It's been interesting watching Digg evolve from crowdsourced community. I remember when @kevinrose announced he was leaving TechTV to work on Digg.
There are many different mechanisms for content curation (crowdsourced like reddit, editorial like TechCrunch, personalized like Facebook, or some hybrid of all these). Why have you chosen to move from what was once largely driven by crowdsourcing, toward a more editorially-driven approach, @mcandrew / @myoung / @borthwick?
Love it. It's great to have a channel that runs in the background since I don't have broadcast or cable. My only suggestion is that the overlay be smaller and positioned more out of the way.
@jchoi526@rrhoover Ooo, that looks good! I wonder what is going to win. Admittedly, we launched reddit.tv back in early 2009 and it's in need of some more love after the last 6yrs.
Thanks, @alexisohanian! While we're definitely trying for a very simple, clean, easy, etc., UI, the special sauce here, if special sauce there be, is the fact that the videos are editorial selected, and can be watched by channel -- topics or personally saved videos. I like picking a topic like Architecture, Cities, Food, Comics, and then staying in that flow for a bit. Details about the feature set & design thinking here: https://digg.com/2015/introducin...
@mcandrew I love it! I've long been impressed by how your editorial team has the time to find all that great content. Share your secret with the rest of us!
Thanks for the comments guys - yeah I've been liking both pluto.tv and reddit.tv, and there are some great YouTube playlists out there too. When you think of how many channels there are on TV, often filled with a lot of mediocre programming... there is also so much great digital-first content out on the Internet, we need more channels for that here. Let's keep pushing it out there.
i'll let @thistoby jump in and talk about it because he built digg.tv...
we've had a lot of people ask for a full screen digg video/tv mode so they can watch digg videos off their laptop/ipad/etc hooked up to their tv.
the other thing we added is browsing by channel/topic (our editors hand-tag 20-50 videos/day) or by saved videos.
plenty more to do, this is just a prototype...including adding air play to our ios app. we also have a prototype where the mobile site becomes the remote for another device hooked up to the tv.
would love to hear feedback if people get a chance to try it out!
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