This might just be a shot in the dark, but I wonder if digg is going to start moving in a more social direction. Kevin Rose recently commented:
BIG feature overhauls coming... just give us a little more time.
What we know is that there will be a new images category, so there can be a bit more organization there. Hopefully news will stay news, video will be in video, and images in the images category. Also, in the past I recall that Rose mentioned that they want to somehow bring those separate pieces of digg together more... right now the Videos section is pretty inactive, since it isn't the front page. I'm guessing they might do some sort of a mix of all three for the front page.
But if you have a mix of everything on the front page (News, Videos, Podcasts, and Images), it gets a bit muddy. Kevin has said in the past that they really want to start bringing in more personalized news, so if you like Linux, Baseball, and Business, those stories will become more stressed to you personally.
This, to me, seems reminiscent of Facebook's News Feed. Personalized recommendations based off of friends and groups. Makes me wonder if this is the sort of direction that digg will eventually head towards. Along those lines, it might make sense to personalize social aspects more- give digg profile pages more room to customize so people can comment on more aspects of themselves (professional bio, additional contact information, topics they're interested in, a cleaner listing of friends, etc.) I think it's silly to think that digg is going to encroach on Facebook, but it's foreseeable that they could be leveraging some of the same ideas that Facebook has stumbled upon over the last couple of years.
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