The Digg Reader will be out on June 26 just giving everyone enough time to migrate before Google Readers shuts down on July 1. This was announced by the Digg team Monday through its official blog.
The engineering team of Digg has been hard at work in the past three months to build the RSS reader that will be able to take in users of the Google Reader.
The Digg Reader will be a "freemium" product and that all available features next week will be part of the free service.
"For our first public release, in time to (just) beat the shutdown of Google Reader, our aim has been to nail the basics: a web and mobile reading experience that is clean, simple, functional, and fast. We're also introducing a tool that allows users to elevate the most important stories to the top," the team stated in its Digg Reader update post.
Prior to the official launch next week, Digg gave access to about 18,000 individuals who signed up to give them feedback about the RSS reader. Based on the feedbacks, Digg Reader's beta version will allow for easy migration from Google Reader, have a clean reading feel, permit mobile app syncing, and have support for easy subscription, sharing, and organization of feeds.
After the initial release, the Digg team wants to follow up with an Android app, improve the speed of the reader, integration with third-party services such as Evernote and Buffer and tools to sort feeds and reading list based on ones interests, likes and networks.
"While you're at the beach and doing foliage cruises (or whatever people do in October), we'll be spending the summer and fall building out a richer feature set, drawing heavily on users' feedback, ideas, and requests. But first, we want to get the basics right, starting with a clean and uncluttered design and a powerful backend infrastructure than can operate well at scale," the Digg team explained.
When Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader, some of the replacements that created some buzz are Feedly, The Old Reader, NewsBlur, and Pulse. Digg Reader caught the attention of power users while Facebook might also get into the game this week.
