Neowin News Feed for: Digg

Digg reveals plans for its own Google Reader-style service

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:32:13 +0000

The revamped version of Digg has announced it plans to launch its own RSS reader service in order to help the many disenfranchised users of Google Reader, which will shut down July 1st. Read more...

Digg website relaunched by Betaworks

John Callaham — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:58:53 +0000

As promised, the new owners of Digg.com have relaunched the popular news aggregation website with a new ad-free design. Commenting features have yet to be introduced. Read more...

Digg previews new look, launching on Wednesday

John Callaham — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:21:24 +0000

The new owner of Digg has posted up a preview of its new look, which is still scheduled to launch on Wednesday, August 1st. It will take into account sharing stories on Facebook and more. Read more...

Facebook adds new recommendations bar for websites

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:17:57 +0000

Facebook has just added a new recommendations bar feature for external websites, allowing its users to find articles that their Facebook friends like and want to share with others. Read more...

New Digg redesign to launch August 1st

John Callaham — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:31:06 +0000

Digg's new owners Betaworks has announced plans to relaunch a new version of the news aggregation site on August 1st, just a few weeks after the company acquired Digg. Read more...

Digg gets acquired for a whopping $500,000 [Update]

Tyler Holman — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:31:43 +0000

Digg, the long lost darling of the internet, has reportedly been acquired by Betaworks, the company behind Bitly, for a mere $500,000, a far cry from the $200 million Google offered them back in 2008. Read more...

Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post?

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:02:49 +0000

Is the once-popular news aggregating site going to be bought out by a journalism heavyweight? According to one rumor, that's about to be the case. Read more...

Digg founder Kevin Rose reportedly hired by Google

John Callaham — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:05:25 +0000

A new report claims that Kevin Rose, the founder of the social news website Digg, has now been hired by Google. This follows news that the app his company built, Oink, is shutting down. Read more...

Kevin Rose leaves Digg, working on new startup

Oliver Haslam — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:52:04 +0000

Things haven't been well at Digg for a while now. They've gone through a couple new CEOs and one disastrous site re-design over the last 12 months and now, according to Mike Arrington, at least,... Read more...

Gizmodo redesign follows in the path of Digg, views down 36%

Brad Sams — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:11:04 +0000

There is something to be said about a design of your webpage, a great design will encourage traffic and help maintain loyal followers, but a poor design can have devastating results. Gizmodo recently unveiled a... Read more...

Google search results get a lot more social; Twitter, Flickr and more

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:40:03 +0000

Google has begun tweaking their social search results to include various social networking websites including: Twitter, Flickr, Reddit, Digg, Linkedin, YouTube and more. Prior to today, these social search results would only appear at the... Read more...

Digg laying off more employees, trying to find themselves

Christopher White — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:42:54 +0000

Digg, a popular news ranking website, is running into financial problems once again. Less than six months after laying off 10% of their workforce, they are now giving pink slips to another 37% of their... Read more...

Digg VP of Engineering fired after version 4 troubles

Alan Cone — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:48:58 +0000

With the launch of Digg 4, many users were not thrilled to say the least with the changes and bugs that arose after the upgrade. Digg users went as far as sabotaging the front page... Read more...

Digg users fight back, sabotage main page

Brad Sams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:55:17 +0000

It’s fairly common to hear that most people don’t like change. The common saying is “if it ain't broken, don’t fix it”, this mannerism tries explaining that if you have something that works, don’t drastically... Read more...

Digg 4.0 a week away

Alan Cone — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:33:13 +0000

The Digg you know is about to get updated to a fourth version of the popular social news website. Earlier this year, we have already seen a glimpse of what it will look like. Kevin... Read more...

Glimpse of Digg v4 alpha

Owen Williams — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:20:21 +0000

Digg has just started sending out emails inviting users to join the all new digg experience, labeled "Digg Alpha", it's the biggest change to the platform since it was launched in 2004. We knew the... Read more...

Facebook connect teams up with Digg

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:32:12 +0000

As of today, Facebook, one of the most popular web sites linking family and friends together, is now linking people together even more with Facebook connect and Digg joining up. The partnership allows friends... Read more...

Microsoft rolls out Windows Live Profile updates

Sean Bradford — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:27:25 +0000

As we reported last week, Microsoft has just finished rolling out its April updates to your Windows Live Profile. An overview of what has rolled out world-wide today: Tagged photos of you: You... Read more...

Kevin Rose: iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:39:10 +0000

With more rumors and news coming down the pipes it is hard to distinguish between fact and fiction with unofficial iPhone announcements. According to Kevin Rose, the iPhone 3.0 will be able to copy... Read more...

Google Walks Away from Digg

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:40:51 +0000

The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last... Read more...

Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg

Tom Warren — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:13:37 +0000

Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to... Read more...

Yahoo Launches Buzz

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:40:31 +0000

Yahoo has added a Digg 'kind of a' functionality to its site that will help highlight popular news, articles & blog posts. This will be based on Search Patterns & User Votes. The Yahoo Buzz... Read more...

Kotaku Pays Blogger for Pictures, Thanks to Neowin & Digg

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:12 +0000

After Neowin posted a story about Kotaku taking pictures from Prince17's blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories, and the story made it to Digg's front page, the gaming news... Read more...

How Google Could Solve the Digg Gaming Problem

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:44:07 +0000

Digg founder Kevin Rose said today that the site will be making changes to its ranking algorithms. The problem is that a small number of Digg users have too much influence over what makes it... Read more...

Digg 3.0 Launching Monday

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:14:15 +0000

The folks over at Digg have announced that the next version of their site will launch this coming monday. Digg is a personal favorite of mine and I'm sure a favorite of the majority of... Read more...