Social news site Digg will launch a new images category this evening, as we reported last month. Digg founder Kevin Rose introduced the updates in a post on the Digg blog this afternoon.
The taxonomy changes are a much needed housekeeping update. Sub categories will now be consistent across all main categories. This is important because users can now easily click among the various categories and subcategories and see related news. Digg is also adding a new main category, “Lifestyles,” that will include topics like Autos, Food & Drink, and Travel.
The images update will allow much easier image bookmarking. When a user bookmarks a URL and selects an image from the bookmarked page, a thumbnail will be auto-created for inclusion in the Digg post (very similar to how Digg Video looks today).
Should be interesting… yet again, it’s not like I use Digg in my day-to-day life :p
Their new image crawler sounds almost identical to the one http://www.tagsum.com has had since launch.
Wait, people still use Digg?
WOULD ANYONE care to predict the URL for Digg images
such as: Pics Images Photos Pictures etc
Ugh, I hope they dump all the political GARBAGE into to their “lifestyles” section, so we don’t have to put up with all the Obama spam, Ron Paul fanaticism, and most importantly all the mobs of belligerent Bush-bashing junkies that have overtaken Digg nowadays. Every other story is an angry, “I’m suspicious of what Dick Cheney is up to!” story, while perplexingly there are NEVER any positive stories related him, our President, or for that matter this country I live in I happen to like.
For this reason, I have Digg blocked on my networks. But i still get all their garbage on the iphone Digg site.
Enough is enough. All that Bush-bashing spam has got to end. These people (are they adults?) have run amok. Digg is overrun.
Which category does 2girls1cup fit into?
@6 “Which category does 2girls1cup fit into?”
Educational.
@4 http://digg.com/images/
@5 Dude, go to: My profile > Settings > Customize Topics (digg.com/setting/topics) .. Please stop whining!
Yeah, the customize ability on digg is crucial if you want to limit what you see, and weed out some of the nonsense.
It’s great to see digg responding to the community with this, even if it did take so long…
Sadly you still end up with a few anti bush/governement/america topics even in the catagories that should have tech news
and conservitives and christians alike are shunned because of a percentage of atheists
I stopped using digg.com after the sued Dig Dug for trademark infringement.
Most of the Digg.com technology topic are MAC & Apple related news only.
well we’ll have to see how ‘big’ this really gets, they’ve postponed it for so long that I think people will find it a little annoyed at how overly dramatic the Digg team has been at releasing it.
I dont suppose digg is slowly becoming a portal
all they need is search and they are set
fuse with aftervote.com or something
Hmmm, what else can we post to Digg. Maybe they will be getting local resteraunts and movie theaters on there soon.
Not much else left to Digg
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