New Digg Preview

Aha, nice to open Gmail this afternoon like getting a letter from a girlfriend . Which waiting finally arrived: an invitation to peek Digg new version. Indeed, many foreign blogs have received this invitation first and discussed its contents, but it is not enough if you just report without experiencing it yourself.

What Kevin Rose promises in this new Digg is a more social and personal scent, aka presenting news that is more relevant to our interests. Let's visit.

As soon as we pass the login page, we are immediately pointed at the option "Find Profiles to Follow."Oh,"follow," a mantra typical of today's social networks. From this point on, you can already imagine what Digg will be like.

This first step is a proposal tofollow users are mostly news owners like Engadget and Huffington Post, as well as famous names like Tony Hawk and of course Kevin Rose himself.

And the next step, again a familiar display, namely the option to find friends on other networks, namely Facebook, Twitter and Google.

After this step, the information needed by Digg is complete to create our new main page, which is filled with news submitted by the accounts we have entered. follow just now. The brief guide provided by Digg is as follows:

Digg hopes that the news that appears in the "My News" tab is news that is more relevant to our interests, so that users feel more at home on Digg. If you want to see other general news like the current Digg page, of course you can, by selecting the "Top News" tab. Yes, this way Digg will feel like Twitter whose timeline specifically contains links to news stories.

The next surefire step is to add a place to put news on the main page. If previously we had to go through various forms to enter news, now we just need to fill in the "Submit a link" column above the "My Latest News" column. And yes, this isn't exactly original either because it's very similar to what Facebook has.

The page in the news itself has not changed much, just a little more focus on the social aspect by providing the "Most Dugg Comments" column in the upper right corner to further excite users to interact through comments. And good news for those who hate the comment system on Digg, which seems to never work out, at least in this new version the comment navigation feels more responsive.

Due to its nature which is still in Alpha stage, it seems that there are still some things that are still polishing. For example, I can't retrieve contacts from Facebook, and the "Top News from people you follow" column in the top right corner of the main page still doesn't show numbers. digg correct. But the direction Digg wants to take can be felt.

To be honest, the changes that have occurred are far from being as revolutionary as when Digg first appeared. The "new" features and layouts that were introduced felt more like an attempt to keep up with the progress of other social networking sites that already had similar features. Maybe this is just Kevin Rose's first step after taking over the helm of Digg, a step that should have been taken at least a year ago by Jay Adelson, its former CEO. Kevin should immediately accelerate the pace of Digg's innovation faster, if he doesn't want to fall behind and only depend on his community, which is considered fanatical.

By the way, the Digg community, I rarely find users from Indonesia, it is proven that search results from Google and Twitter contacts do not produce satisfactory results. Whereas Digg's original mechanism has proven to be liked by our users, until several sites appear that use a similar mechanism (otherwise they can be called clones). Do you Digg? If not, why?