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About Digg
Digg is a technology news website, started by a friend of G4TV star, Kevin Rose. Digg expands on an idea started by Del.icio.us, where users submit urls parsed into various categories for others to see and click. If a user feels a link contains interesting content, that user will 'digg' - or vote for that link. Upon receiving sufficient 'diggs', the url will appear on the category front page and upon receiving enough diggs after that will be placed on the digg front page.
Digg was the first website to publicly link to the stolen files as a result of the hacking of Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick device on February 19, 2005.
Problems
The site suffers from several problems and shortcomings, however. Among these are the fact that while the system inherently would work best with a large amount of users constantly submitting stories and digging others, the small user base it already has is experiencing problems such as large amounts of duplicate stories and misplaced articles. Also, the site is plagued by stories that were deliberately taken off of Slashdot and other technology news sites.