on the put up, Rose wrote, “We love Pocket at Digg, pleased to take it over and proceed to assist your customers for years to come back.” The put up moreover tagged Betaworks founding associate 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. Nonetheless, the deal could possibly be attention-grabbing if it went by way of, as Digg may leverage Pocket’s current consumer base to gas curiosity in its relaunch. Digg may probably 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 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 just 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 might have put Selig out of enterprise.