With a major overhaul of the social news and content ranking site Digg scheduled later this year, the site’s founder Kevin Rose said that the proposed “drastic” redesign will be Digg’s biggest change and will help the site to embrace the real-time web in a better way.

Noting that the revamping will focus increasingly on real-time information and recommended content, Rose told The Telegraph: “People are going to be shocked at some of the directions we're taking. It will really be more about what people within one or two degrees of separation are up to – what they're consuming and enjoying.”

The 2004-launched Digg enables web users to discover and share content from around the Internet; and currently has over 35 million unique monthly users as well as a horde of news websites and blogs.

The site facilitates the sharing of the choicest articles of the readers – with the Digg members submitting links to stories, and the user community voting on how attention-grabbing those stories are by “digging” the articles they like, and “burying” those that they dislike.

The upcoming version of the site will witness stories being presented to readers in a more real-time nature, particularly those stories that a user’s friends have touched. In essence, ‘more social; more real-time; more graphic,’ Digg. com will be more about embracing all the content that all friends touch on other websites.