Digg just announced the release of the official iPhone app. It appears to be very clean and well developed (and most importantly, free, as opposed to the others I’ve purchased). It has very nice drop down menus for stories, with digg up and digg down buttons. I have used diggle in the past but didn’t like very much. After using diggle briefly I switched to diggit, it was better but it still didn’t make me want to use. This official app, on the other hand, is more user friendly and intuitive.

In other news, digg and taptaptap are giving away 14 iPads to celebrate the release of the official digg app. Simply go to http://digg.taptaptap.com/ and follow @taptaptap on twitter, and retweet the message. At first I was a bit reserved about the iPad, given the very few apps shown, but I think there is real potential in this device. Just look at what became of iPhones, apps weren’t much of anything when it was first released but they later became the reason you buy an iPhone. Let’s see what happens with the iPad in six months; I think it will be amazing.

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