Thanks to our friends over at Facebook, you can now import your dugg stories directly into your mini-feed (no application needed). Simply visit your profile, find your mini-feed, click on the ‘import’ link, and enter your Digg username. So why does this matter? Once you enable this feature the stories you digg will not only post to your mini-feed, but also syndicate to your friends through the main Facebook news feed. This helps further our mission of spreading the news you care about, to the people you care about. Di... lire la suite
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Thanks to our friends over at Facebook, you can now import your dugg stories directly into your mini-feed (no application needed). Simply visit your profile, find your mini-feed, click on the ‘import’ link, and enter your Digg username. So why does this matter? Once you enable this feature the stories you digg will not only post to your mini-feed, but also syndicate to your friends through the main Facebook news feed. This helps further our mission of spreading the news you care about, to the people you care about. Digg on, digg_url = 'http://blog.digg.com/?p=117'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_title = ''; digg_topic = "tech_news";
If you're the application developer and they're the platform owner, you have to know death can come at any moment: Create a popular, simple application, and the platform owner might just rip you off in their next release. It's happened to Max Levchin's Slide, maker of the popular Facebook widget Top Friends. With its latest profile redesign, Facebook now allows users to specify which friends they'd like to display to profile visitors. (See how Facebook's version works in the image above and you'll note that with the friends I've selected, my goal is to intimidate profile visitors with my powerful connections.) Before you feel too sorry for Slide, note that this is a feature MySpace has long offered. Slide, seeing that Facebook lacked it, promptly cooked up Top Friends, which filled the void. Top Friends is Slide's second most popular application with nearly 1.5 million daily active users. On the strength of those user numbers, Slide has raised $50 million in a recent financing round, and is opening an ad-sales office in New York. We asked for Slide's reaction. They were surprisingly chipper! "Yes, we view this feature as directly competitive to a relatively small part of our Top Friends functionality," Slide's Keith Rabois told us. "A developer on any platform must expect that their popular, but simple, features will be absorbed into platform over time."
The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. We’ve completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - making it easy for you to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content by seeing what your friends are digging. It’s also even easier to find and add friends on Digg.
Hey everyone - I wanted to give you a heads-up before the official announcement is made later today. We’ve signed on Microsoft as our new partner to sell and serve the ads on Digg. It’s a deal similar to the one Facebook signed with Microsoft last year. This move gives us an advertising partner with a larger organization and a more scalable technology platform to keep pace with Digg’s growth. Best of all, it lets the Digg team completely focus on new feature development. Federated Media, which has been an awesome partner for the last year and a half, will continue working with Digg focusing on integrated sponsorships and custom programs like the Arc project in labs. New (big) features coming soon...
- Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can discover popular Digg stories and stay up to date on what your friends are Digging, submitting and commenting. These notifications are fully customizable. Within your preferences you can track different categories and media types, and turn notifications on or off. - Digg Toolbar: Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar, which is collapsible to save space. Note that the toolbar respects user privacy by passing only hashed URLs to Digg to check if they’ve already been submitted. If you haven’t yet upgraded to Firefox 3, Digg developer Kurt Wilms has put together a Firefox 2 extension that’s full of features - check it out here. As always, we’re looking for your suggestions and feedback so please email them to us using our new contact form or comment below. Digg on - digg_url = 'http://blog.digg.com/?p=140'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_title = ''; digg_topic = "tech_news";
Digg has joined the DataPortability Project, a group of websites cooperating to help you securely use your data however you want. Why? Because you own your data. It's that simple. From the start, Digg has supported the idea that you own your own data. Want to sync your Digg friends network with another service? We want to help you do that. Want to use your Digg activity to get recommendations from another web site? We’re working on that, too. Digg already supports many of the open standards that let you use your data on sites other than Digg, including RSS, OPML, and hCard. We use RDF to embed the Creative Commons public domain dedication into each page. Just this week, we added MicroID, a Microformat that lets you prove to other services that you own your Digg user profile. We’ll be adding more open standards, such as OpenID, APML, OAuth, and XFN, in the coming months. Check out the DataPortability site for more information. We’ll continue to give your data back to you in new, open, standard ways, so you can build a rich on-line life in ways we would never think of. digg_url = 'http://blog.digg.com/?p=108'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_title = ''; digg_topic = "tech_news";
We are excited to be nominated for two Webby awards! Digg has been nominated in the Best Practices category, along with Facebook, Flickr, Yelp and the NYTimes.com. Diggnation is also up for a Webby in Film & Video. Help vote us up under the following categories: Website > Features > Best Practices > Digg Digg on, digg_url = 'http://blog.digg.com/?p=118'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_title = ''; digg_topic = "tech_news";
Katie Couric’s asking for questions from the Digg community that she can take along with her to the political conventions in Denver and St. Paul. She’ll be interviewing newsmakers and politicians over the next couple of weeks and will post the videos on YouTube and CBSNews.com. If your question makes it, Katie will read your Digg username when she asks the question. To ask a question or vote on questions, visit her story here. Digg on, digg_url = 'http://blog.digg.com/?p=141'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_title = ''; digg_topic = "tech_news";
Facebook has 100 million users and around 0.7 percent of them have joined a group called "I Hate The New Facebook" in order to protest a site redesign which will be made permanent sometime this month. The group, founded by a high schooler named Nick Wagner exhorts users to do something, do anything: "THE NEW FACEBOOK WILL PERMANENTLY BE THE ONLY FACEBOOK. THIS IS A PETITION TO STOP IT. PLZ JOIN AND INVITE. Will be changed in a COUPLE OF DAYS!!!" Wagner also uploaded a screen shot of the site's new redesign, annotating it: "The New Facebook is Retared [sic]." Facebook will ignore this petition, just like it largely ignored users when a far greater percentage of them revolted when the Facebook News Feed came out. Why? Because that feature soon proved to be a crucial and useful element of the site, proving again that while Mark Zuckerberg may not know how to talk to other humans, he knows how people want to use his product better than those people themselves. Even you, Nick Wagner of Laval Catholic High School.