{"id":64521,"date":"2009-12-05T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Digg-Turns-5-Gets-an-Official-Day-in-San-Francisco-128956.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-05T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:12:00","slug":"digg-turns-5-gets-an-official-day-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/64521","title":{"rendered":"Digg Turns 5, Gets an Official Day in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Digg-Turns-5-Gets-an-Official-Day-in-San-Francisco-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>Digg may not be the hottest thing in Silicon Valley at the moment, thanks to Facebook and Twitter stealing all the spotlight, but don&#8217;t discount the social news aggregator just yet. As it turns five years old, the site is looking forward to a new chapter in its history as the features implemented over the past year begin to shift Digg towards a new but promising direction. Oh, and it also gets a rather official recognition, as December 4 gets proclaimed Digg.com Day in San Francisco where its headquarters are.<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;Five years ago today, Digg.com went live. What started as a simple idea has certainly come a long way. From a vision of a new way to surface news, and a team of three, to 40+ million monthly visitors and 80+ passionate employees&hellip;well, suffice it to say that I&rsquo;m very proud of what we&rsquo;ve become,&rdquo; Digg Co-founder Kevin Rose wrote on the site&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;There have been a lot of memorable moments over the years. From the Paris Hilton phone hacking incident to cracking the HD-DVD key, you guys have defined Digg and are the reason for our growth. To date, we&rsquo;ve had over 14 Million stories submitted and Dugg by you,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p> The site has come a long way from its launch five years ago but, at the same time, it has managed to maintain its co&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Digg-Turns-5-Gets-an-Official-Day-in-San-Francisco-128956.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg may not be the hottest thing in Silicon Valley at the moment, thanks to Facebook and Twitter stealing all the spotlight, but don&#8217;t discount the social news aggregator just yet. As it turns five years old, the site is looking forward to a new chapter in its history as the features implemented over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}