On December 5, 2011, StumbleUpon launched their biggest redesign ever, which streamlined a huge amount of their code, along with a number of drastic changes that completely changed the way StumbleUpon looks and operates. Although most of the changes on the site where received positively, two changes came under criticism. This included the removal of .

For all of Digg's efforts, it has really had no luck in trying to get back to its glory days, when it dominated the social aggregation space completely. Starting years ago with changes to limit the power their top users had, it has been one failed release after another, with version 4's release really marking .

The question of whether or not you should be engaged in social seeding is hardly a question at all these days. With the number of users on sites like StumbleUpon, Facebook, and Twitter, it is fast becoming one of the primary ways people get in front of large audiences today. Social Seeding is the process of showcasing quality .

Last month on September 20, 2011, StumbleUpon started sending out emails to their users informing them that on October 24th, 2011, Groups, Themes, and both photo and html blogs would be discontinued . Stating the change was being made in an effort to focus attention on making sure the content that you discover through their system is high quality, fast, and relevant to your interests. Like with any change, a small group of users were upset ,

A little over a month ago, Digg launched Newswire , a real-time, Top News section that attempted to get users back into curating the stories that go popular, versus just reading the popular stories showcased on the Digg front page. Today, a month and a half later, Digg CEO Matt Williams emailed a select group of invitees letting them know their accounts were included in a closed beta release of Newsrooms.