So the interwebs suggest that Microsoft is looking to buy Digg. I hope, for the sake of my stock that they are just trying to drive up the price for Google. A cheaper solution would be to buy/hire the developers of Kigg & DotNetKicks & the guy that writes Feedhead for Facebook and let them tackle the problem with the Live.com resources them.
I’m sure they could be had a hell of a lot cheaper, would be good talent, and save a billion or so dollars in the long run.
I’m sure other people will say “It’s about the users.” Well, Digg is not a community like Flickr is. I’m sure it’s overvalued right now (why would they want to sell). Everyone else is proving they can build it themselves, and really, how important is Digg in your daily life? It’s a feature and not a necessity… and a nice to have feature at that.