Digg Is Introducing Social Networking Features

Sep 19, 2007

This is another example of what a dominating force social networking is becoming on the Internet. There is tremendous desire to communicate and share content, whether self-generated or recommended. The post titled Digg Getting More Social at Read/Write Web says:

social news site Digg will launch a slew of new social networking features that will put the site in closer competition with services like Facebook and MySpace.

The new social networking features will enable its close-knit community to interact with other members and share links in a more comprehensive manner. Another quote that explains the new features:

“Instead of submitting stories for review by the larger Digg community, users will be able to send — ’shout’ in Digg terms — story links along with messages to particular Digg friends. Friends, or small groups of friends, also will be able to chat or discuss stories on their personal pages with posts to a message board, a feature akin to the ‘wall’ on Facebook.”

Up till now I have been too lazy to look at Digg properly or consider it as a content promotion service but as I blog more and more I think I should pay more attention to social media websites. Have you had any successful experience with Digg?

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4 Responses to “Digg Is Introducing Social Networking Features”

How To Use Digg To Promote Your Website
September 20th, 2007 at 3:06 am
[...] Digg is now including social media features too along with an already existing ability to submit and rate links it is important to leverage its [...]
Simonne
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:08 am
Lately, I’m not trying anymore to catch the attention of the Digg community. Last year, when I started blogging, I used to submit my posts there and to watch closely what’s happening to them. That last until I read more about that community, and until I’ve got a website banned (although it was not spam at all), I wrote them and I got a very unsatisfactory answer. Then I found out that there are the so called “top diggers” and I completely lost my interest. I don’t want to become a “top digger”, I only wanted some attention to my work.
Amrit
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:50 am
Simonne: Actually you shouldn’t submit your own links. But you are right about the uselessness of investing all that time just to get occasional surges in traffic (OK, some will call it the grapes are sour); I believe in building traffic gradually, and on my way if some day I get some attention from the social bookmarking websites, well and good.
Simonne
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Yes, Amrit, maybe this is one point that makes me not being so fond of Digg: who cares whose links one submits, as long as they are interesting for the community? I also believe in gradually built traffic. However, when I tried (and managed) to game Netscape, and got on the front page two days in a row, I liked very much to see how the traffic was growing. That happened last year, and I’m still banned to this day But it was worth doing that, because I was not so much of a believer in the social networking power (this is why I forced it) - from that day on, I changed my perspective.