As we all know, Kevin Rose is the brilliant face behind the wildly popular social news site Digg.com. This past Sunday via this tweet Rose leaked a photo which shows a preview of what the new Digg may look like.

There’s actually some in-depth analysis and discussions over at TechCrunch’s post as well. It appears as though the entire home screen has gotten a re-make, showcasing more of a personal list of stories instead of the most popular for the day.

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YouTube has launched a new channel in celebration for its five year anniversary this month. The channel is a host to many user submitted videos discussing how YouTube has changed their life over the past 5 years, and how it’s affected their use of social networking sites and internet media in general.

You can find the channel called YouTube FiveYear with just over 10,000 subscribers already, and growing quickly. The amount of user submitted content is enormous, and all this growth comes at just the right time. It’s also been announced that YouTube has officially reached 2 billion impressions a day.

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All good social media resources will run plenty of accounts through many social networking websites. This allows for a much larger readerbase, as fans can find out about your site through many different means. Well today Inside the Webb finally has a Facebook Fan Page!

We have been running a Twitter @insidethewebb and a Google Buzz profile for a few months now. Since then we’ve seen a huge surge in traffic – not just from people checking out the site through our social profiles, but also checking out our latest articles shared through these resources.

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Google has made some major design changes over the past 10 or 20 years. Although their overall vision hasn’t changed much, they’ve added new features and design ideas to the site. Just recently they’ve launched their newest addition to Google with their new search listings design.

You can tell just from Google’s homepage that something’s different. The buttons and search bar look completely new and improved, along with some updates to their logo with added glossy and “web 2.0″ effects. Although not a new feature, Google has kept with the Ajax loading of header and footer links on the page for faster load times.

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Announced early during April 2010, Twitter has planned to roll out Twitter Sponsored Ads. This means users can pay to have their tweets sent in as many Twitter streams as they are willing to pay for. It’s an interesting business model and revenue stream for the network, but how will it stick?

The news has been everywhere (all over Mashable) and has spread far and wide, throughout the web. I haven’t heard of any companies utilizing the ads yet or what sort of CTR there is, but Twitter has launched a media blog discussing topics and categories related to ads.

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In a blog post this morning by Kevin Rose, it appears as though Digg has cut roughly 10% of their staff. Layoffs have been made to around 12 employees, and it was difficult on the entire staff to part with many members.

Digg has done nothing but grow over the past few months, so it’s surprising to see a reduction in their team. It seems as though there are still many engineering positions open for the platform, and Digg, Inc. is actively still interested in hiring for jobs.

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The transformation from the blogging era has already begun, as more and more people are learning how to start up their own online press. Now dubbed by many as online magazines, running your own personal blog isn’t hard these days. Finding writers and getting a design together is the hardest part, and once you’re set you can jump right in to launch your magazine venture!

I’ve recently been visiting Social Media Examiner quite a bit. From what I can tell the magazine holds a lot of promise, already holding a solid 20k+ feed subscribers and having most articles hit in the hundreds of ReTweets.

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