Founder of Digg and Revision3, Joins 3Crowd Board of Directors

Jay Adelson has joined the 3Crowd Technologies company's Board of Directors.Jay Adelson,the former CEO of Digg,chairman and co-founder of Revision3,was also the founder and chief technology officer of Equinix, Inc.In 1998 he founded that Adelson also was one of the founders of PAIX,the Peering And Internet eXchange, a neutral Internet exchange point.

"Barrett's track record as an entrepreneur and his ability to consistently create better services that disrupt and improve the status quo, are the reasons why I supported 3Crowd early on in its development," said Jay Adelson. "As a new member of the Board of Directors, I look forward to working with the team to further the company's growth."

In addition to Jay Adelson, the other members of the 3Crowd Technologies Board of Directors include Maha Ibrahim, general partner, Canaan Partners; Ryan Floyd, managing director, Storm Ventures; Barrett Lyon, CEO and co-founder, 3Crowd; and Chris Wallace, vice president of Business Development and co-founder, 3Crowd.

"I have worked with Jay for several years and am excited that we will be able to work together on the growth of 3Crowd," said Barrett Lyon, CEO and co-founder. "His presence and insight will, I am sure, provide significant benefit to the development of 3Crowd and result in considerable enhancements."

Digg Introduce New Features

Digg social networking website has added a new feature called ‘Breaking News’ to its website.The feature can be seen on the right side of the Top News, My News and Upcoming pages on Digg.

The Breaking News section will be curated by Digg staff, in an effort to showcase important news as quickly as possible.

Right now it shows five stories at a time, with one of them being highlighted as a Hot Story. The new section will also allow Digg to aggregate stories on a particular topic.

Returns of Digg Bury Button

Since the released of new version of Digg v4 at the end of the August the "Bury" button, which allows users to remove those stories which they don't want on there page or they can mark it as garbage of spam.Yhe Bury button was high on the complaint list for most users,right up there with the loss of Digg's photo and video section, after the launch of Digg v4.Developer Jamie Lottering,in a blog post yesterday announced that the Bury button feature is now return to digg and showed users how burying stories will work with the new Digg.

Digg, the company which gets very popular in less time as a social media and user-customizable news has had serious problems in recent months. After going to through a 4 CEO's in last six months, the all expressed that "The return of the Bury button isn't going to fix the company's problems, but it does signal the company is listening to users' complaints. "

The main reason user wanted this bury button is to tag those posting spam and illegal which are posted by users with out any description, for advertising or adding illegal content. This bury users will help make those post spam and it automatically sent for the review to Digg's so they can check whether the submission is under the Digg's term's and condition.

Will Digg Unbury The Bury Button

Kevin Rose, the founder of digg just tweeted out a poll in which he is considering to bring back the bury button. Around 68% of the Digg users wanted the Bury feature back. In the latest Version Digg4 the “Bury” feature was taken off the site.The company has been working hard at bringing back some of the site’s old features but nothing has been implemented yet, and they are facing severe decline in there traffic ratio. One of the most important features abstracted in the site’s revamp, could be essential in convincing its core users to return to Digg, who are already shifting on to Reddit and other social networking platforms website. The Digg can only get back there declined and shifted traffic by bringing back the bury feature to there social network website.