[larsberg]

Have you tried using any of them? Say what you will about Google Reader, but at least it didn't crash (most of the standalone apps) or require some sort of strange interpretive dance with your fingers to browse your articles and mark them as read (feedly).

There's definitely space here.

[muglug]

Right, but those apps nevertheless have a footprint and (hopefully) a codebase to improve upon. At this point in time Digg has none of that -- just a once-well-known brand and a new redesign that's failed to capture back the audience/community lost to Reddit and others. This looks more like a hail mary than a solid business decision.

[mintplant]

The team currently behind Digg does have experience in this space, though: they previously developed News.me, a Flipboard-alike, shuttered when they decided to put all their resources into Digg.