Hi all, After much anticipation, we are finally releasing several major updates to our dupe detection technology and content submission process that should go a long way in eliminating duplicate submissions. To better understand the nature of the problem, we analyzed the types of duplicate stories being submitted. Most common are the same stories from the same site, but with different URLs.

Hey everyone - Last fall, we took your questions to the Presidential Candidates, and we're excited to announce that we're doing it again, this time in an exclusive interview with President Obama. We're partnering with ABC News for a special edition of Primetime entitled "Prescription for America", where Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson will be sitting down with the President to discuss his views on health care reform.

Hey everyone, This upcoming Digg Dialogg is sure to be one of the more entertaining and unpredictable ones we've ever done. We'll be interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Austrian model Bruno next week. We'll post the interview on the Digg Dialogg page Tuesday , June 30th at 10:00am PDT. Bruno is the über-famous Austrian model and host of fashion & celebrity show Funkyzeit. He's releasing his full-length film, Bruno , worldwide on July 10th.

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.

Hey everyone, Some exciting news here at Digg today . I'm thrilled to welcome Chas Edwards to Digg as our Chief Revenue Officer. Chas will oversee all current and future revenue generation activity for the company. Chas is known in the industry and his experience is perfect for us at this stage of our growth. As you may know, we've been very focused on building an internal sales organization at Digg as part of our monetization strategy. Over the past several months,

Hey everyone â€" We're excited to be heading back to New York City on June 4th for our next Meetup. We had a huge crowd last year, so this time around we chose a larger venue - Webster Hall in Manhattan â€" to make sure you all could attend. We'll again be featuring a Live Diggnation plus the sounds of Fort Knox Five , Ursula 1000 , and a few other surprises & special guests to round out a full evening. If you've not yet been to one of our Meetups ,

Today, we're announcing our plans to roll out a new advertising platform â€" Digg Ads . Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system. The platform will launch as a pilot in a few months,

We've just made a few small but significant changes to Digg. For the past few years, all of the content on Digg has been licensed as public domain. Comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site are explicitly put into the public domain so that others can do great things with them. This is good for the internet and good for society. As of today,

Hey all â€" We've been working on adding new ways for you to share the content you find on Digg â€" Facebook Connect launched earlier this month, and in April we added the ability to share stories via Facebook and Twitter directly from the DiggBar. Starting today you'll notice a few more changes to sharing options on Digg. We've listened to your feedback, crunched some user data, and decided to remove shouts. As some of you know,

Hey everyone - Following the excitement of our last Digg Dialogg with Richard Branson, including the infamous fist fight challenge with Stephen Colbert, we are looking forward to mixing it up a bit. Join us for our next Digg Dialogg where we ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the top questions from the Digg Community. Ask and vote on questions for Gov. Schwarzenegger' Arnold Schwarzenegger is a world-famous athlete and actor, and most recently, California's 38th Governor.

Hey everyone, The Digg team is heading to Seattle next Thursday, May 21st for our first Meetup in the Pacific Northwest. We'll be convening at Neumos in Capitol Hill to meet fellow Diggers, raise a pint, and check out the band Wallpaper . We'll also be sharing a a few Digg updates and giving away some Digg iPhone & laptop skins . If you've never been to a Meetup, check out some crazy footage from the last one in Austin at SXSW )South by Southwest(: Doors open at 7:30pm,

Hey Everyone, It's that time again. We're hosting our next virtual Digg Townhall on Tuesday , May 19th at 5pm PT/8pm ET. It's been an incredibly busy quarter full of activity here at Digg. We're looking forward to taking your questions and sharing Digg updates. So please submit and Digg up the questions that you'd like us to address. Kevin and I will respond to the most popular ones live via webcast on the Townhall page.

Hey everyone, Today we're rolling out the long-awaited release of Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows Facebook's 200+ million members to login and start Digging and commenting right away. If you're already a Digg member, linking your account makes it easy to cross-post, sharing your Digg activities on your Facebook home page. After connecting, you will now have access to Digg friend features, such as our green story icons that appear once a friend has dugg a story.

Our friends at Infectious have manufactured some sweet Digg-themed vinyl skins for all kinds of laptops and iPhones . There are two designs for each â€" a simple one with a single logo and a skin with scattered logos all over the place. Infectious makes really great, high-quality products and these skins are no exception. They're tough enough to protect your laptop or phone and they're easy to apply. But they're easy to remove too,

Hey everyone, I'm excited to announce our next Digg Dialogg with Virgin Group founder and record-breaking adventurer, Sir Richard Branson . We wanted to pay homage to his various aviation pursuits, so for this next installment, Huffington Post Co-Founder Arianna Huffington will be conducting the interview on Virgin America's inaugural flight from San Francisco to Orange County. We'll post the interview on the Digg Dialogg page this Monday, May 4th at 10:00am PDT.

Hola, Although we usually wait until a feature is fully baked before showing off the technology behind it, we're just too excited about this new project to keep it to ourselves. Digg's Front End Architecture team has been experimenting a lot with performance improvements, and we're just about done with one that we think will change the way you get data from high-traffic websites. First though,

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,

You may have noticed the " People who Dugg this also Dugg " feature on the Digg story list pages as an interesting new way to sift through all the available items on Digg and discover new content. We recently rolled out a few subtle changes to the placement of this feature, along with Related by Keyword. Many users wanted to see the comments directly under the story summary, so we are exploring different locations of these features based on what's more relevant to you.

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,

An apology is due â€" until today, Digg's search has been pretty terrible. I'm really excited to announce that our search no longer sucks. In fact, I think it's awfully good but you should try it out and judge for yourself. Our primary focus is to give you the best possible stories at the top of the results right away. The first thing you'll notice is an improved user interface but don't let that fool you, there are significant improvements under the hood.