digg adds podcasts and video

Posted on | December 18, 2006 | No Comments

social-news site digg.com announced a major upgrade earlier today. besides some changes in user-interface and frontpage-composition, biggest news is the integration of online-video and podcasts in the top-level navigation. podcasts can be dugg either by series or episode, playback for both audio- & video works straight from inside digg. popular footage from social-video sites like YouTube or Metacafe pops up in a slick lightbox. unlike competitor Netscape (who’s been doing video since quite a time), digg is not hosting videos on its own servers, but is rather embedding the original material. while this might be an advantage over Netscape (after all users can stick to their favorite video-service and won’t have to upload their clips to yet another site), it seems awkward that users can’t submit videos themselves – currently digg seems to fetch only the most popular ones automatically. still, I think chances are good for digg to become the single point of entry for online-video… given the plethora of video-sites launched this year, a meta-aggregator is definitely needed.

 

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