Summary: Episode 171 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #171: Don’t Trust The Users (MP3, 35:18, 33.9MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as color pallets for websites, the sale of Digg, password security and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Betaworks to Buy Fallen Social Media Star Digg – WSJ.com and Digg Sold To LinkedIn AND The Washington Post And Betaworks | TechCrunch via Cashing Out: Week of July 8th – 14th 2012 in Online Marketing News | ReveNews Hackers post over 400,000 Yahoo! Voice passwords online | CSO with Secure Salted Password Hashing – How to do it Properly How to choose a colour scheme | Creative Bloq Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/171. Host Spotlights Louis: Shell in the Arctic | Shell by The Yes Men Kevin: MVC is dead, it’s time to MOVE on. Patrick: The “GOODBYE I HATE YOU ALL” post generator Interview Transcript Louis: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. We’ve got a panel show this week, Talking about the latest news and developments in the world of the world wide web. Stephan is away this week but Kevin and Patrick are both here with me, hi guys. Kevin: Howdy howdy. Patrick: Hello! Louis: How is everyone going? Kevin: I am marvellous. Patrick, Excellent, doing great. Louis: Fantastic, it’s good to hear it. Patrick: One of the bigger stories in the past week is the sale of Digg, and it was initially reported that it was sold for $500k to a company called Betaworks, which might be best know for owning bit.ly the popular URL shortener. It was later reported by TechCrunch that the entirely of Digg everything that made up the company was sold for about $16M and how that broke down is that the Washington Post bought the talent, they are paying about $12M for what was left of the Digg team, Linkdin paid between $3.75M and $4M for about 15 patents that Digg held, and finally Betaworks bought the remainder for $500k – $700k. So they (Betaworks) bought the name, the domain, whatever that was on the website, those assets were acquired by Betaworks. In addition to the $500k they issues Digg shareholders with some warrants in the combined company that will be Digg and News.me which is Betaworks’ company that they are looking to fork this technology into. Now, of course Digg is well known in tech circles and their refusal to be bought out is also well known, they apparently had a reported offer back in 2008 from Google for $200M and now have sold for about $16M and according to CrunchBase they raised at least $45M dollars in venture money. A lot of startups rise and fall, and I don’t know if this is one of those stories but it seemed more interesting to me just because of the well known name that’s attached to it, Digg. I was a Digg user for a little while, not really that hardcore, but for a little while and, I don’t know, we’re guys on Digg? Were you into Digg? Louis: Super briefly, but yeah. Patrick: Kevin? Kevin: Yeah, I started using it when the new version… I mean, I’d use it on and off, of course. I mean, you can’t avoid Digg. But I’d basically create an account to try it [...]
