There is one popular social media site I have never used, never registered with: Digg. I always felt complacent to vote on stories, never really got it. Well, that was true for Twitter as well until I used it more often. However I am a sucker for every application that is featuring open standards and today’s announcement from Digg actually made me join it and maybe I will use it regularly.
Digg is already featuring hCards on profile pages as well as MicroID. Implementation of MicroID happened pretty much unnoticed by everyone it seems. But yes, it’s there.
Now Digg also wants to support OpenID. It wanted to join this growing standard one year ago already but nothing happened. It’s unclear if it will become a provider, a relying party, or both. Don’t ask me why, but I think it will be both. Just a feeling, no info here.
Also Digg will add other open standards like APML, OAuth, and XFN. I am curious if, what, when, and how all this will be realized and implemented. Oh, Digg has joined that working group everyone else has joined the last couple of weeks as well.
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