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Does Anyone use Digg’s New Features?

 

Digg introduced a whole bunch of “social” features a few weeks ago, but I’ve yet to use them. It’s not that these new features are bad, but I do think it’s the beginning of a new direction for Digg.

Some of the new features include “shouts,” sort of a twitter Pownce messaging system for sharing stories and videos. The profile page has also been redesigned to make it harder to Digg any story without making multiple clicks through Digg. These features are worthless to me. Digg is not my Facebook and Facebook isn’t my Digg. I use Digg to get the news and I use Facebook to communicate with friends, not vice versa. Digg has decided they want to be Facebook too. I wonder why…cough…Facebook worth a few billion?

Tell me if it’s just me, but does anyone use the new features? They seem to try to copy other services like Pownce and Facebook, when they could have just incorporated Pownce and Facebook features into Digg. The change in direction for Digg could be to appeal to a larger company (ie Microsoft, Yahoo, Google) who could in turn buy them (for a billion dollars). Unfortunately, I don’t think Digg is worth even a billion dollars.

I hope Digg doesn’t stray too far from where they began, but I guess we’ll know if they introduce Digg Apps or introduce a poking feature.