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Google has hired Digg founder Kevin Rose, AllThingsD reports.  The news follows the announcement that Rose’s mobile development lab, Milk, Inc.,  has shut down its food recommendation app, Oink.

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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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Matt Williams, who left Amazon.com to claim the CEO chair at Digg at the end of August, introduced himself in a post on the Digg Blog, in which he revealed that the bury button will soon be unburied.

Williams succeeded former Digg CEO Jay Adelson, and Kevin Rose assumed the title of chief architect.

From Williams’ post:

It’s certainly been an eventful first month on the job. As many of you know, the launch of Digg v4 didn’t go smoothly, and we’re deeply sorry that we disappointed our Digg community in the process. Thank you for your patience and your extremely candid feedback — we hear you loud and clear.

Recently, we’ve been reinstating a number of the features that many of you loved about Digg. In the past two weeks, we’ve brought back the “Upcoming” section, started restoring user profiles from the previous version of Digg, and made small but important tweaks to the site, including better pagination. In the next few weeks, we’ll bring back the bury button, restore all user profiles (including comment and submission history), add filters and navigation for videos and images, provide a tool for users to report comment violations, and update the Top News algorithm and overall site design based upon your feedback. The result will hopefully be a much better Web site experience.

I’d also like to share some insight beyond what you may have seen or heard in the press. Despite the changes to our platform at the end of August, there were still 23 million unique visitors worldwide using Digg last month. Digg today is a much faster Web site, operating on an open-source platform. And with the launch of My News, you now have more personalized control on Digg by filtering news with the help of friends and others you choose to follow.

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The Diggnation team stopped by MSNBC’s Digital Cafe to tape an episode of their popular web show, and Rachel Maddow served as guest bartender for hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. She served up some “breakfast cocktails” while the hosts talked Xbox and more:

As Pres. Obama marks his 100th day in office, Diggnation is celebrating its 200th episode on the Web. The Revision3 program, hosted by Digg founder Kevin Rose along with Alex Albrecht is going on four years.

“Diggnation practically invented Internet television,” said Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3. Rose and Albrecht “were the first true Internet video stars, and along with their dedicated production team, they continue to create an award winning program each week.”

Episode 200, available here, features Rose and Albrecht running through the top stories on digg.com that have been creating global tech buzz.

Revision3, the Web video producer, and iWidgets, the social syndication company, are teaming up to bring Revision’s 3 hit web show Diggnation directly to fans. As part of the deal Revision3 will syndicate Diggnation clips to Facebook for the first time.

The Diggnation widget can be found on the Diggnation Facebook Fan Page.

Diggnation is a weekly tech/Web culture show based on the top Digg social bookmarking news stories, featuring hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Episodes air every Wednesday at 6pmET. The show is seen by more than 250,000 viewers per week.

New media is being embraced by the new host of NBC’s Late Night. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht who host Revision 3′s Diggnation will be among Jimmy Fallon‘s guests tonight.

Every week on Diggnation, Rose, who founded Digg, and Albrecht run through the most buzzworthy stories from the Web.

Fallon was the first ever guest on Diggnation back in January.

B&C’s Alex Weprin caught up with Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to get his reaction to the announcement that Twentieth Television is launching a TV show based on Yahoo! Buzz, the search engine’s social news site.

Revision3 already produces a similar Web show called Diggnation based around the community story selection site Digg.

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” Louderback tells Weprin. “I wish them a lot of success. Hopefully, that will expand the audience for us, with people asking, ‘Who else does this and who does it better?’”

Diggnation is co-hosted by Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Weprin reports that Twentieth Television isn’t commenting yet on the format of Yahoo! Buzz, “though reports have former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis as a possible host.”

Louderback is completely content with his show airing on the Web. “I don’t think you can just take something online and just slap it on television. Television would destroy [Diggnation] in many ways. If we were on a network, there are a lot of f-bombs that would have to be dropped.” And then there’s the beer drinking.

> More: Check out the latest episode of Diggnation as a Mac fanboy meets Bill Gates.