• dw221 Plain and simple….this sucks! Bring back the old Digg.
• nicklo06 FUCK YOU NEW DIGG GIVE ME DIGG CLASSIC!
• tophomeloans What’s the point in digging if you don’t get credit for it. Screw this…..
• originalmadmatt this is crap.. digg has gone to the dogs..
• outlawsundown New Digg is like New Coke horrible and unwanted. Bring back Classic Digg!
• fuzybuny What the fuck is up with the color scheme?
  What the fuck is up with the layout?
  Where the fuck is the upcoming section?
  How the fuck do I see peoples comments?
  Fuck this fucking fuck shit and fuck Diggs shitty ass Web Designer they should have hired a fucking Usability specialist now this website is pure fuckery.

Almost by default, users don’t like redesigns – and the more invested users are in a site, the less they like change. It’ll be interesting to see what the effect of this redesign will have over the next week or so. Early reactions are almost unanimously negative (and Diggers tend to be quite vocal in their disapproval)

Works just as advertised, but here are a few observations:

• the new phone icon is inconspicuously placed in the “Chat” box – if Google didn’t point it out so clearly when the feature is activated, you could almost miss it
• Gmail doesn’t auto-recognize phone-numbers and so you can’t just click on a number in an email and initiate a call
• if your account doesn’t have a Google Voice account associated with it, everything will work, but people obviously can’t call you back on this number (instead they will hear a message that says: “Hi, the person you are trying to call used Gmail from his or her computer.”)

To use the bookmarklet, you simply drag and drop a link to your bookmarks bar and you are ready to go. You can find the official Twitter bookmarklet here.

Twitter, of course, has every interest in getting users to share more content on its service. Most of Twitter’s more mainstream audience will probably puzzled by the idea of a bookmarklet, but the team does a good job at explaining how to use the new tool.

Until now, these features were only available to Windows and Mac users. For these platforms, Google introduced voice and video chat in November 2008.

To get started, Ubuntu users can download the required plugin here.

Nothing too exciting here, but good to see that Google continues to improve the extensions library.

Developers Now Pay $5 to be Included in the Gallery

Earlier today, Google also announced a change to its developer program for Chrome extensions, themes and the company’s upcoming web apps store. Developers will now have to pay a one-time fee of $5 if they want to see their apps in Google’s official store. According to Google, this new fee is part of the company’s plan “to create better safeguards against fraudulent extensions in the gallery and limit the activity of malicious developer accounts.”

Thanks to its enormous number of users, Facebook is able to bring location-sharing back to its basics, while others have to use gimmicks to acquire new users. There are no badges, coupons, mayor, passports, pub crawls or any of those other features that Foursquare, Gowalla and other location-sharing services offer.

In a way, this almost makes Facebook Places refreshingly different from its competitors. After all, shouldn’t location-sharing services be about sharing your location with your friends and not about coupons and other gimmicks? If people want to share their location – and on Facebook, location-sharing is really just another type of status update for the time being – they want to do so with their “real” friends. That’s exactly what Facebook offers them, without the fuss of having to sign up for another service, import a list of friends just to find out that only 2 of their Facebook friends are actually on Foursquare, and then use yet another app to check in. Given that barely any Foursquare locations actually offer coupons, Facebook Places users really don’t miss out on anything by abandoning these other services.

Without doubt, it will take Facebook Places about two days before it has more users than Gowalla and Foursquare combined. In the long run, Facebook’s competitors will be best off to just use Places as the platform for their own services. Foursquare doesn’t seem to be too enamored with this idea. Gowalla, however, looks to be more than happy to to embrace its Facebook overlords. After all, Gowalla was already getting left behind in its competition with Foursquare, so the company really doesn’t have much to lose by betting on this new platform.

The team, which presented its findings during the Woot ’10 USENIX workshop in Washington, DC, found that by simply taking photographs of the screens with the right lightning and camera positions allows unauthorized users to guess a user’s security pattern.

If you think that just cleaning the screen regularly would prevent this, then think again. According to the researchers, “smudges are surprisingly persistent in time.” They found that “it is surprisingly difficult to incidentally obscure or delete smudges through wiping or pocketing the device.” In the team’s experiments, the pattern was partially identifiable 92% of the time and in 68% of cases, it was fully identifiable.

You can find the full paper here.

via id Unleashes Impressive Rage On The iPhone.

To invoke this feature, Android users will first have to install the necessary application on their devices (Voice Search, Google Search widget and music apps that support this feature). Then, they can invoke the app by either tapping the microphone button on the Google search box on the home screen or by pressing the physical search button on their phone.

Here is a list of the available commands:

You just have to love how open these guys are about their sales figures.