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Digg announces new Trends service and DiggTV

Digg just sent out an email to it’s members announcing a couple new features. The first, Digg Trends, is something I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on, mainly because I’m a trends junkie. It’s described as:

Digg Trends is a new feature on Digg that highlights active upcoming stories that haven’t yet hit the homepage. The concept is simple: stories that have received a lot of activity in a short period of time (Diggs, comments, etc.) will now appear in a special section at the top of the homepage for ten minutes. You can then Digg or bury the story, and depending on your vote recorded within those ten minutes, the story will either become popular or not. Here’s what it looks like in action:

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You can follow Digg Trends on Twitter by following @digg_trends.

Digg founder Kevin Rose and his crew has been doing a video show for quite some time and in addition to the new trends service, they’ve also set up a new area of the site called DiggTV that you can access at tv.digg.com

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The new Digg TV channel will include:

Diggnation: Hosted by Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, Diggnation is a beer-fueled tech/web culture show dedicated to the discussion of the top stories on Digg, whether it’s the latest flame wars or thoughts on time travel.

The Digg Reel: Host Andrew Bancroft features the funniest, coolest, & most controversial Digg videos of the week.

Digg Dialogg: You ask, we listen. Submit questions to fascinating luminaries like Matt Damon, Trent Reznor, Sir Richard Branson and we ask the top ones during the video interview.

By Paul on 13/11/2009