Digg Releases Beta Version of Recommendations
Digg has been rolling out the changes over the last week or two and today a few lucky users, including myself, got access to the beta recommendation feature.
TechCruch mentioned the new feature last week when they got a hold of some leaked screens shots and videos. Muhammad Saleem also did a good post about the feature on ReadWriteWeb that covers much of the new features.
What is the recommendation feature?
“The Recommendation Engine looks at your Digging activity and compares it to all the other users on the site to find the most compatible users. We call these users ‘Diggers like you’. The Recommendation Engine then highlights Upcoming stories that you may find interesting based on these ‘Diggers like you’. This means that as you Digg content that you like, the Recommendation Engine continuously updates to bring you more new and relevant stories.”
I won’t go through all the new features as you can reference the above links and get the majority of the information, but there were a few additional points not mentioned that I will talk about.
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Digg Cleans Up Navigation, Candidates, and Adds Olympics
Digg has made some new changes today that are worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site.
I first noticed changes were coming when the navigation went gray, or tanish, for me, which is the new color for the upcoming section.
Then I noticed the Popular and Upcoming tabs had moved below the category links in what appears to be an attempt to increase the visibility of the “upcoming” pages.
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Reddit Goes Open Source
Last night I wrote an article about Reddit’s big announcement party and the Tagging feature I discovered a little early. It turns out the feature “was the result of a prank, but we suspect tags will be one of the first features developed…”
Tonight is the announcement party where Reddit was supposed to deliver a surprise announcement. However, for some reason they have decided to release their surprise early through a video featuring the Reddit alien and a huge message.
REDDIT GOES OPEN SOURCE!
Reddit’s Secret Announcement Just Got Tagged
Some of you might have heard that Reddit has planned a small event tomorrow, June 18, in order to make some significant announcements about some new changes to Reddit.com. You can also see the announcement from time to time if you visit the site, which is down from time to time for the new changes.
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