If you're on Facebook, you've more than likely already come across stories in your news feed that say "So and so read an article on _____." Fill in the blank with Yahoo! or the Guardian or the Washington Post or some other well-known news medium.

Love 'em or hate 'em, they've been popping up all over the place on Facebook for the past little while, and on Monday, BuzzFeed FWD reported that these social readers were apparently "collapsing" and even "falling off a cliff right now."

I was happy to hear it, because I couldn't stand the darned things and had been frantically pressing the "hide" button on all of them whenever they appear. BuzzFeed included bunch of fancy graphs were included to help prove it, along with a few dramatic Twitter and Facebook reactions to the BuzzFeed article.

Not surprisingly, BuzzFeed's entire business is to do just what its name says--feed you buzz. All of us haters really wanted to hear that the social readers are doomed. Reading that headline was like ice cream in my ears, and all I wanted to do was share the glorious news, which I did by tweeting the BuzzFeed link on Twitter. Darn you BuzzFeed and your sneaky viral tactics!

So, a lot of us were led to believe that these social news apps were indeed collapsing because everyone just got ticked off by all the noisy news feed garbage.

But no! That's not actually what happened.

Shortly after, Inside Facebook reported that the social readers aren't collapsing at all, and each news medium has experienced mixed results. TechCrunch also pointed out today that any drop in social news reader use is likely a result of Facebook's transition to showing something new called "trending articles," which groups together fewer articles and appears less often.

Ta-da! Makes more sense, right? It was too easy to jump to the hostile conclusion that everyone just got super annoyed with the social readers, which BuzzFeed kind of made the mistake of doing (maybe even on purpose for the sake of making it go viral) rather than looking deeper into the trend. Hopefully they'll make it up to us by posting another viral photo-only article of adorable corgis in top hats or tiny turtles at tea parties.

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There's something new and shiny in Foursquare land. Today, the popular location-based service launched its new searchable history pages to give users the opportunity to easily view their past venue checkins in timeline format.

The new history pages can be accessed via Foursquare.com for the web and look similar to what you see on the check-in history tabs for their mobile apps.

I rarely access Foursquare via the web and almost always just stick to using the app, but the new history pages might actually force me to look over the places I've been and add them to favorites or hotspot lists. As you scroll down, you also get a nice glimpse of all the comments or photos that were included with each checkin.

And you can even narrow down past venue check-ins by searching for a particular name, category, or friend you were with at the time. Not bad.

Check it out. Sign-in to Foursquare and then visit Foursquare.com/history.

There are rumors floating around that the once popular bookmarking site Digg is being acquired by the Washington Post. TechCrunch reported that the staff has been acquired, but the site itself has not.

Anthony Ha explains, "In other words, this is a talent acquisition, and in fact Digg properties, patents, and assets are still for sale."

So Digg staff will be heading over there to work on enhancing and perfecting current projects with the Washington post, but does that mean the actual Digg site will get shut down for good? It's hard to say for certain, but it definitely looks like it might happen.

So long, Digg. It was nice knowing you, but I honestly haven't used you in years.

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If you're into design, you're probably going to want to listen up.

It looks like 99designs is preparing for a big homepage design overhaul. And as the top online marketplace for crowdsourced designs, they've launched a pretty cool contest that gives designers the opportunity to completely redesign their homepage--with a nice reward of $1,000 for the top three winning designs.

You've still got another week and five days to enter the qualifying round before the judges select the finalists. Once the finalists have been chosen, the designers enter the final round of the contest and the top winners will be selected.

The great thing about this contest is that 99designs is basically open to anything in terms of design, so you have maximum flexibility.

This is your chance to really get creative and potentially get your work permanently hosted right on the front page of a really popular website. Pretty cool, if you ask me.

The full description and contest rules can be found here.

Good luck!