digg 3.0 launching june 26th
Posted on | June 23, 2006 | 1 Comment
social tech-news-site digg is about to launch its version 3.0 on monday, june 26th. the most groundshaking change might be the new categorization of topics into six categories (technology, entertainment, gaming, science, world & business and online video). as Mike Arrington points out, digg has surpassed former leader slashdot in terms of pageviews long ago, and is now going to challenge the New York Times. a lengthy interview with digg-founders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson available at TalkCrunch right now is promising to unveil some of the other new features of digg 3.0.
update: valleywag.com reports from the digg 3.0 launch-party and features a picture of a new mindmap-feature, not unsimilar to the one found in feeds2…cool!
update: digg 3.0 was launched today… though the mindmap pictured above seems not to have made it into this release 
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July 14th, 2006 @ 1:08 pm
[...] Janko Röttgers – author of the P2PBlog and the book ‘Mix burn & R.I.P’ – did a short email-interview with Kevin Rose, founder & CEO of social-news-site Digg. I’m glad to hear that the data-visualization-features I missed in the digg 3.0 relaunch a month ago are obviously scheduled to be launched by the end of july. Janko links two videos explaining the concepts of digg Incoming and digg Swarm, which Kevin outlines like this: “digg Incoming: Think of incoming as a combination of an excel clustered column bar graph and the game of tetris. Every time a user diggs a story another block falls from the sky, causing the graph to grow taller. This will be one of the first tools that enables users to see real-time activities from several hundred newly submitted stories at once. The larger the graph, the more users are digging the story. [...]