Digg is now attacking Twitter in every possible way, gets a "fail ox"

If you’ve been on the new Digg at all in the past day or so you’re probably already familiar with the above “Fail Ox” image, especially if you’re trying to use Digg search. The image is new, and is the result of Digg designer Tyson Rosage‘s obsession with the old school computer game The Oregon Trail.
Digg’s Kevin Rose told TechCrunch and Twitter last night that Digg experienced over 1 million unique visits on its launch day (the site has been averaging about 8.7 million unique visits per month, according to Comscore) as well as “a handful of new bugs.”

“We hope to have all the major issues fixed in the next 24hrs,” says Rose, which might affect the ubiquity of the “404″ page. Consensus among users I’ve talked to is that the site seems to be moving forward from the scaling issues it had yesterday both in terms of speed and in terms of frequency of “Fail Oxen.”

Hey, having a twee “something is broken” image seems to have worked out for Twitter.

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Digg VS Reddit (Infograph)

There’s always been a form of healthy rivalry between Reddit and Digg, and its respective user bases. I’m one of those indifferent people who think there’s plenty of room for multiple sites of the kind, and that these sites actually make each other stronger and better in their state of co-existence. Rising tide lifting all boats and all that.

Nevertheless, I was keen on sharing an email from reader Harry Maugans, which we received moments ago:
I’ll be brief. We’ve spent the past two weeks recording every popular story to appear on Digg and Reddit (24 hours a day), and we’ve now compiled our results into an infographic that shows a pretty interesting comparison of the two sites.

Since Digg and Reddit have been in the news quite a bit recently (Digg 4.0 Alpha and Reddit Gold), I thought this might be interesting to your readers.

Well Harry, we happen to think so too (click the image for a larger version).

I’ll let the actual infographic do the rest of the talking:

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Mashable ups the ainty adds a BIG Facebook like button.

Mashable the arguably biggest tech blog on the internet has upgraded the option to like its posts threw Facebook. They have also gotten rid of the Google Buzz button which in a way is a surprise because they talked so much about it. They have driven more attention to there Digg button, which they have been bashing a bit recently, they also still have that retweet button and a share of Facebook button which I think is were the Google Buzz button should be or heck, put a Shoutitout button there. They also like almost every blog have a button that allows you to share threw email. Then there is that huge Like button as shown above. So do you plan to add a similar button to your blog or site or are you going to stick to what you already have added? Let us know in the comments below!

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New Digg clone launches. Nicer than Digg

A new Digg clone called Swrrl has launched its an amazing site. Its just like Digg but faster and easier to use. It lets you post "Stories" and then "Swrrl" them up or declare them not for you. The site is created by 16 year old Chris Moon who we haven't heard of before but we know he lives somewhere in California. The site has not announced how its going to earn money or if it is going to just stay how it is. We will update you when we get a response from its CEO.

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Random Review: Digg

Digg is a site were you share like and people "digg" them up the Digg rankings. Digg was the first site of its kind created followed by Reddit, Delicious etc etc. I frankly thing Digg is pointless. You get the ability to share links, well you can do thats on Twitter, Shoutitout, Facebook and many other sites just as easy if not easyer. Also if you like the link you can like a favorite it I mean what does Digging have to do with the internet? Another thing is Digg's company doesn't seem to be in a good shape. Though they aren't as bad as Myspace, they have had people resign and things that I actually licked removed because of it. They also have pretty much copyed Twitter with there new version. So my grade for Digg is a D-!

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Digg rolls out a new search

Digg has rolled out a new search with features such as statistics and as well as simply a well, nicer search. It appears that Digg although I don't follow them that well is upgrading there site allot recently. Here are a few screen shots.

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Ding and Bing = Cha Ching

Bing the Microsoft search engine started off in a bolt dominating everything and being said that it could downthrow Google. It has over 28,000,000 separate visitors after 3 months of being on the web. Well, it looks like another search engine that rhymes with Bing, Ding has done the same. Ding, is a social media search. It searches site like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc... it is also believed they will also be search sites like Digg and Lala. The site got somewhere between 100,000 and 120,00 visits today alone almost as much as sites like Bing do. It has gotten an estimate of $10,000 in today alone as well, and had caught the eye of many large companies.