Digg Hints Its Replacement For Google Reader Will Include Social Media Content

RougeFemme writes "To capitalize on Google Reader's shutdown, Digg is building an RSS reader from scratch. But this Reader replacement will go beyond RSS to include social media content, like Facebook, Tumblr, Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc. From their blog post: 'Google did a lot of things right with its Reader, but based on what we’re hearing from users, there is room for meaningful improvement. We want to build a product that’s clean and flexible, that bends easily and intuitively to the needs of different users. We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring."

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Wait - wasn't that the place...

[jnmontario]

Wasn't Digg that site I used to visit as often as ./ before they whored themselves to advertisers to allow funded content to overtly make it to the front page instead of ACTUAL user submitted content? BTW: yes - I'm aware lots of users were themselves industry shills, but at least it had the pretense of being a community-driven website.

lol, digg

[game kid]

The last time digg did one of its boneheaded overhauls (back in August 2012?) it became a pinterest lookalike that IIRC required (not merely allowed, as bad as that already is) a facebook account just to log in. I quickly did the export old account data thinger they supplied that time; I've yet to make any use of that data, but at least I still have it cooped(sp?) up somewhere.

Anyway, the real story here is that anyone would still care about, much less report on, digg. It's long dead and longer buried by its own hand. Lay a Rose (nyuk nyuk, get it? Because Kevin) on the grave if you like; it ain't moving but by the mightiest of necromancy.