Calling all Diggers,

If you’re keen to work at Digg, here are 8 solid reasons to send us your resume right away:

8. You’ll Digg the DigDug
When Kurt isn’t solving complex infrastructure problems, he’s working on his DigDug high score. Think you can beat it? Think again. And while you’re thinking, how about sending in that resume?

7. Reduce your CO₂ footprint
Digg is bicycle friendly. So why not help save the planet while getting a workout? Digg is easily accessible from most of San Francisco or from the peninsula via Caltrain. What’s more, you can park your bike by your desk. So hop on your fixie, cruiser, or pink folding commuter with a basket and handlebar tassles and pedal on over to Digg.

6. You can snuggle up to the Digg pets
The Digg office has dogs aplenty and the occasional visit by “Pistol”, Digg’s very own guinea pig. Mmmmm, yummy little guinea pig. (Please don’t let on to Jim that we know Pistol is really a ferret.)

5. We’re located in San Francisco’s best neighborhood
Digg is located in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, boasting one of the best micro-climates in the city and lots of great places to eat and drink. Our local coffee shop, Farley’s, claims that it’s San Francisco’s best independent coffee house. Perhaps, but just don’t ask for a low fat latte – you won’t be welcomed back. :)

4. The fridge is always well-stocked
The Digg fridge is kept well-stocked at all times. And don’t forget Digg’s weekly “Wine Wednesdays.”

3. You’ll grow to love your MacBook Pro
Ah, the simple pleasure of an MacBook Pro and a 30″ monitor. Now if I could only figure out where my right mouse button has gone…

2. Who can’t use 20 PTO days?
At Digg you’ll enjoy 20 PTO days, 11 paid company holidays, a great health plan and a wellness (gym) reimbursement.

1. We Rock
The best reason to come and work at Digg: we rock. Or we try to. Don’t take my word for it – watch the video.

Digg is hiring in Development, R&D, QA, Product, and other areas. Check out the jobs page for details.

Thanks,
John

Hey All —

Today is a big day for Digg. We’re announcing a major expansion effort – the largest we’ve undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, we’re accelerating many of the programs that we’ve been working on over the past several months, including investments in infrastructure, new feature development, international expansion and hiring all the people we need to get there.

You’ve given us some great feedback on how we can make Digg better. As you’ve heard us say many times before, we feel that we’ve only implemented a fraction of the vision for what we believe Digg can achieve. The new features that will be a part of this program will incorporate much of your feedback, including personalizing the Digg experience, enhancing the recommendation system across other areas of the site, creating deeper category and topic content views and more ways to discover and organize content.

Of Digg’s over 30 million unique monthly users, almost half are from outside of the U.S., so this expansion will also include initiatives aimed at making Digg more relevant to local tastes, including local languages. We will begin laying the groundwork for that immediately with the beginning of our international growth strategy in early 2009.

Other initiatives will focus on expanding our community outreach programs and developing more sophisticated tools and interfaces for publishers.

To help support all of this, we will be significantly growing the size of the Digg team in the next year and moving to larger San Francisco offices that give us the room we need to do it. We’re hiring, so check out our jobs page. Fueling the acceleration of all of these programs is our revenue success to date, along with a new $28.7 million round in funding, led by Highland Capital Partners.

Thanks again to all of you for your support in making Digg the vibrant community that it is today.

Digg on,
Jay

Hey Everyone –

A while back Katie Couric asked for some questions from the Digg community as she was heading out to the political conventions. You all suggested some great ones, and tonight she poses some Digg questions to both John McCain and Barack Obama. Tune in tonight to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric to see if your question gets asked!

Digg on,
Kevin

Update: In case you missed it, you can watch the video here.

Hey All,

A few folks have been discussing the use of scripts on Digg recently, so I wanted to jump into the conversations that happened this weekend. Scripts/bots place additional load on Digg servers (slowing things down for everyone), so using them is a Terms of Use violation that will result in losing access to your Digg account. We are currently looking deeper into recent script activity.

Digg monitors for script/bot activity globally across all our site pages. In addition to that, our development team has completed some improvements that will be rolled out this week. These changes will be more transparent, warning and preventing the users from using these scripts/bots. This will only affect a very small group of people, and the overwhelming majority of the Digg community won’t notice these changes. As always, all content on Digg is subjected to the Digg promotion algorithm, which requires a unique diverse pool of Diggers before promoting content to the homepage.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us at support at Digg with questions or feedback. We’re continuously researching and investigating these topics, so don’t be shy and let us know what you think.

Have a good one,
Jen