Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means
Like everyone else , Digg has a serious case of Twitter envy. And they’re doing something about it. In an interview last month Digg founder Kevin Rose told me that the company was working on an overhaul of the Digg service, calling it a “completely new direction” and referring to the new Digg search as an indication of what direction they’re going in. He didn’t (and still won’t) give many details, except to say that Digg needs to to “a living and breathing site” and “a little bit more real-time in nature” (”real-time” is secret code for Twitter, and has been used so much lately that people are mocking it). Earlier in the interview Rose talked about wanting more user participation on the site, with top stories getting 50,000 or more votes (most top stories get a few thousand now). The new product is designed to encourage more user engagement. We’ve taken the relevant clips from the original interview below. Whatever it is, it’s coming sometime soon. Clip Transcript…
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