I don't see this as a competition with Digg unless they also implement some sort of social aspect to it. I think a lot of people use Digg, Reddit and the like m

I don't see this as a competition with Digg unless they also implement some sort of social aspect to it. I think a lot of people use Digg, Reddit and the like more for the conversation and community aspects than anything else. The article posits the theory that Bit.ly, with access to more URL submissions a day has an advantage over Digg for that reason. I don't but it. The killer app of social book marking is as a filter. Bit.ly will still have to lick the filtering issue, just as other social book marking sites have had to. I just find it funny that the article seems to state that Digg receiving 20,000 links a day is a disadvantage when in reality, it's sort of the entire point of a service like that.