It is a pity an action like a “digg” is tied to one site, one owner. Imagine if someone had launched “email.com” way back when and staked an exclusive claim to that action. We’d then have a slew of services that were the same or similar but named differently. This problem has happened with the bookmark/link sites (delicious, BlinkList, Blue Dot etc.) who all do the exact same thing but call the action after their company. Blink it, blue dot it etc. It would go some way to helping new services communicate what they do if they could use a generic term. Like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and GMail all can do. They email. You don’t GMail your mom, you email her.
It would be grand if “to digg” broke free of the site and became a verb anyone could use.
