Digg’s New Features Are Social Networking Baby Steps
After several periods of downtime, Digg has finally reappeared with a number of new features, which - as announced by Kevin Rose himself - should bring Digg closer to social networking sites such as MySpace.
In reality, though, the new features are nice enough, but they’re a far cry from bringing real social networking to Digg. In other words, this is no revolution, folks - it’s evolution.
First, the important news: users can now comment on other users’ profiles. This is one of those much sought features which Kevin&co had adamantly refused to add; now that it’s here, it doesn’t seem all that dangerous at all. Sure, there’ll be a little spam and perhaps some users will nag others to Digg their stories, but you can simply set the comments to ‘Friends only’ and you’ll have all the peace and quiet you need.
As far as other good stuff goes, you can now add up to 25 photos to your profile, as well as write a short biography. Your activity and favorites, as well as your friends’ activity and their favorites are now much better organized, and friends’ activity can be filtered by several criteria. There’s a lot of small details that make the whole experience of wading through your profile more enjoyable: for example, in the list of friends’ activity little icons are showing you what other friends have dugg a particular story.
All in all, new Digg features are more than welcome; however, a new MySpace or Facebook it is not. The social networking features - photos, shouts, friends’ activity - are the mere basics for any social network, and it would be far fetched to say that Digg is moving to this direction. The new features and fixes should be viewed as they are - general improvements to Digg’s usability - and anyone who thinks that Digg will somehow change for the worse because of them is wrong.
Finally, as Kev says on the official Digg blog, this is just phase 1 for the new, social Digg. These new features can be expected in the near future:
* Digg Images: A dedicated images section (with thumbnails). Still on track to launch in late October.
* Revamped Comments: No more ajax loads, new clean and lightweight design (similar to the old comment system).
* Digg Alerts: Alerts will give you the ability to create customized email alerts - when a story becomes popular, summaries of popular stories on specific topics, and when your friends recommend stories.
* Story Suggest: Dozens of servers crunch the math to provide you with real-time recommendations (stories and friends) based on what you’ve dugg in the past.
Check out some more screenshots of the new features below.
If you’re the private type, you can easily stop anyone from sending you shouts.
Several criteria are available for filtering friends’ activity
The new user profile holds all the important info in one place
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