We've heard from you that performance is important and the Digg engineering team are busy working on making our site load faster. We've been moving static resources such as CSS, JavaScript and images to a CDN and testing several providers. We have been converting to high performance distributed databases for key features. We have also significantly improved our use of cache control directives and removed dependencies on 3rd party sites with performance issues. Today,

Hi all, We've made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community. These changes reduce the incentive to post spammy content )or link spam( to Digg, while still flowing 'search engine juice' freely to quality content. We've added rel="nofollow" to any external link that we're not sure we can vouch for. This includes all external links from comments,

Hi all, Today , we've introduced some exciting new additions to the Digg API, so that developers can create increasingly useful and interesting applications using Digg data. One of the most requested features has been for a search endpoint and we're excited to make it available in this release.

Hi all, As promised last week , we pushed a few key changes to the DiggBar today .  If you are logged-out, you will no longer see the DiggBar by default. If you miss the DiggBar, we encourage you to log-in, as we believe it creates a much more seamless Digging experience. You can continue to use Digg to create short URLs from anywhere on the web by simply typing http://digg.com before any URL or using our bookmarklet . If you are logged-in and have the DiggBar enabled,

Since we launched the DiggBar, we've received valuable feedback from the Digg community, publishers, SEO industry experts and Google. We believe that the DiggBar provides a more seamless way to discover and share content on Digg.  Since the launch a little more than a week ago,

Hi all, As most of you have noticed, we launched the DiggBar last week. This cool little feature streamlines your Digg experience by making it much easier to discover and share stories. You can now catch up on comments, related stories and additional source content while directly on the story )no more awkward toggling between Digg and the publisher site(. It's also easier to share stories with your friends on Facebook,