Serial entrepreneur Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and Revision3, has been pretty quiet since joining Google Ventures as a VC. But a new YouTube video posted this weekend indicates that he’s itching to jump back into the startup game, possibly with a blogging tool called Tiny.
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Rose announced the prototype blogging platform via Twitter on Sunday night.
I have a new web idea, here is a rough prototype, what do you think? http://t.co/UkOyEXy8hl
— Kevin Rose (@kevinrose) December 15, 2013
In the video demo of the product (see above), which also credits Marc Hemeon, a designer at Google and a fellow Digg alum, and Bjoern Zinssmeister, Rose says that the idea behind the tool is to make reading a person’s blog post more personal by giving the reader a visual of the writer in the background.

The tool blurs the image of the blog post writer, allowing the reader to see the environment and possibly the mood of the writer in association with the text post. Tiny also puts a background filter (either wood grain or a dotted pattern) behind the text and over the blurred moving footage of the person.
It’s not clear whether this means Rose is about to call an end to his VC career, or just hashing out software ideas for fun. In the video, Rose said, “I’m not building this product right now but I feel like there’s something to this so I just wanted to share it with the world and get your feedback.”
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