Hey everyone,

I’m sure you’ll all agree that 2008 was a crazy year, so I thought I would take a moment to recap some Digg highlights. Our traffic has nearly doubled to more than 35 Million visitors per month, and we now receive more than 20,000 story submissions per day. We worked hard to continue to make improvements to the site, many of which were directly based on feedback from you.
Some highlights include:

- Site enhancements and new features, like the improved Comments system and the Recommendation Engine
- Digg Dialogg series, where we posed your questions to notable leaders such as Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore
- New ways to discover Digg content; including the new mobile version of Digg, Twitter feeds, Google gadget, and Firefox toolbar
- Quarterly Townhalls and in-person Meetups; we held events in Austin, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Denver, St. Paul and London
- New ways to track election news and interact with political leaders; including Digg the Candidates, our visit to the conventions, Digg questions to Obama and McCain from Katie Couric, and Election night coverage with Current TV and Twitter

In addition, several big events happened behind the scenes that allow us to continue to make Digg even better in 2009. Over 80% of the Digg code base has been rewritten and modularized to pave the way for agile development and we secured a $29 million Series C round of funding. This paves the way for more great features in the new year.

In addition to all that, the Digg crew hit the road and met many of you at our Meetups and events. We’ve been posting photos and videos along the way, but took the opportunity to compile it all in one place as the year comes to a close:

Thanks for making 2008 so great.
Happy New Year,

Kevin