See What News is Being Read on Digg Spy 2.0

Friday, Dec. 23 2005 | Author: AlexTan

Over the past year, Digg.com has been one of the fastest growing sites on the web. This summer, Digg 2.0 was released which helped to make the site more friendly to the non-geeky type by creating a nice clean web design, a friends list, and a report story feature. Their most recent update was one to Digg Spy, making it Digg Spy 2.0. It’s one of the most impressive Web 2.0 applications on the web right now. It allows you to monitor which stories are being dugg at the moment as well as reported, submitted, and commented on using these icons:

Comment:
New story:
Reported story:
Dugg story:

You can spy on all stories, queued stories (stories not on the homepage), and stories already on the homepage. The developers touched up every detail of the service. When a group of new stories arrive, they are delayed and only appear one by one, the stories at the end start fading away as they leave the list, and there is even a pause button, for when you see a story that interests you.

Category: News

2 Responses for "See What News is Being Read on Digg Spy 2.0"

sven

December 24th, 2005 at 1:26 am
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I don’t get why Digg is preferred over Slashdot. I read Slashdot for the comments, not the stories, since the stories tend to be old news, but Digg’s commenting system is horrible. Can somebody explain why they prefer Digg?
Alex Tan

December 24th, 2005 at 5:53 am
2

yes, there are a couple huge differences between digg and slashdot. Slashdot is a website where the stories are chosen by the editors, not the people. When the users are picking the stories many times you can find gems that don’t come up anywhere else because it picks stories up all over the place, from here and from every other blog digg users are reading.

You’re right about the comments though, you’ll be seeing that new comment system in the next couple of months. It just takes them a while to roll out new features because of the tremendous growth they’ve had lately.