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The New Digg is Old Again?

Last night I’ve got an invitation from Digg.com to try the upcoming new look of their frontend.
Firstly, I have been surprised with the fact that Digg is pursuing a new design at this point because they had a major change of pretty everything just a few moths ago.
The first thing I have thought, before I [...]

SubDigger+ to Help in Recovering Lost Digg Community?

A plenty of time has passed after Digg has launched its new version which has banished the most active Digg users, it seems that Digg has started to learn on its own mistakes and started to bring back some old features.
After the launch of the new version about less than a half year ago, Digg [...]

Reddit Traffic Increased After Digg Users Started to Digg Reddit

I was curious to see the Alexa stats for Reddit.com after Digg users started to vote for all submissions from Reddit’s account on the new Digg platform.
Just to remind you, Reddit has almost completelly took the front page i.e. Top News section of Digg.com a few days ago, and this was the main cause Digg [...]

First Major Changes on Digg’s New Platform Expected This Week

I was thinking that all this Reddit thing on Digg is going to be over pretty soon but today is the third day since Reddit has started to rule on the Digg’s frontpage.
It seems that Digg has done some fixes on their algorithm which choses which stories are going to hit Top News section but [...]

Kevin Rose Steps Down As Digg CEO, Replaced by Matt Williams

As many of you have already noticed, these days we have a plenty of things to inform about happenings in Digg’s headquarters and about the Digg itself.
The latest news is that Digg has finally found its new CEO. The new CEO of Digg is going to be former Amazon Exec Matt Williams which is also [...]

Oh No What’s Happening? Reddit is all Over the Digg!

I woke up this morning and I went to Digg.com to see if there is something other than Mashable and Engadget articles in Top News section and I was surprised when I saw this.

While I am writing this article, there are 11 links from Reddit in Top News section on Digg.com and unlike the other [...]

Secondary Market: Facebook Worth Estimated at $33,7 Billion

Most of us still remembers the time when Youtube was purchased by Google for 1,65 billion dollars. At the time, this was incredible price to be paid for one website but, obviously, times are changing.
Today Mashable has brought a story about Secondary market’s valuation of Facebook. Secondary market has estimated that the current value of [...]

Is Reddit.com Too Big Bite for Ben Huh?

The owner of Cheezburger blog network has attracted some attention to itself with claiming that he is willing to buy a Reddit, a social bookmarking community similar to Digg.
Reddit is currently owned by Condé Nast corporation which has bought it in 2006.
Allegedly, Huh is interested to buy Reddit because because he likes the community.
Ben spoke [...]

The New Digg Has Been Finally Rolled Out

Last time when I was writing about Digg I was pretty optimistic about their possible success on international level and I haven’t changed my thoughts about that.
However, today Digg has finally rolled out their new version and old version has became a part of history. This was the first time for me to actually have [...]

The New Version of Digg is Going to be a Huge Success on International Level

As the most of us already know, the new version of Digg is just about to come. We are not going to discuss about the eventual disadvantages of the new version of Digg but that doesn’t mean that I do not believe the new version will be perfect. Every change has its advantages and disadvantages. [...]