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Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News [GigaOM]

The new Digg — which has been in the works for at least a year now —
will extend the site’s current social features (which are pretty
minimal) to allow for both friending and following other users and
publishers. Kevin Rose describing Digg’s new value proposition:
“Because we’re only links and news we cut out all the miscellaneous
status updates like you see on other sites.”

http://gigaom.com/2010/05/28/digg-wants-to-be-the-twitter-of-news/