Digg is very popular & famous website here are 3 major changes which has happen in 2009.
1. Digg Bar
Digg announced this Digg bar feature on April 3rd 2009.
Why Digg Bar?
Digg directly destination site: No more mediators between the dig story page and Digg.
No Of Dugg: We can see the no of duggs from the dig bar.
Easily share stories: Create own shortened Digg URL & share it on Twitter, Facebook or via email. You just need to type digg.com/ before the URL of any page to create a short URL.
Views: We can see how many times our story has been viewed.
Check Comments: click ‘Comments’ button to expand the DiggBar to show the top comment, latest comment.
Related Stories: Clicking the ‘Related’ button expands the DiggBar to highlight similar stories.
See more stories from the same source: Clicking the ‘Source’ button to expands the DiggBar to show you more Digg stories from that same source site.
Discover random stories: Click the ‘Random’ button and you’ll be brought to an entirely new, unexpected story.
2. Digg Ads
Digg announced new Digg advertising feature on June 4th 2009. In this dig has given us control to which advertisement should display on digg. As many as the ads duggs, advertiser will have to pay less and the more ads gone buried advertiser have to pay more.
3. Digg Trends
Yesterday Digg announce new digg trends feature November 4th 2009. Digg wants to show most interesting stories to front page so they have started this as a new experiment.
How it works?
Trending stories will be identified by the high no of digs, comments, favorites & shares. Users can dig or bury the story according to popularity. If the story get enough diggs in 10 minutes time then it will stay on homepage, if not then users can’t see it on home page.
According to digg blog post the motive behind this is digg wants highly interesting stories to digg home page. It’s depend on people do they want story to home page or not.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:10 am
digg is a great tool for social media networking. I’m promoting travel deals in sri lanka.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I believe that you forget to mention that digg has also incorporated humor to its automated account deletion policy.
How can one be able to intent to artificially inflate or alter digg counts – with 7 diggs on a new user accounts!!!