I'm actually sort of rooting for Digg here. Even though "new Digg" has almost nothing to do with "classic Digg," I still feel some nostalgia for the brand, and anybody who will commit to supporting RSS and building a good reader application is worth of some support.
I think codingthebeach is right to call them a dark horse, but I'm also excited to see what they can deliver.
That said, one thing that disappoints me about the Digg statement quoted in TFA, is that there's no mention of open standards and/or the Open Web. I'd like to see these guys say "Yes, we will absolutely support the relevant standards you'd expect to find in a reader: RSS, Atom, OPML, etc." If they do support any "social" features they should consider exposing social graph info using FOAF, and using SIOC would be a nice thing as well.
I think codingthebeach is right to call them a dark horse, but I'm also excited to see what they can deliver.
That said, one thing that disappoints me about the Digg statement quoted in TFA, is that there's no mention of open standards and/or the Open Web. I'd like to see these guys say "Yes, we will absolutely support the relevant standards you'd expect to find in a reader: RSS, Atom, OPML, etc." If they do support any "social" features they should consider exposing social graph info using FOAF, and using SIOC would be a nice thing as well.