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: