Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App
In a bit of "gotcha" journalism, interviewers Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone.
When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview of the application, Rose was visibly surprised. "I cannot show that off yet. You're not even supposed to know about that... Nobody knows about that." A video of the interview is embedded below.
The duo's full interview with Rose will be available shortly via their weekly tech video podcast.
How did the interviewers end up catching a glimpse of the application? Eriksen wrote us today in an email, "We were sitting next to each other, and he had his iPhone in hand. I was turning to him to ask him a question when I saw him playing around with the app."
It goes without saying that a Digg application would take a lot of pain out of social bookmarking for a large number of smartphone users. Currently, startups such as Smub have offered work-arounds for simpler saving and sharing of links on mobile devices.
The Digg iPhone app represents the company's first major mobile offering since a revamping of the Digg mobile site in July 2008. We can reasonably assume that Digg apps for other types of mobile devices will be released in the months to come, as well.
We at ReadWriteWeb are definitely looking forward to playing around with Digg's new toy when it's released. What do our readers think, and what kinds of features do you hope to see when the Digg app hits the App Store?
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Lmao. Perfect.
I am not an avid Digg user though so I could really care less O.o
onlywire is working on same, only for ALL social sites..
"It goes without saying that a Digg application would take a lot of pain out of social bookmarking for a large number of smartphone users."
I don't see how this takes any pain out of mobile social bookmarking. We'll still do most of our web browsing outside of the Digg app. Unless mobile Safari, all the Twitter apps, etc. integrate Digg bookmarking in their apps, this app will not make a meaningful dent in that "pain" (which I would agree in your characterization of it as such).
I'm always signed into digg to digg for people that submit to my social site blog engage but I would love to have digg on my new iphone 3g :)
This is good news. I was looking into getting one made for blogengage and to get a programmer to make a good one ti's so much money. It's about 6000 usd and that's at minimum for something like tweet deck.
Mad props to the interviewers for offering to cut that part of the interview out, and mad props to Kevin Rose for not making them.
Kevin and Jay announced the new Digg mobile app during the last Digg Town Hall on Aug. 13th. Get a real scoop. http://digg.com/townhall
From another blog's coverage of the recent Town Hall announcement: "The new Digg mobile site isn’t necessarily an iPhone app–it just looks cooler on the iPhone than the Blackberry."
This is still news. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
That's all right. I'll accidentally never download it.
Great! I'm an avid Digg user and I can't wait to try out the iPhone app when it comes out.
I did not realize Dig was still around?
As an avid Digg user, I can't wait to play with this new application.
Thanks for sharing!
Wait, people still use Digg?
I'm using people as a synonym for non-virgins over the age of 14, of course.
Haha, great work! Hopefully their will open up some developer APIs to allow third parties to remotely digg stories too.