The popular "social" news site Digg revamped its design and added some new features earlier today. In addition to a new liquid width design optimized for large monitors, Digg has several new features including the ability to digg podcasts, more video features and a new, live-updating, "Top 10" feature.

The biggest new feature is the ability to digg podcasts. In an attempt to broaden its appeal, Digg is moving beyond web headlines to "deeper" content like podcasts. 

Among the new features in the podcast section is the ability to listen to dugg podcasts within the Digg site. Dugg podcasts can be browsed by series and individual episodes which makes it easy to find podcasts by topic and jump to the most popular episode to see if you like it. Currently the podcasts section is in beta and will require a Digg account to use.

The new layout also sees Digg putting a greater emphasis on the video portion of the site. In addition to giving video its own spot on the top navigation bar, it's now possible to watch videos directly within Digg. Videos from supported services (YouTube, Metacafe and more) can be viewed in an AJAX overlay which embeds the video player and also provides a link to digg the video.

The news pages now offer the ability to sort based on the most popular stories within certain time periods, including the last twenty four hours, last seven days, last thirty days and the last year.

Another nice new feature is the "Top 10" list in the right hand column of most pages on the site which allows you to see at the glance what is "hot" right now on Digg. The new top 10 feature changes categories as you zoom into the the site, showing the top ten list for whatever category you're browsing through.

The new layout will be welcomed by Digg users with large monitors and the top navigation makes finding your way around much easier (which is how it should have been all along). 

[1]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=57