Since originally launching last April, Digg’s URL shortening service DiggBar has been marred with controversy, though things have mostly died down over the last few months. Now it looks like Digg has made a change to the service that will alight the web’s flames of fury anew, and this time their actions have moved from irritating to downright shady.

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  The social news site DiggDigg found itself criticized earlier this year after the release of the DiggBar and Digg short URLs, which some said “stole” traffic and pagerank from publisher sites to increase Digg’s pageviews…
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  At yesterday’s MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Engineering VP Vic Gundotra said the app store trend is just a fad and at some point powerful…
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  Yesterday Google Reader updated with more social features, including a “like” feature—but didn’t give you a way to view all the items that you “liked”. Reader Michel writes in with the solution.
  To view a list of all the items that you liked…
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  Want to get people to stick around and actually watch your dog-on-skateboard video? Try luring them with Twitter.
  So says video tracking service TubeMogul, which says…

• Digg Accused of Twitter Traffic Bait and Switch
• Sorry Google, ‘There’s A URL For That’ Doesn’t Have The Same Ring
• Display Just the Items You Liked in Google Reader
• Twitter Traffic More Valuable than Facebook or Digg for Video Publishers
• They Like to Watch: Twitter Users Keep Watching Video Long After Facebook and Digg Fans Bail Out
• Camtweet Does Justin.tv Live On Twitter

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