Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News (http://gigaom.com/2010/05/28/digg-wants-to-be-the-twitter-of-news/) By Liz Gannes (http://gigaom.com/author/lizg/) - gigaom Digg founder Kevin Rose is close to his first major launch since taking over as CEO (http://gigaom.com/2010/04/05/kevin-rose-becomes-ceo-in-shake-up-at-digg/) and instituting layoffs (http://about.digg.com/blog/we-just-sent-following-email-staff). He published a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rc-Ou6814) today on his personal YouTube account laying out the site’s upcoming version 4 release, due “very soon†(found via TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/exclusive-video-and-screenshots-of-digg-vers.... The new Digg â€" which has been in the works for at least a year now â€" will extend the site’s current social features (which are pretty minimal (http://gigaom.com/2010/04/06/as-kevin-rose-restarts-digg-he-faces-an-unsocial... to allow for both friending and following other users and publishers. So if you friend a user, you see what they Digg and comment on; if you follow a publisher, you see everything they publish. The result is a personalized news page that seems like a combination of Google Reader, the Facebook news feed and Twitter. These features aren’t surprising; they’d been discussed publicly by previous CEO Jay Adelson (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20000411-52.html) and others at the company (http://gigaom.com/2010/02/26/how-digg-found-a-way-to-make-money/).>
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