Digg CEO Jay Adelson talked about the new features offered by the popular social bookmarking site at the “Bigg Digg Schindigg” hosted by the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi). Despite being unavailable at the moment, users can sign up for the Alpha version of the site by visiting Digg New.
In addition to personalized feeds, the new and improved Digg will also be revealing an updated version of its popular website buttons. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and OpenID users will be able to log into Digg from their chosen account.
According to an interview conducted by Mashable, “Users will be able to Digg and submit stories anonymously. Adelson says that this fundamental change will move the site from 20,000 submissions today to millions.”
Readers flooded online bulletin boards with comments and concerns. This is what they had to say:
meruru on 03/15/2010: “So as a user with no Digg friends, no facebook account, and no twitter account is my home page just going to be blank?”
mrjingleheimer on 03/15/2010: “Brace yourself for a facebook and twitter user invasion. It will not be a fun invasion. Don’t see why digg can’t just be digg, but at the same time I do: advertising revenues.”
radicaldementia on 03/15/2010: “I’m worried that Digg will be moving even further away from its roots and turning more into “generic social media site”. I don’t use facebook, twitter, or any of that nonsense, and I’m starting to get the feeling that digg is catering so much to those crowds that people like me will be left in the dust. But until I actually try out the new site, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume all upcoming changes will be loaded with awesomeness.”
Despite concerns, Digg’s Steve French had this to say: “Top to bottom, the entire company has been in overdrive for this project. There are amazing things coming, and I’m glad the screen shots and presentation didn’t spill everything we have in the works for you guys.
My favorite new feature… it’s *blazing* fast. There has been a lot of effort that’s gone into the architecture and monitoring of performance.” We all look forward to seeing this site take off and reach the top of the internet marketing realm.
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I am in little confuse.How much money is You-tube and Digg.com making from Ron Paul related content?thanks.
If there was a unique social media platform, that allowed you to develop and enhance a deeper and more meaningful connection, with your own personal reflection and sense of style,that could be useful, and fun, as well as utilized on a daily basis would you be interested?
Two Days ago my profile views on Digg was around 256 views. For whatever reason, my profile views have jumped from 256 to 1100 within 2 days. Why did it suddenly jump so high?
I have an article on my blog that needs a Digg button on it (so ppl can Digg it) but I can’t figure out how.thanks
I want to make revenue using ad-sense and doing affiliate marketing and i am completely lost on the whole process of getting started. I am more of a hands on learner that learns best by being shown how to do it first and then practicing over and over to get it right. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have a lot of quality content. I have posted links of several articles on Digg.com but they only get a mere attention. What i assume no one on Digg is suppose to read an article is it true? or what should i do to get traffic on my blog?thanks.
I’m trying to get testimonials on how Digg, Myspace, Linkedin, all the social networking sites have increased your business. Please provide some great ones. Thanks.
How much should I charge a business for setting up social media for them?thanks.
I like you use face-book and or bebo and or my-space,what ones are well now? like face-book.Thanks.
Somebody using my identity to create social media sites .I need to prevent that .please help me thanks in advance.