Is Digg testing out their new image section?
As I was perusing Digg today I went into my user profile page and was surprised to see something. One of my friends had dugg a link that led to a flickr page. It was not the digging of the flickr image that was interesting but the fact that Digg showed me a thumbnail of the image.
Digg added thumbnails to their video section a while back and these use a smaller thumbnail in the profile area. What was unusual about the flickr thumbnail is that it only appears on the user profile page.
If you do a search for flickr content you will not see a thumbnail on the Digg link nor will you see it on the Digg story page.
Could this be Digg's way of testing out their long awaited image section? I sure hope so because I am eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the Digg image section. There are a lot of great images being submitted to Digg and they need a good home.
So far I have only seen this work when a flickr image page is linked to. There may be other image sites that also show thumbnail previews.
I noticed the same thing, I believe Kevin said Pictures would launch sometime in the October timeframe so obviously it’s should be soon, this could very well be the first step.
Another great step in making Digg THE place for 12 year olds!
I’m not sure whether this is getting better or getting worse…
Images already have a good home, it’s called STUMBLEUPON. At least on StumbleUpon, the comments aren’t filled with pornless rage and hate for everything and everyone.