In true Digg Dialogg fashion, we're mixing things up once again with our next guest, Oscar-winning actor, Matt Damon . Michael Phillips, the film critic of The Chicago Tribune and co-host of "At the Movies", will be interviewing him at the Toronto International Film Festival where Damon is debuting his upcoming film, The Informant! Matt Damon is best known for writing and starring in the Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting .

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,

Hey Diggers, Many in the community have expressed interest in understanding how our new search works.  We're using Apache  SOLR / Lucene which helped us scale horizontally and solved many of our relevancy issues as well as enabling discovery of new content through facets.  Beyond site search, the rich set of features has allowed us build a platform that enables other features such as Related By Source and Related By Keywords.

Hey all, Just a quick note about our DUI JavaScript project : Two weeks ago I pushed v1.0.0 of DUI to Digg's Github , and nothing appears to have melted, so as of right now I'm officially declaring it Ready For Prime Time)tm(. 1.0.0 is a complete rewrite from the ground up. The API has changed significantly, and much cruft has been slain, so you should probably give the wiki a once-over before diving in. Also, I'll be speaking at jQuery Conference '09 in September.

Hey Diggers! We get a lot of questions about submitting content â€" what's good, how to promote submissions, and questions about commenting on Digg stories. I wanted to give you all some tips in these areas. Submissions Digg is your submissions! All of the content you see on the site has been submitted by users like you â€" we want to see what interests you or is important news from your perspective. When submitting a story,

Over the last 12-16 months Digg has seen some pretty big growth internally.  Our engineering team has tripled in size and we added both a QA and R&D team.  We went from releasing code once every 3-4 months to releasing code every day.  We encountered a number of roadblocks during the transition, some easy to overcome, others, not so easy.  We had to change some of our processes, adapt some new technology, and change a lot of peoples mindsets.

Hey All - It's time for our next Digg Townhall. We'll be hosting it live this Thursday , August 13th at 5pm PT/8pm ET. With last week's beta release of Digg Ads, along with changes to the DiggBar, the API and comment replies, we're sure you will have some great questions for us. Submit and Digg up questions you'd like Jay and I to answer below, and we'll address the most popular ones live on the Townhall. As always,

As announced earlier this summer, I'm excited to let you all know that we're rolling out an early beta version of Digg Ads. A recap of how it works: your Diggs, buries and clicks influence a quality score that determines how often the ad gets displayed, and ultimately how much the advertiser pays per click. The more you Digg an ad, the less the advertiser will have to pay; the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged,

Hey all, You know those amazingly witty comment replies you always post on Digg? Does it sometimes seem as if the original commenter didn't see them? Based on your feedback, we're releasing a small feature that will send an email to that original commenter - now you'll know for sure if they're ignoring you. We're hoping this new feature will foster even more communication and sharing within the Digg community. Now, once someone replies to your top-level comment,

Hey everyone, We're excited to announce our next Digg Dialogg guest, technology luminary Marissa Mayer from Google. Marissa joined Google as their first female engineer in 1999 and was among the first 20 employees. She is currently their Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, and has been responsible for leading & developing products including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth and iGoogle.

Hey everyone, I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we've stated in the past , the DiggBar is meant to streamline the Digg experience and provide our registered users with the opportunity to catch up on comments, related stories and additional source content. Our strategy with Digg short URLs is to facilitate sharing of Digg content,

Welcome to a new series from Digg on, well, using Digg! First installment is on getting the most of your Digg profile. There are plenty of Digg users who visit the site just to peruse the latest news, but taking the next step and digging into the social component of the site can greatly enrich a user's experience.

Here at Digg, like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of time making sure the site works in IE6, an eight-year-old browser superseded by two full releases. It consumes time that could be spent building the future of Digg. Here's what we're gonna do â€" and not do â€" about it. Should Digg block IE6? Currently, IE6 usage accounts for 10% of Digg visitors and 5% of page views on Digg.

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,