Digg debuts new design, fights phony posts

Cory Bergman December 19th, 2006

Just months after launching a new look, Digg has debuted another new design that displays “all news” instead of technology as the default on the home page. I imagine this is because miscategorized stories of all shapes where ending up in the technology category because everyone wanted to get their stories on the home page. Digg is also working hard to counter the relatively new phenomenon of top Digg submitters being paid by marketers to post and Digg promotional stories on the site. “I receive two or three offers (from marketers) a week to promote some product or service,” said one 19-year-old Digger. He said he normally turns them down, but he agreed to plug JetNumbers, a site that provides virtual phone numbers. Digg yanked his profile until he apologized and promised never to do it again (yeah, right.)