VCs shovel another $28.7 million into Digg

Digg Inc., an Internet startup that specializes in rating news stories, is making a little news of its own with a $28.7 million round of financing. The investment announced Wednesday should squelch recurring rumors of a sale to Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.

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Users Rebel at User-Recommendation Site

Operators of a Web site that ranks and displays items based on recommendations from its users relented this week in allowing people to post information and links on breaking the locks on high-definition DVDs.

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User-Recommended Digg.com Expands

Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology.

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Digg has poached Keval Desai away from Google as their new Vice President of Product, we've confirmed from the company. Desai's last day at Google is today.

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This afternoon Digg CEO Jay Adelson was interviewed on Fox Business News, where he spoke about the future of Digg and the ways it could potentially cooperate with strugging news organizations.

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Digg continues to grow, claiming 20 million visitors per month and an increasing amount of mainstream attention. But as traffic to Digg has grown, the incentive to "game" the site to get stories to the home page has also increased.

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Last week we posted a hazy screenshot of a new Digg voting feature called Digg Trends. It launches today.

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So what is it? It's not the "Real Time Digg" relaunch that will integrate data from Twitter and other sources.

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Digg founder Kevin Rose launched a side project called WeFollow, a Twitter directory, earlier this year. Twitter users can go to the site and add themselves under a specific category.

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How Google rebooted the media and democracy itself

What is more important: Your vote in last election or your activity on the Internet? I'm not so sure any more but the the latter is beyond dispute growing in importance. And here's why.

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Digg has just announced that it's going to begin rolling out Digg Ads, the site's innovative new advertising product that invites users to vote on which ads they like best, over the next week.

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You know those idiotic commenters on Digg? Sure you do. You know, "FIRST", "LOLZ", "URGAY", etc. Yeah, those guys. Well Digg took a step today that could possibly make them at least 10,000 times more annoying: Email alerts.

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News aggregator site and Digg-competitor Mixx had a rough June. Traffic to the site took a 68 percent nosedive in the U.S. from May to June, according to comScore. Compete shows a similar trend.

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Those changes to the DiggBar that we noted on Sunday are, apparently, permanent.

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Since originally launching last April, Digg's URL shortening service DiggBar has been marred with controversy, though things have mostly died down over the last few months.

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IE6 has long been a thorn in the sides of many web developers, offering limited support for many established web standards that often force devs to implement ugly, ugly hacks.

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Since its inception, one of the biggest problems with Digg has been that users often submit the same content over and over again. This makes it harder for cool content to become popular because some users digg one submitted story, while some digg another.

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There's long been a military-wide ban on access to a number of specific social media sites, and while that still stands, some soldiers will now be able to access other social media sites that had inadvertently gotten caught in the same ban despite not being on the official banned …

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Digg unveiled a new ad platform on Wednesday that will give companies an ad medium that looks and feels like user-submitted stories that have been promoted to Digg's front page.

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We've been working on adding new ways for you to share the content you find on Digg – Facebook Connect launched earlier this month, and in April we added the ability to share stories via Facebook and Twitter directly from the DiggBar.

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Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson announced during Digg's Townhall that the shout feature on Digg will be replaced by a more real-time one later this week. The change will make it easier for users to share stories on Twitter and Facebook.

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How quickly they grow. Remember when Twitter was just a little pipsqueek, with less than 10 million monthly unique visitors to its site worldwide? That was back in February, 2009. Fast-forward to April, and Twitter's U.S. visitors alone reached 17 million.

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Like everyone else, Digg has a serious case of Twitter envy. And they're doing something about it.

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i m just surfer

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Digg is putting an end to its exclusive ad selling relationship with Microsoft after two years, which is one year earlier than the deal was originally set to expire.

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The DiggBar, Digg's browser-based toolbar for digging and sharing content, has seen a tidal wave of controversy since its release last week.

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There are various reasons I only foresee the eventual outcome of this situation to be the removal of the DiggBar entirely. First I want to list five (out of many) fundamental problems inherent to the current DiggBar:

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John Gruber of the blog Daring Fireball doesn't like what Digg's doing with its DiggBar, and has come up with a relatively simple way to block it on his own site.

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