Digg

Digg is a rapidly growing website that emphasizes technology news, and combines social bookmarking, blogging, syndication, with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ (such as Slashdot).

Previous Versions of Digg

The original design featured no ads and was designed by Dan Rise, but as its popularity grew Google AdSense were added to generate revenue. The site was updated in July of 2005, to "version 2.0" which added new features such as a friends list, and a new interface design created by Daniel Burka, of the web design company silverorange, who is also known for redesigning the Mozilla Foundation website.http://www.mozilla.org/ After the redesign, some users complained about the lack of the simplistic, minimalist layout used in the original version of Digg. The developers of Digg have since added an option for logged in users to change the layout via the profile tab.

Related Topics:
AdSense - Mozilla Foundation - Digg

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