Digg is a news/content aggregation website founded by Kevin Rose in 2004. It allows users to submit and vote on stories from around the web, surfacing the most popular submissions. As a form of social curation, Digg provides a way for its users to stay informed by seeing trending stories that may break before traditional media. Similar sites like Reddit and Stumbleupon also rely on user submissions but Digg was very influential as one of the earliest examples of participatory media on the web.