The somewhat blurry image above is, we believe, a new Digg homepage voting feature that will launch in the near future.
So what is it? It’s not the “Real Time Digg” relaunch that will integrate data from Twitter and other sources. Instead, we believe it is an experimental feature Digg will try out that encourages users to vote on whether a particular upcoming story should make it to the homepage or not.
Digg isn’t talking, so we don’t know much else. The 3/25 numbers on the left are a counter to show how much longer the story will remain on the home page (3 minutes, 25 seconds, based on us squinting at a blow up). It’s notable that users are asked to vote a story up or down without seeing comments or how others have voted.
The identity of the hand is also a mystery. More on this when it launches.
How hard did you squint? Looks to me like those numbers would be the total Diggs vs. burys.
Wow! I can’t believe Digg’s growth:
http://siteanal...e.com/digg.com/
Just FYI… tried to follow the link through RSS feed and feedburner says your link is broken. Just want you to know in case its part of a larger problem with your full feed.
iPhones are notorious for creating blurry pics. Doesn’t Kevin Rose have an iPhone?
Intentional leak?
Is this that necessary? It seems Digg has about 30 stories a day that cycle through and new ones come in. Does it really need minute by minute rotations?
It does from a user engagement standpoint. Relinquishing control to users has always been why Digg has been popular and why it has grown. The more the site can do to engage those who skim the front page, the more ads they see. Well, at least the ones who aren’t using Ad Block software, which is probably like 0.3%
I agree, looks like diggs vs buries, not something related to time.
I wouldn’t have thought it was time related, purely because it would be difficult to predict the timeframe for the proceeding stories that would peak and feature on the first page!!
Let’s see if this has more cowbell or not.
Yet another feature Digg steals from reddit about a year too late. Does Digg ever come up with anything on their own?
+1
(I’m a Reddit fan anyway)