Interview With Digg’s Kevin Rose: The State of The Union

Even though Kevin Rose was pretty tight-lipped with respect to product, I think it will be interesting to see Digg move in a different direction later this year, with him hinting at an emphasis on real-time search. Whether or not this is the future though, despite everyone swooning over Twitter, remains to be seen. It makes me wonder whether the supposed importance of real-time search will be a self-fulfilling prophecy (with these large companies jumping on the bandwagon, and pushing it to mainstream importance) or if it will reach that state in its own right.

On another note, I don't think Arrington's reference to Hacker News as a competitor to Digg is particularly accurate, as they clearly have separate goals. HN is trying to maintain what Digg wasn't able to - namely a civil, intelligent community. Oddly enough, he preceded that topic by first commenting that Digg has done a good job with trolling, and asking how they'll combat it as they continue to grow. Seriously? Has he checked out the comments on Digg lately?