• Kevin Rose is the founder of the popular social-bookmarking website Digg, and the co-host of the site's podcast tie-in, Diggnation. He started his career in television as the host of TechTV's series The Screen Savers, which later underwent a name change to become Attack of the Show. As an entrepreneur, Rose also co-founded Revision3 and the short-lived microblogging service Pownce.

  On March 11, 2009, Rose and his Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht were guests on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

• 1. Born: February 21, 1977 in Redding, California
  2. Location: San Francisco, California
  3. Co-Host of Diggnation with Alex Albrecht
  4. Founder of Revision3, Pownce and Digg.
  5. Co-Host of The Screen Savers between March 31, 2004 and May 22, 2005
  6. Transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1993 to study computers and animation.
  7. Frequently appears on the weekly podcast This Week In Tech
  8. Initial investment in Digg: $6,000BusinessWeek: Valley Boys (2006)
  9. Digg launched in December of 2004

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