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Hmm looks like Digg just got the “Digg effect”. You can never have enough bandwidth. Yeah that’s right folks. Digg is down. I’m not sure why. But, at first you couldn’t even load Digg and now they have a page with all their hot topics and the title of the page says “Digg will be back soon!”.

While we’re getting the site back up and running… check out the latest news before we took the site offline. If there are updates during this outage we’ll keep you informed on the Digg Blog. Thanks for your patience!

Okay so its confirmed that Digg ran out of bandwidth. Or maybe that’s not the reason. I can’t tell what’s going on. I’ll look around and update you guys. So, stick around!

Oh and here’s a screenshot of the “Digg will be back soon” page.

Update (10 mins later): Digg is back up again. Yay!

Update again: Looks like Digg’s acting as if it never happened. I emailed them. No reply. Checked their blog. No post about this. Oh well.

Yeah that’s right people. My spidey senses are telling me that the next PageRank is going to be within the next few days. I’m just sharing it with you guys. I know a lot of us don’t care about PR anymore (I don’t).

Oh look. I was right! Matt Cutts, head of Google spam team posted on his blog confirming this. Man my spidey sense are awesome. Just amazing, huh?

So tell us if you care about PR or not. I personally don’t. Like I do a bit, but I don’t go crazy about it (like all the people over at DP and a lot of other webmasters). I would be happy to have a high PR, but I wouldn’t do all the crazy link exchanges, backlinks, etc to get it. I would rather concentrate on writing great content for my blog.

Wanna check your PR? Head over to Smart PageRank or PRchecker.info. Or you can also check it from your Google Toolbar (but I wouldn’t install the Google toolbar).

Update: PR has been updated.

There are tons of social networks out there. Its hard to choose which one we should use. Some friends use this, others use that, bla bla blah. Well there’s a new site to fix that problem. Its called Ping.fm.

Ping.fm allows you to update all your social networks at once. Yesterday I just joined both Twitter and Plurk. I was totally onced. I didn’t know which one I should use. Both of them looked awesome. Now Ping.fm solved the problem for me.

Things you can update with Ping.fm:

• Bebo
• Blogger
• Brightkite
• Facebook
• FriendFeed
• Hi5
• Identi.ca
• Jaiku
• kwippy
• LinkedIn
• LiveJournal
• Mashable
• MySpace
• Plaxo Pulse
• Plurk
• Pownce
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• WordPress.com
• Xanga

They’ve got all the social networks covered. I just started using Ping.fm and I simply love it! They made it easy to post to different social networks by breaking them down into 3 groups: blogging, micro-blogging & updates. You can use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or email to update.

This site is just amazing. What a great idea! I’m sure this is going to be the hot cake once its out of private beta. BTW, I got the beta code for you guys.

Want the beta code? Its “pingscompany“. Have fun and tell us what you think of it.