Resurrecting digg? Well okay then.
There are plans to relaunch digg with original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Considering how antagonistic those two were to each other at the height of the digg vs. Reddit era, that they are now working together is worth watching.
The often controversial news aggregator and social site originally launched way back in 2004 and was one of the internet’s first great growth success stories.
The site’s main function was to let users discover, share and recommend web content. Members of the community could submit a webpage for general consideration. Other members could vote that page up (“digg”) or down (“bury”). Although voting took place on digg.com, many websites added “digg” buttons to their pages, allowing users to vote as they browsed the web. The end product was a series of wide-ranging, constantly updated lists of popular and trending content from around the Internet, aggregated by a social network.
There’s some speculation that the relaunch (at least in an early access form) may be arriving as soon as this weekend based on 3825 diggs being used in digg’s online social media.
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