What is Digg?54 Comments
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Digg needs a Google Category, +1 atomic16.
- KevinLiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I don't like it... it really clutters up the page and makes it difficult to scan.
- atomic16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Thanks for that, but the story is about the home page. Also I am having some trouble seeing the feature now, it seems it loads sometimes, but doesn't others. For the doubters I was able to take a screen shot ( http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture23fk.png ). If you click on one of the arrows, the story drops down. Here is it with the story ( http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture16vv.png ). There is also a time stamp now, useful since I have found it does not update frequently and this can tell you when it last did.
- pixogen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I wish the "+" images to expand feed data were smaller. The extra linespacing is a bit distracting.
- Xavier1012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is also in the google reader homepage add-on which I personally think is more useful and takes up less space:
http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scr1b386811mw.jpg - Djerrid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Alternate title: Google Homepage now Double-Plus Good!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is there a classic home option in Yahoo? Nope. Google takes the cake.
- everbright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2on the top of the "add stuff" page, next to the search bar, there is the "add by url" link that you can click to add feed directly
- Bewildebeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Archeologist:
http://search.yahoo.com/ - everbright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can have only up to 6 tabs ...... It took me a while to figure that out :(
- atomic16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, I went away and then this story got like 350 diggs.
Cool my first front page story, thanks. - TechPedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Looks horrible. They need to allow user customization of colors/fonts...the dropdown with the black box and very little padding looks horrible. What might be better would be using lightbox on it, so it would pop the preview up and give it focus.
- Casedot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's not very googleish though
- emosewami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was thinking the same thing. All the icons take focus off of the titles making them harder to quickly skim through. Why not just go with a text '+'? Make it a lighter shade of blue than the links and it would look great.
- Confuzed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any one else having a problem with digg plug in? i keep getting a "Please wait, loading .."
- NccWarp9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is what was missing, excellent addition to Google home functionality.
No more opening pages just to find that the story has good title but crappy content.
ajchavar noticed, and I agree, that Digg is not well implemented .. no preview - jersey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn, you beat me to it. But it's still awesome.
- redlantern64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree w/ TechPedia. Nice idea, but not the best implementation possible.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It always loads correctly for me, but some feeds don't allow themselves to be displayed like that
- nub4life, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I agree 100%. Live.com is much better.
- constana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That post about making Google black was trash. It totally overstated how much energy we would save. Google generates $8 billion annually and changing to black would save them about $500k.
That change not worth implementing. They'd affect the user experience of hundreds of millions of users to save $500k. There are better ways to reduce energy usage. Environmentalists often pursue a energy reduction at all cost philosophy that is detrimental to their own objectives.
Google could lose millions trying to save this lousy $500k if they piss of users. A better idea would be for Google to use their massive profits to become carbon neutral - which is what they are doing. - tpink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone else having problems with this using IE7? Whenever I click to expand anything, I just get a Javascript Object expected error.
- hifiDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just want to know where the "add a tab" feature went. I want more pages for my RSS feeds and I can't make them!
- howdesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What allows for the + signs next to the story links (and drop down story summaries)? Is this javascript? Ajax? Something to do with RSS? Something else? Any info? THANKS!
I noticed Freep.com has the same thing and they've done it a bit more eloquently. - Murakami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The live.com implementation of this is much better imo. Live has a mouseover link which popups at new frame (not a popup window) without rearrange the content on the page.
- AshTR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just go to Netvibes.com and be done with it. It owns every homepage I've seen and it loads up pretty damn fast.
They also have Digg support. - noliberalbull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was wondering what the change was... apparently they need to work on it a bit more for Safari, because I thought something was just screwed up
(the expansion bullets appear as '?' missing link/photo icons in Safari. I had no idea I was supposed to click on that til I saw this digg headline, it all makes sense now). - kaplanfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@atomic16 thanks for actually linking to the ig page instead of some lame blog, I dugg you not only for that, but also for providing images as I am unable to see the feature either.
-Kap - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have the Digg feed on my page. It seems that the titles and the brief summaries are getting mixed around in the list.
- jtrag, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I love iGoogle. It's a great idea and it's going to get much better as it matures.
- steveoco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't like the new feature, all those plus icons seem to clutter the page and I think going to my news sites gives them the traffic they deserve. I just middle click all the heading and go strait to my fav blogs to read the new news. Google home page is justa reference to see if they have updated for me.
- tpink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just took a look where the Javascript was bombing out and it ended up being in the To-Do List gadget ( http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/todo.xml&synd=ig ). I removed it, it worked, then added it back and everything works fine now. So if you're having this problem and use the To-Do List, do the following:
1. Refresh the page so there are no Javascript errors
2. Close the To-Do List gadget
3. Test the expand/collapse for RSS feeds (should work)
4. Click Undo at the top of the page and the To-Do List will reappear and the RSS feeds should still work - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2netvibes is much better in service anyway and yourminis is great too
- killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1live.com is disgusting
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can put google reader on your customized page, its been available for months
- Backpacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any way to add custom stuff to the homepage, i.e. things that aren't listed in their "add stuff" pages? I have a bunch of Atom and RSS feeds that I read with the Firefox Sage extension, and can't figure out how I'd add those to the homepage...any help...or am I just a 100% doofus?
- oneiroi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Netvibes has always looked better.
Google is just trying to catch up with other similar rss sites. - wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can force it with a custom CSS sheet, correct?
Though an option to switch to a dark theme would be great. - formfactor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its nice and all to be able to read RSS feed articles and all, but couldn't they add the ability to expand messages in your gmail box from the google personalised page?
I cant access gmail.com because of my worplaces content filtering. A feature like that would be very useful. - tophtucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually agree--while Google's page may be better in some ways, I prefer Live.com's little pop-ups. And they have images too. Quite convenient.
- wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mine's up and running and works well for sites that have a brief summary in their RSS feed. Some pages with full articles only are breaking the column, but this is a great start. Once it can show the newest comic from several of my feeds (I have a tab dedicated to comics, for what its worth) I'll be even more impressed.
- tophtucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd say "all of the above"...
- Backpacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks! I knew it was gonna be completely obvious.......just couldn't get it.
- benexor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it just won´t load new blogger.com blogs when you press +
- trunk8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm using IE7 and all mine have worked so far, haven't gotten any errors when expanding.
- kevmonster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree, I can't believe,after all this time, there's still no native alternate color schemes or settings.
- Rage67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They should change it to black like that past article
said... save energy and it looks better - ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why the hell are you using IE7 for anything???
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ahh, you beat me to posting this.
this is really awesome, i've been wishing they would do this for a while. this was a sorely needed update. my only qualm as that photos still don't integrate well into their design. that and i wish the digg module would have the handy preview as well.
edit: they did work some photo integration in, ie if you have a feed for a comic like xkcd, or dinosaur comics the comic pops up! (doesnt work for all rss, but still nice).
this is sweet! - devteam, on 06/24/2008, -1/+0hi, we have a light-weight personal portal page http://www.HomePageForMe.com The tool is simple and efficient for your daily browsing. It groups your favorite links in colorful boxes, has RSS news feeds, a free personal web site, multiple web search and map search tool, and bookmark toolbar for easy bookmarking. Take a look at it and let us know if you like it or not. Thanks.
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