Hey everyone,

We’re excited to announce our next Digg Dialogg guest, technology luminary Marissa Mayer from Google. Marissa joined Google as their first female engineer in 1999 and was among the first 20 employees. She is currently their Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, and has been responsible for leading & developing products including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth and iGoogle. Fortune magazine recently named Marissa as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world.

From now until Friday, July24th at 12:00pm PDT, you can submit & Digg questions that you’d like to hear answered. Kevin will be conducting the interview, and with the recent buzz about the launch of the new Google Chrome OS, we think this should be a great discussion.

In case you’ve missed previous Digg Dialoggs, you have the opportunity to submit and Digg questions that we then pose to influential leaders and luminaries. Check out some of the past ones on the page, including Al Gore, Trent Reznor, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Branson.

Submit and vote on your favorite questions on the Digg Dialogg page from now until Friday at Noon PDT; we’ll be posting the full interview on Wednesday, July 29th at Noon PDT.

Thanks!
Jay

Hey everyone,

I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we’ve stated in the past, the DiggBar is meant to streamline the Digg experience and provide our registered users with the opportunity to catch up on comments, related stories and additional source content. Our strategy with Digg short URLs is to facilitate sharing of Digg content, not to be a conventional redirection service.

Last week, we made a change that began directing non-logged in traffic generated from Digg short URLs to Digg story pages where they can view the comments and related content. In response to feedback, all short URLs that were generated *before* today will now behave as they did prior to last week’s change by taking the user directly to the source content. Logged-in Digg users will continue to be directed to the source content with the DiggBar (if they have it turned on). Of course, if the content has never been submitted to Digg, viewers will continue to be sent directly to the source.

As always, keep the feedback coming as we continue to think about ways to enhance the user experience and evolve the product.

Thanks,
Jay