Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV’s The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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  • MisterMoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    273·
    15 hours ago

    Digg will take it over?

    I’ll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    17 hours ago

    Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.

    And while I don’t think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      26·
      16 hours ago

      My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would’ve been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.

      The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    443·
    19 hours ago

    I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.

    • chrisbit@leminal.spaceEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      As someone who’s never used Pocket but recently got a Kobo and saw there’s an integration, I was a little annoyed they were shutting it down. I wonder if Kobo will create their own service to fill the gap? Given how hackable the device is, I’m sure the community will if they don’t.

      • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        15 hours ago

        I hope that we can just transition form Mozilla Pocket to Digg Pocket without much hassle, but that probably won’t happen. I understand all the hate for Pocket I’ve seen over the last two days because it’s useless to most people, but man, there’s a really good use case for Kobo owners.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      19 hours ago

      That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

      But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    4 minutes ago

    Didn’t know he did something on Screen Savers. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.

    EDIT oh I see I misread the dates in OP. It makes more sense now.

    • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner (sneaky). Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit. Now he’s trying to revive it with one of the Reddit cofounders after more than a decade.

    • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.