1. Digg's Refreshed Interface Despite the fact that Digg's most recent interface tweak cost them a great deal of users, they plan to redesign the website in order to bring back customers. Though the design does not change much aesthetically, it will be important in helping determine whether or not Digg will survive in the future. Digg Redesign Coming To Bring Back Old Users 2. Will...
This past Thursday, AlterNet ran a story about a group of approximatively 100 conservatives, known as Digg Patriots, that was gaming the Digg system by burying stories it didn’t agree with and voting up (or Digging) the stories it did. What followed was a maelstrom of incredulous blog posts through out the tech blogosphere over what a horrific event this was, and could Digg ever...
After months of promises, Digg has finally taken the wraps off its redesign. While overall it is a wholly much more pleasing experience to use, will it be enough to recapture some of its fading glory? Invites began going out on the evening of June 30th to get in and experience what is being referred to as “Digg Alpha”. After a few hours of a total inability to log in, the site...
It would seem that the people behind Digg have finally gotten the idea that things were going terribly off the tracks for them. The sudden change in its Chief Executive Officer, followed very quickly by two rather major announcements in regards to how the site works makes one think the company knew it had some problems, and they needed to be fixed as soon as possible. Jay Adelson,...
At one time in blog publishing, the ultimate goal was to hit the front page of Digg. Getting a story voted up to the point of being made popular enough to be on the front page meant you could see a rush of traffic to your site in the tens of thousands. This occurrence is known as “The Digg Effect”, and while it could cripple some servers under the strain, especially if they are hosted...
There was a time where every blog under the Sun had the ubiquitous “Digg” button so that you could vote their stories up on the popular news aggregation site, but seemingly over night those buttons got replaced with the Twitter ReTweet buttons from TweetMeme. What happened? What caused this sudden shift in the social landscape, and is there any way that Digg can recover its former...