Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced!
Many of you have been asking about the Digg API and I’m happy to announce that it is now publicly available at services.digg.com along with a Flash application toolkit. This will be a great tool for Digg users and partners to openly access all Digg data dating back to 2004. To kick off the API release, [...]
A Diggable Digg River
Hey all, You might have noticed that we’ve updated Digg River, our streamlined version of Digg for web-capable mobile devices. It’s still not a complete mobile Digg, but now you can sign in and Digg the stories you find interesting. To check it out, visit diggriver.com on your mobile device. (Sorry, some low-end phones can’t handle [...]
Help Spread The Word, And Get Your Name On The Digg Homepage!
While we are hard at work on several massive Digg features, we were able to crank out a little new friend invite feature. How it works - Invite your friends to signup for a new Digg account at: digg.com / invitefrom / [yourusername]
1M User Party Update!
Following up on my last post about reaching the millionth registered user milestone, here are the details for the party that we’re planning as a thank-you for all of your contributions to Digg. We’ll be holding the party at Mezzanine in San Francisco on Thursday, April 19th, starting at 7 p.m. Since this [...]
Care to join us?
Up to this point, we’ve been posting individual job listings on Craigslist and other job boards. Well, we’re growing like a weed, so we’ve now added a jobs page to the Digg site. From here on in, this will be the central place to find out what positions are available on our team. Got the [...]
1 Miiiiiillion Users
It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a huge online community. Now, your contributions in submitting, digging, and commenting on content have propelled Digg to [...]
On Buries and Blocking
Hi All - Just wanted to post real quick about some stories I’ve seen in the blogosphere regarding an alleged ‘bury brigade’ on Digg and on the Digg site blocking process. For the same reason that we don’t expose all of our back-end methodologies for the Digg promotional algorithm, we also don’t expose the details of how [...]
New Digg Topics
After months and months of being harassed by Steve Ballmer and Barack Obama, the Digg staff finally decided, for the sake of our sanity, to cave to their demands. Actually, after watching tons of stories submitted about these subjects and receiving countless requests from you, starting today we’ve added two new topics. Under World & Business [...]
Wanted: Repair person for Dig Dug tabletop machine.
We acquired this timeless piece on ebay - sadly it worked for a few days and then just stopped working. The screen went blank, but we can still hear Pooka and friends through the speaker so it?s not completely dead. If I can’t get it working again, the developers have threatened to stop coding. The repair [...]
New ?Smart? Digg Buttons
We’re glad to announce an update to our Digg This button. You used to need different tools to provide links on your site to submit content to Digg versus buttons to Digg content you’ve already submitted. Our new Digg This button has finally been given a brain to do both! It’s smart enough to detect whether [...]