The Digg Recom­mend­a­tion Engine recom­mends new stor­ies that may be of interest to you, com­pared with what you have already Dugg. It finds Dig­gers like you and uses what they have Dugg and recom­mends them to you. When I saw the video, I didn’t think I’d be part of the selec­tion that would get the fea­ture first.

First thoughts are very prom­ising. You need to be a fairly act­ive mem­ber of Digg to keep the recom­mend­a­tions rel­ev­ant, I should add — it grows in strength with stor­ies you Digg. If the com­pat­ib­il­ity between you and other users is low, then chances are you’ll get poor res­ults. For me, though, most recom­mend­a­tions were fairly accur­ate. My com­pat­ib­il­ity per­cent­ages were between 7 % and 13%.

For some­body who rarely uses the Upcom­ing fea­ture, this brings a wel­come change and I’ve already Dugg many stor­ies that I prob­ably wouldn’t have seen oth­er­wise. When the fea­ture hits main­stream, I dare say it’ll be used heav­ily and the recom­mend­a­tions will be very accurate.