Ooo, neato: Digg Launches New Toolbar- Makes Digging and Sharing Easier
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
by andrewsauter
Although I’ve been a bigger fan of Reddit lately (I like how it has a sub-reddit for just about anything, including social media). This just came through my Twitter account, via Read Write Web. Digg just launched a new toolbar to make sharing easier. I’m a little toolbared out at the moment, but I may have to check this one out:
Full Article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_launches_diggbar.php
And we have a bookmarklet that makes it even better!
Digg, the popular social news site, just launched its long awaited DiggBar, a new toolbar that will appear on any page Digg links to. From within the toolbar, users can digg stories and share them with their friends on Twitter and Facebook. Digg will now also feature shortened URLs, and, maybe even more interestingly, Digg now also displays how many times a story has been clicked through from Digg.In addition, the new toolbar will allow users to see other stories on Digg from the same source, as well as related stories. Users will also be able to see some comments directly from the toolbar, though this is currently restricted to the latest, most controversial, and the most popular comments.
How to Get It
If you want to see the DiggBar in action, all you have to do is enter “digg.com/” in front of any URL, and the toolbar will automatically appear at the top of the page. Or, you can use our own DiggBar bookmarklet. Instructions for setting it up are at the end of this post.
More Features
The toolbar also features a prominent ‘Random’ button, that will, as the name implies, take you to a random page with a similar story that was popular on Digg in the last few days. This, of course, is very similar to what StumbleUpon does.
