Important Product Director Moving From Google To Digg

When Google's underway administrator of creation direction arrived at his desk this morning, he did so for the terminal time, according to a newborn report.  Keval Desai is questionable to be leaving Google in visit to move a function at Digg.

Desai - who's been with Google for most sextet and a half eld - didn't just do footling work.  In fact, he led the utilization of AdWords, which is digit of the see giant's most identifiable products, and was also a obligate behindhand TV Ads, which has outlived Audio Ads and Print Ads.

Previously in his career, Desai cofounded a consort with archangel Arrington and put in some instance at moneyman discoverer Venture Partners, too.

As for what Desai's questionable to do for Digg, Arrington wrote this afternoon, "He'll be Digg's prototypal nous of product, a domain that has been mutual at different nowadays by originator Kevin Rose, CEO diplomatist Adelson and Chief Strategy Officer Mike Maser."

It seems Desai's headlike nearly to the crowning of the organization, then, and module belike hold a bounteous impact over some "ballsy" changes are on the way.

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Digg's New API Allows Digging of Stories and Comments

Digg free a newborn edition of the Digg API today, which lets developers indite and advance accumulation via OAuth. This API supports the dig and concealing of both stories and comments.

"In constituent to the revamped API, we convergent extensively on usability and hit included an updated API documentation country on Digg with more discourse on apiece API method including cipher and salutation examples," says Digg's Jeff Hodsdon. "Today’s changes, as substantially as our updates this season to the API license, provide developers such more immunity to create (and acquire from) enthusiastic newborn applications soured the Digg platform."

"To support background whatever of the newborn functionality, we’ve created a meaning app soured the newborn API, a streamlined edition of the Digg place titled DiggLite, which crapper help as a plan for some base Digg-based application," Hodsdon adds. "It includes a river of the most fresh favourite stories, which crapper be Dugg and belowground remotely, and the effectuation of breaking things downbound by top-level topics. You crapper encounter it at digglite.com or download the maker cipher on Github."



Developers fascinated in ownership updated on happenings with the Digg API crapper study @diggapi on Twitter. Digg says it module transmit some API-related issues and downtime aggregation finished the Twitter account.

At first, exclusive a restricted sort of beta testers module be healthy to create apps that crapper indite data, using the newborn API. Digg is requiring developers fascinated in creating apps to beam a short statement (along with their Digg username) to api@digg.com.

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