Posts Tagged ‘Digg’

Just days after the beta rollout of Digg Newswire, Digg put out the call for beta-testers for what it called its “next innovation.”

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Digg is reaching out to the wanna-be content curators among its user base with its beta rollout of Digg Newswire, which allows them to help shape which stories are featured on Digg.

Being the community manager of a museum doesn’t mean that you can’t use modern technology to promote your place of employment. Just ask Josh Lawrence of the Penn Museum.

Having second thoughts about that Digg? No worries: There’s an Undigg button now.

Digg is getting into the virtual newspaper business, announcing the launch of The Digg Chronicle, along with a revised Top News — Trending feature, and improved viewing of photos and videos.

Digg announced another series of tweaks to its Top News algorithm in its continuing attempt to refine the content that appears on users’ homepages.

Mashable bills itself as “The Social Media Guide,” so its launch Thursday of social layer Mashable Follow is a logical step. Here are some details of the public launch, and we’ll have more soon as Social Times gets an exclusive interview with Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable.

The subject of the next Digg Dialogg will be author, “evangelist,” and strategist, Guy Kawasaki, who is in the process of promoting Enchantment, book No. 10 for him, in which he discusses how to influence people without compromising ethics.

Paywalls were a popular April Fool’s Day subject, as Digg followed up the paywall that exclusively targeted employees of The New York Times and Winnipeg residents, “announced” earlier Friday by The Huffington Post Media Group president and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington, with its own take on the concept: the reverse paywall.

Digg finally officially addressed the rumors and speculation about the departure of founder and Diggnation host Kevin Rose (pictured) that surfaced late last week in a blog post by CEO Matt Williams, in which he emphasized that Rose’s role had not changed since he stepped back from day-to-day decisions last September. Highlights:

We’ve been hearing a lot about how Kevin Rose is launching something new. Everyone knows Kevin is an entrepreneur at heart, and he’s had many projects in the works over the past several years. We’re excited to see what he comes up with next. Kevin continues to be committed to Digg’s success; his role as founder, board member, and Diggnation host remains unchanged. When I took over as CEO last September, Kevin stepped back from the day-to-day decisions. I’m proud of the great team we’ve got at Digg, and they’re the ones to credit for the changes you’ve seen and the new direction we’re pursuing.

When I joined Digg, we had just released a product that was not ready for primetime. It really upset our users. Over the first few months, we dropped in the number of daily visitors and page views. But through this crisis, the lines of communication between Digg and our users opened to unprecedented levels. We received tens of thousands of comments and suggestions from the Digg community about how to restore the site they loved.

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