Digg’s Kevin Rose revealed Digg’s numbers from July, and it seems that Reddit beat those by almost 40%! Incredibly, Reddit has 1/20th of the staff that Digg has. Of course, neither party is sharing unique visitor numbers, so those could tell a different story.

Either way, I’m actually pretty happy to see this. Digg isn’t as relevant as it once was, especially with their latest overhaul of their website.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

The revolters have even go so far as flooding Digg with Reddit links to drive traffic away from Digg. Why? Apparently, the way that the new Digg works allows major news sites and publishers to dominate the front page. Now that the power has shifted away from a small group of powerful contributors, many diehard users have started to abandon Digg for Reddit.

The Reddit/Digg spam links were in full force on Monday, but have quieted down since then. From what Digg says, it’s impossible for them to revert to a previous version, so I think we’ll be stuck with the new Digg for a while. To be honest, I’ve always like Reddit more than Digg anyhow. What do you guys think of the new Digg?

[via DVice]

Half of the links on Reddit go to Imgur, a photo-sharing site created by a Redditor. Digg’s top destination is YouTube. A quarter of the top links on Reddit point to Reddit itself. This means that Reddit users are creating self-referential posts. Digg is focused more on traditional news sites, like the Huff Post and the UK Guardian.

I stopped using Reddit a few years ago. But, I always preferred Reddit over Digg. Whichever site you choose, these social bookmarking sites can be controversial, since a tiny percentage of users seem to create and promote most of the content. Digg and Reddit have tried to makes things more balanced over the years, but the jury is still out on who will be victorious.

[Rate Rush vis Wired]

In addition to the over-the-top case design, the system is loaded up with a goodly amount of high-end components, including:

• Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU w/ Asus Silent Square HSF
• Asus P5B-Deluxe Motherboard
• 3GB DDR2 Memory (2GB Gskill HZ DDR2-800 & 1GB (512×2) Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066)
• 3x500GB Western Digital WD5000YS Hard Drives
• BFG 8800GTS 640MB Video Card
• Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
• 18x Sata DVDRW w/ lightscribe
• Hiper 580watt Power Supply
• Noritake 3900 512×32 VFD
• PCI fan controller & LPT port

It even includes a matching, custom painted 20-inch LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse, and slick aluminum mouse pads to round out the system. And how can you resist that cool blue illumination around the digg logo? There’s even a bright blue RSS reader module that displays the current top Digg stories and displays them on the front of the case.

The machine has been touring the country as a showcase piece for the company, and has only about 30 hours of use on it. Now that they’re ready to move on to the next big thing, so it’s up for sale. Starting bid for this one-of-a-kind machine is $2500, but it’s sure to rise before the auction ends on September 27th. If you’d like to get in on the bidding action, check out the entire auction listing here.

Much like Digg Swarm, the Flash-based application produces a very slick real-time map of player activity on Xbox Live. From what I could tell, you can also search for games or user profiles meeting specific criteria. The usermap even allows you to view personal profile information including reputation, gamerscore and nickname, their location, sex and age, favorite game genre and occupation. I’m assuming privacy advocates would have a field day with this in the U.S., so maybe that’s why we didn’t get this feature.

A translated version of the help page for the usermap can be seen here.