On July 20, we announced that we were turning Digg back into a startup and rebuilding it from scratch in six weeks. After an intense month and a half, we managed to get the new Digg up and running on a fresh code base and infrastructure. We now have a solid foundation on which to build, and we expect to build fast. Yesterday, we previewed the new Digg applications for web, iPhone, and mobile web and today we’re happy to share Digg v1.

While today’s launch is a milestone for us, we’re more excited about what’s coming next. In the subsequent weeks and months we will:

• introduce network-based personalization features (like we do in News.me) to make Digg a more relevant and social experience
• experiment with new commenting features
• continue to iterate Digg for mobile web
• move the website forward with features like the Reading List, different views into the top stories on Digg, and more data to help users better understand why a particular story is trending
• launch an API so that members of the development community can build all the products that we haven’t even thought of yet

For anyone who may have questions about what’s going on and where we plan to head, we’ve put together an FAQ. We’d appreciate any feedback.

We’re proud of what we’ve built over the last month and a half, but today is just the beginning. Hello world, welcome to v1.