Why Digg.com Should Have Launched A Social Network Earlier

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2007

Why did Facebook grow so fast? Page views!! How did Facebook get so many page views initially? E-mail notifications! What does Digg have now? E-mail notifications!

That is correct ladies and gentlemen: you will now see that Digg will start receiving a lot more page views, hence a higher Alexa ranking now that they have e-mail notifications built around their newly formed social network.

Kevin Rose should have thought of this idea earlier. E-mail notifications may start getting played out now though since people get tons of event spam from Facebook the more that users join groups.

Note to Digg users: keep watching Digg’s Alexa ranking. Here’s a video demo of their product’s new services: