Digg Founder Confirms Native App For iPhone

Two years after Apple announced a Digg website for iPhone, Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, the popular social news aggregation service has confirmed that the company is in fact building their own native iPhone app that shall be released shortly. 

The announcement was made pretty accidentally when CNET editors caught Kevin Rose off guard toying with the app on his iPhone at the recent 'Future of Web Apps' conference. 

The mobile version of Digg is currently optimized for the iPhone and has the ability to dig links and also lets users to view the top five comments on each link. 

As CNET points out, there are a few hurdles in establishing a seamless functioning of the iPhone app for a service like Digg which requires users to visit websites on their browser and submit links via the Digg app. However, it is likely that the new Digg app shall come with an in-built mini-browser that will let the users to browse and dig using the same interface. It will also be interesting to see if the Digg iPhone app will make use of Push Notification Service for the live Notification feature that is available in it's toolbar for Firefox.

The present Digg for iPhone website, while minimalistic, is still highly user friendly on the iPhone. We had in fact listed them among our list of top iPhone friendly websites back in 2007. As Kevin Rose had pointed out back then, the iPhone version of Digg was coded in less than two days. Close to two years since then, we believe the new Digg iPhone app will offer a lot more sophistication to iPhone users.  

Here is a video of Kevin Rose talking about the new iPhone app:

If you are a Digg user, let us know your thoughts on the features that you'll be looking forward to in the upcoming iPhone app. 

[via CNET]

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