Digg

Hey everyone,

Today we're rolling out the long-awaited release of Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows Facebook's 200+ million members to login and start Digging and commenting right away. If you're already a Digg member, linking your account makes it easy to cross-post, sharing your Digg activities on your Facebook home page.

After connecting, you will now have access to Digg friend features, such as our green story icons that appear once a friend has dugg a story. You can also choose to automatically follow your Facebook friends, or invite your friends to Digg from your Facebook Connect settings page in your profile (don't worry, we'll never spam your friends, this is an option that you personally control).

This represents one of the largest and more complex Facebook integrations to date. Over the past months, we have been working with the Facebook team to establish key standards and best practices, paving the way for future Facebook Connect partners. The team worked through several platform, data portability and scalability issues. We've given particular care to what the end-to-end experience look likes like as you enter, merge, or exit one or both services. The preference pages allow you to easily manage everything in one place and you always control the information you share.

Privacy is really important to us, so we've ensured that you'll always have complete control over your information. Whenever you Digg, comment, or submit, you'll see a dialog window asking you whether you want to share that info with your Facebook friends. Sharing your activity isn't currently automatic, so this setting allows you to publish only the actions you want to share. However, we'll soon be offering an option for you to publish all of your Digg activity if you wish to avoid the prompt. All of your preferences and privacy settings can be managed from the settings page in your profile. Should you ever choose to disable Facebook Connect, all personal information will be removed from the Digg site.

Check out Facebook Connect in action:

If you have more questions, be sure to check out our FAQ.

Connect your Facebook account to Digg

This is the first step in a line of initiatives to make it even easier to share the content you care about with the people you care about. As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions, so tell us what you think.

Thanks,
Kevin