Posts Tagged ‘digg’
There’s a New Digg?!
Yes, you read correctly, there is a new Digg.com. Digg version 4 to be exact. I was finally invited to the Digg v4 Alpha months ago, so that let me take a sneak peak at what was to come. And I won’t lie, the new Digg was amazing in Alpha. It is more social than ever and allows you to auto submit content from a verified RSS feed of your own. Submitting content is so much easier now, and all submitted content doesn’t have that annoying Digg Bar. YES!
Screenshot Credit: Tyler S. Miller
Yesterday, Digg rolled out the new Digg v4 to everyone and if you go to http://digg.com, you will surely see the new Digg. If not, you get a clever error page. I compare this error page to the fail whale….because it is appearing a lot. The site was fine for me yesterday, but today they must be experiencing a lot more traffic. So, the Digg version of the Twitter Fail Whale appears.
Once you get beyond the broke axle, the new Digg is awesome. It’s sleek, social, easy, and fun. I notice less ads on the site and thank them for making it that way. Not sure how long it will stay like that, but let’s hope for a while. I love the social aspect of the site now, by making a new feature called My News, Digg allows more stories to hit the users’ homepages. Before, there was one homepage, which showcased few stories daily. The new logged-in user’s homepage showcases stories relevant and dugg from their friends on the site. More stories are becoming popular and more sites get the Digg Effect. There is still the normal overall home page by clicking on Top News, where you can find all subtopics as well, but the new My News feed is key.
Overall, I like the new Digg and will keep using the site. I liked it before, but now, I actually will make it a point to log into it and check what my friends are up to. What are your reactions to the new Digg?
Stir the Nation – Episode 12
In this episode of Stir the Nation, Tyler and Roy talk about Larry King’s retirement, Woot acquired by Amazon, Microsoft Killing the Kin, the new Digg V4 and MORE!
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Digg v4 Preview
Kevin Rose, founder and current CEO of Digg.com created a video showcasing the new features in Digg V4.0. V4.0 is bound to be released very soon, and I am very impressed with the current setup. Watch this video showcasing the upcoming features:
Digg Reduces Staff by 10%
In the past week, social news site Digg has reduced their team by 10%. An official post from their blog, and CEO Kevin Rose:
Hey everyone,
This morning we faced the difficult task of reducing our team by about 10%. This was an emotional and rough morning for everyone involved. Laying off dedicated and hard working individuals is extremely difficult, but we tried our best to treat everyone with the utmost respect and support. I hope all of you will join me in the effort to assist all of those affected, be it as a reference or a referring source and most importantly, as a friend.
This is one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make recently but we strongly believe that it is the right decision for the long-term health of the company. In order to achieve our goals, we are putting more emphasis on the engineering and development efforts. In fact, we are still hiring for these teams as they are critical in getting us to where we need to be for the future, for our impending upcoming redesign and much beyond. The only way for us to truly succeed is to adapt and adjust as necessary.
I’m sure there will be many follow- up questions to this email. So, we’ll be holding an all hands today at 3pm where you can ask questions and share your comments.
Thanks,
Kevin
What’s this mean for Digg? I think it means the same thing for all the other companies that are having to make the same move. Many businesses, large and small, are laying off their employees due to economic times. I feel Digg will get through this with heads held high, and in the end, this will work out for the better. Good luck to all Digg employees that were laid off, best wishes in the future.
New Digg Content
As stated in other blog posts on tylersmiller.com and elsewhere on the Internet, previous CEO of Digg.com, Jay Adelson, has moved on to newer and better things. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, has taken the acting role of CEO for the time being. He had the following to say in a a recent episode of Diggnation:
TechCrunch reports:
He didn’t talk much about the new version of Digg, now massively behind schedule and getting more so every day. Please, Kevin, accept my invitation to sit down with us on video to talk about the future of Digg. It was just about a year ago that we talked about Digg’s serious plans to get back in the game. iPad apps are great, but there has to be more to the plan than that.
I cannot wait to see what the new Digg v4 looks and acts like, and I cannot wait to see if Rose will stay on as full-time CEO or who will be brought to the table to take over the news media company.
Digg CEO Steps Down
Credit: Time
Five year Digg CEO Jay Adelson steps down today. An official statement from Jay on Digg’s blog:
After five years, forty million users, and an amazing
ride, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of Digg. With the new Digg
getting ready to launch, Digg Ads doing well, our sales force growing,
our hiring ramping, and the company maturing well beyond its startup
phase, I feel that now is the right time.
He states that over the next twelve months he plans on doing some entrepreneurial work. He thinks with the recession, it is a great time for new companies to come forth, and I guess that by stepping down, Digg accomplishes that. In the meantime, Digg founder Kevin Rose will take over as interim CEO.
Kevin Rose posts on the Digg blog:
I want to be the first to thank Jay for the last five years of amazing
work. You’ve been a great friend and mentor, we wouldn’t be where we
are today if it wasn’t for you.While I’ll miss working with Jay day-to-day I am excited to be taking on
the role of Chairman and acting CEO, driving Digg forward on our
promise to enable social curation of the world’s content and the
conversation around it. We’ve been super busy on the product side
getting ready for the upcoming Digg redesign and delivering our mobile
apps for the iPhone and Android.Thank you very much for your on-going support of Digg, I’m truly
excited about the next five years, big things coming!
Good luck Jay in future projects and business opportunities. He has done good things for Digg, and Digg will move forward.
Digg Blog Post: Update from Jay