Google hires Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose has been something of an Internet icon since the start of the Web 2.0 trend. Rose has been the co-founder or founder of a number of ventures including Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. The products born from Rose's companies have spanned the gamut from Internet TV, socially curated news, micro-blogging, and even product ranking with his Oink app. And now, starting Monday, Kevin Rose will be a Google employee.
The report says that Google will not be explicitly purchasing Rose's latest company, Milk, which killed off Oink, its only app, just yesterday. Rather, Google will be hiring Rose as well as a few key people from the Milk team. Given the products Rose has been a part of befo... »read more

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