Kevin Rose has announced the release of the new Digg Firefox 3 extension. Video demo above.
The key features: where ever you are, Digg will follow you:
Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can discover popular Digg stories and stay up to date on what your friends are Digging, submitting and commenting. […]

New FriendFeed mates with Digg and has a rabid child service Social Median has launched with a pitch straight at dyslexic, attention starved 2.0 types and people who want more meat than Digg provides.
OK, so the introduction was a little harsh, but so is the mix of everything Social Median is trying to be. […]

Third time unlucky this week for the alleged Google/ Digg acquisition talks. Lucky for Kevin Rose, there’s another buyer in the wings. If…sorry, when this deal falls over (need to get a clearer script), how long until someone reports Google is in negotiations with Digg again?
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Still no word on the rumors that Google is close to acquiring Digg for $200 million. What could possibly be holding the deal up?
Original image credit: Wikimedia Commons. Acquisition story on CNet.
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With news that Google is alleged once again to be close to acquiring Digg, some may suggest that the future of the popular social voting destination is assured. But looking at Google’s list of acquisitions, it is anything but. Here’s four ways Google could destroy Digg as we currently know it.
Stagnation
While Digg is a popular […]

A new version of Propeller went live earlier today, complete with radical overhaul that included dropping Digg style voting and a look that screams news magazine.
I hate it, and many others will as well, however I know I’m not the target market. The market is the broader, mainstream non-tech market that Yahoo Buzz attracts, a […]

Ballhype and Showhype, two Digg clones focusing on sport and pop culture respectively have sold for $3 million, according to Louis Gray and others.
My initial reaction when visiting the sites was “OMG, Pligg installs” but a quick search of Google quickly changed my tune to “OMG, custom built Digg clones built on Django.” Still, $3 […]

Digg is shifting more toward news content and less toward entertainment, according to new analysis released today.
The number crunching, by research firm Hitwise, found 20.67 percent of Digg’s outbound traffic went to a news/media site in June — barely less than the 21.34 percent that went to an entertainment site.
Here’s why it’s significant: […]

Now that Google has entered the Alexa space with Google Trends for Websites, the general public has some access to hidden traffic data from Google’s vaults. The service get its numbers from a combination of sources including search traffic, anonymous Google Analytics figures and other third party marketing data.
The emphasis is mine, but the Google […]

Kevin Rose’s Digg may be the golden child of the social sharing space, but it’s FriendFeed that is getting all the attention lately. I’ve always enjoyed Digg (and Kevin Rose is a good bloke as well which helps) but today I find FriendFeed superior for what it delivers to me, even if the traffic it […]