Digg Issues Cease and Desist to Diggdot.us

Diggdot.us, a site that mashes up digg, del.icio.us and Slashdot, has received a cease and desist letter from digg's lawyers. Other similar mirrors have received the same. As a result, diggdot.us has changed its name to Doggdot.us, however, it continues to index digg's feed with an asterisk in the name.

Digg has spurred a cottage industry of Web sites that scrape their feeds. In most cases, these sites layer on value-added services. For example, duggtrends caches all digg pages and provides rich stats.

Doggdot.us (formerly digggdot.us) continues provides direct links to digg pages, which makes it a lot easier for the user. They skip the visit to digg entirely and go right to the page. I subscribe to their feed. I want non-stop service, but digg loses the opportunity to serve me with ads. You gotta wonder how long that will keep up.