Digg is getting another reboot with two of the most prominent names of the Web 2.0 era leading the charge. Founder Kevin Rose has bought it back for an undisclosed sum. Rose’s partner in this endeavor is a very interesting one.

The question is whether we even need a homepage of the internet anymore. Especially when Reddit already exists.

Kevin Rose is bringing back Digg with help from his Moonbirds co-creator Justin Mezzell, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and AI tools.

Digg, the web portal that helped popularize upvoting and downvoting, is bringing in Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian as an adviser.

"By combining Ohanian's and Rose's historical knowledge and deep understanding of what has and hasn't worked from their experiences at Reddit and Digg with today's technological advancements – particularly in AI – Digg plans to become an online destination with humanity and connection at its core,

If your eye, like ours, gets to twitching any time big-money tech types start talking about how A.I. is going to improve the “old” internet, then here’s one that might get the ball jiggling right out of the socket: Early internet mainstay Digg is getting a reboot,