Hey everyone,
It’s time again – we’re calling for questions for our next virtual Townhall which takes place here this Monday, May 12th at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT. It will be webcast live and made available for download afterwards.
We’ll share out the latest Digg news and discuss the topics you’d like to see covered. We’re always looking for your feedback to help improve Digg, so let us know what you’d like to discuss by posting, digging up, or burying the comments in this thread. We will also try to focus on new questions that we didn’t discuss in the last Townhall and omit any duplicate questions as we run down the list.
Looking forward to talking with you all on Monday!
- Kevin
PS: We know a lot of you are asking about the updates to comments - they’re coming soon!
Hey all,
The Data Sharing Summit in San Francisco was a gas. It was a real pleasure to work with like-minded people from organizations, large and small, all supporting DataPortability.
At the Summit I had the chance to show off Digg’s latest DataPortability enhancements. Although the enhancements are not visible on Digg.com, if you use Digg together with other social networks, these enhancements can make the Web more fun and useful.
Among the recent enhancements:
- We’ve added XFN to your user profile. XFN is an open standard that makes it easier for other social Web sites to recognize your Digg friends.
- We’ve improved support for hCard, another open data format for communicating Digg user names, nicknames, and photos, so that your favorite friend-following tools can more easily display your friends’ activity.
- We’ve added RDFa, making Digg part of the “semantic web” where Web pages become more sophisticated, beyond simply words and pictures.
These efforts support our philosophy that you own your data.
Thanks,
sbw
Hey all,
Happy Earth Day!
I’m thrilled to announce that Digg has been recognized as a key source of environmental news by The Daily Green and its “Heart of Green” award. The Environment topic on Digg has become one of the biggest sources for environmental content anywhere on the Web. So, in honor of Earth Day, we encourage each of you to Digg or submit something that you care about!
I also want to remind everyone that tonight we’re celebrating our first Digg meet-up. The meet-up will be held at Mighty in San Francisco and is the first of many gatherings that we’ll be throwing in the U.S. and abroad. Next stops include Chicago and New York. Check out our Town hall page for the latest dates and details. Hope to see you there.
Thanks and Digg on,
Jay
Hey Everyone,
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
Online Film & Video > Technology > Diggnation
http://pv.webbyawards.com/
Digg on,
Kevin
PS: Jay is a finalist in the 2008 TIME 100! You can vote here too …
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,
Kevin
Hey, we fixed the bugs happening over the last few days around digging, commenting, submitting and registration. You shouldn’t have any more of these issues on Digg (of course, if you do, please submit them to us). We thank you for your patience during this time while we tracked down this very elusive issue.
–Eli
Hey everyone,
We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get Digg back to 100% for ya.
Please bear with us…
Eli
Hey all,
Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning’s rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate.
Sorry to burst any drama theories, but they aren’t true. We remain focused on improving Digg and rolling out great features.
-Jay
Hi guys - Just a reminder to tune in at 9pm EST/6pm PST for our first Townhall webcast - we’ll be broadcasting live at digg.com/townhall
See you in a few! Daniel
Hey there. We’ve just made a few updates to our Digg tools and widgets.
- Updated Google gadget - we improved the Google gadget so you can customize stories and see what you friends are Digging from your Google homepage. Don’t worry, you can still find the original stripped down version.
- New MySpace widget - you can now add a Digg top 10 list to your MySpace profile.
- Improved Netvibes widget - view stories, see what your friends are Digging, and customize what you see in your widget.
Give us your feedback on the changes and new widgets, in the Digg comments, to help us improve them in the future. Also, check out the complete list of Digg tools to see what else we’ve baked up.
