Hey all -
Just wanted to give you a status update on the Digg images project. As we’ve been cranking on this project we’re also improving the taxonomy of the site. Soon you’ll be able to submit your images, videos, or news stories to a universal taxonomy. This will allow you to see all media types in a given topic, or see just one media type at a time (i.e. just viewing images under sports).
With all these changes comes a lot of new code and infrastructure to support the massive number of anticipated submissions, thumbnails (including crawling and resizing), API requests, and of course fault tolerance for everything. Stay tuned, but we’re planning to go live a little closer to the end of the year.
Everyone here at Digg is focused on turning this live as soon as physically possible, and we’re working weekends to make this happen.
Thanks for understanding,
Kevin
Since we launched Digg Labs a while back, many of you have been asking for our Digg Labs applications as screensavers. We’re happy to say they’re now available for your viewing pleasure.
I’ve had some development versions running on my computer for the past few weeks and I’m sometimes genuinely reluctant to wake my computer from sleep — first I get mesmerized by how good it looks and then I get sucked into all of the great content and patterns that emerge.
You can now pimp out your desktop and catch more of the good stuff submitted to Digg every day. Check out screensavers from your favorite Digg Labs applications, which you can download from the individual project pages:
Massive props to Stamen for building these out. Note, the screensavers are available for Mac and Windows users and include Adobe Flash 9 if you don’t have it installed. On the Mac you’ll need at least OSX 10.4 and on Windows you need either Windows XP or Vista. See our FAQ for more details.
As always, you stay classy Internet
Daniel
Digg Company Blog
