Digg VP of Engineering Ben Folk-Williams has uploaded a screenshot of Digg’s traffic between May and October of this year. It appears that in the month of October, Digg.com received about 17 million unique visitors in traffic and this has been somewhat consistent since this past May. About 50% of the visitors were from the United States.

Keval Desai, the VP Product Management at Digg, is stepping down. This is happening shortly after Digg founder Kevin Rose stepped down only to remain on the company’s board of directors. Desai joined Digg in January 2010 after leaving Google. Ben Folk-Williams will be replacing Desai.

Digg founder Kevin Rose has stepped down from the company recently. He has started a new company in stealth mode and is close to raising $1 million in funding. Rose launched Digg in December 2004 and it gained popularity very quickly.

Digg launched a new version of their service in August. Ever since then, traffic has been plummeting. A lot of the Digg community moved on to Reddit. Digg has not been the same since 2008 when President Obama was being elected and traffic was surging. Even Digg founder Kevin Rose is not that active on the website any more.

Social bookmarking website Digg.com has hired Ben Folk-Williams as the VP of Engineering to replace John Quinn. Quinn left this past November to join online retail company Gilt Groupe. Before Digg, Folk-Williams was the VP of Engineering at online marketplace company Vast.com.

On the Diggnation podcast, Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that he had talks with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) about taking over Delicious. This was before an internal memo leaked where Yahoo! said they are planning to sunset Delicious.

John Quinn, the former Digg VP of Engineering is joining Gilt Groupe as the VP of Engineering this coming Monday. Quinn will be working at Gilt’s New York office and will be reporting to CIO Steve Jacobs. Quinn had worked at Digg for three years and had previously worked at Squaretrade as the VP of Engineering there too.

After the new version of Digg launched, a lot of the community started to lose interest and left to join Reddit.com. Now it takes even longer for breaking news to hit the Digg.com homepage since a less number of users are voting. And if breaking news is not on the homepage, people will turn to other sources like Google News, CNN, etc. Digg is adding a breaking news module that will be managed by staff members. These modules will appear on the right side of the Top News, My News, and Upcoming stories. [ReadWriteWeb]