A New Kid's Perspective on Digg's Engineering Culture
blog.digg.com — As one of the most recent additions to Digg’s engineering team, I thought I would share with you some of what it’s like to work at a place that’s doing some really innovative and exciting things on the Web. When I joined Digg a little over six months ago, I had no idea what to expect. Coming from an organization of 15,000+ employees at Yahoo... (Submitted by Mihai12345) More...
We Digg TOMS: Announcing the TOMS Digg partnership
blog.digg.com — As we head into the holiday season, we’re excited to announce that we’re joining forces with one of the most charitable retail companies around – TOMS Shoes – to launch a custom Digg shoe. The shoes are available starting today exclusively on the TOMS Shoes website, but since this is a limited edition, get your pair before they’re sold out! (Submitted by aubs) More...
Tune in to DiggTV
blog.digg.com — Today we’re excited to announce the premiere of DiggTV, a one-stop destination for all Digg shows. You can catch every episode of your favorite shows, including Diggnation and The Digg Reel, right on this new site. You can also subscribe to the shows in iTunes or other channels, so the shows are delivered right to you as soon as they are live. (Submitted by aubs) More...
Experimenting with Digg Trends
blog.digg.com — Because there's so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we've been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we're launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they're trending to Digg's homepage. (Submitted by justjeninsf) More...
Testing Digg-fed Content Ads
blog.digg.com — In the spirit of testing different ways to make ads on Digg better (similar to what we’re doing with Digg Ads), we’re launching some new ads today called Digg Content Ads and we’d love your feedback. These ads are in limited release so only a small percentage of folks on Digg will currently see them. (Submitted by justjeninsf) More...
Speeding Things Up
blog.digg.com — We’ve heard from you that performance is important and the Digg engineering team are busy working on making our site load faster. Today, we’re also making some changes to reduce page payloads and minimize HTTP requests with subtle UI changes. (Submitted by justjeninsf) More...
Jeffrey Kalmikoff: Digg's New Director of Design and UX
blog.digg.com — At the end of this month Jeffrey Kalmikoff is taking the design helm at Digg as our new director of design and user experience. Jeffrey will be leading all aspects of user experience and interface design at Digg. He’s a stellar designer and leader, who until recently was chief creative officer at Threadless and SkinnyCorp. (Submitted by dburka) More...
Looking to the future with Cassandra
blog.digg.com — Digg moves into non-relational data storage. (Submitted by shupp) More...
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