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Top 10 Digg Tools To Improve Your Digg Experience
Blog Marketing May 27th, 2007
Visited 710 times, 1 so far todayHere is a top 10 list of Digg tools. These tools were created using the Digg API created for the Digg API contest and the following top 10 were the chosen finalists
- Digg - DiggGraphr Desktop
- Mini Digg
- D’Lite
- DiggCity
- Digg Watch
- Word Web
- Wheel of Upcomming
- DiggMob
- Digg Charts
- Digg Expose
DiggGraphr Desktop is a desktop application written in Apollo that allows you to look through Digg stories in treemaps structure. It also allows you to modify specific features as well as choose the channels you are interested in.
Mini Digg is a small Apollo Digg application that allows users to view stories and see the story activity, with user settings and a story tracking feature that allows to save favorite stories for future tracking.
D’Lite is an Apollo application that utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve their amazing data, information, and processes. Some of the cool features of this application include pagination, favorites, network detection, and smart auto refresh.
Digg City shows the 10 newest popular stories. The more popular the story gets, the taller the building. When someone diggs the story, a stick figure representing that user is added. This stick figure will then go inside the building or story that he has just Dugg.
Digg Watch is a tool that lets users browse Digg and grab interesting information from stories, like who Dugg what stories and how many Diggs a story gets over time. You can also browse pages of submitted stories right in the application.
Word Web analyzes the relationships between popular keywords and the stories they appear within. Words that appear more often are displayed more prominently, and you should click on these words to explore deeper connections. Built using Flex 2.
Wheel of Upcoming displays recently submitted stories in a spiral pattern that a user can rotate using mouse gestures. Stories are color-coded based on activity. Users can select categories or subcategories. Story details are also made available.
DiggMob is a mobile interface for Digg in FlashLite 2.x. DiggMob displays the popular stories from a category, allows reading the teaser, and can direct the phone browser to the full article. Preferences are saved to the phone for easy entrance after the first run.
Digg Charts is a flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories. Additionally, a graph is generated showing a selected story’s popularity over time. The user view allows viewing a user’s popular submitted stories.
Digg Expose takes snap(.com) shots of pages from Digg and displays them in a configurable exposé © view. Drag the images around, sort them, or change the category. Enjoy.
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[ # 97 ] Comment from Paul [August 17, 2007, 7:05 pm]
Another useful site:
You can get info on your Digg comments as well as your story submissions.
[ # 96 ] Comment from Shareaholic [August 17, 2007, 6:51 am]
Another useful Digg tool is the Shareaholic firefox add-on, which can be found at http://shareaholic.com
Among other things, it displays whether or not the current web page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg. If so, it will tell you how many Diggs the page has received. Unlike some other extensions, it calls the Digg API only when asked, saving bandwidth, and ensuring user privacy!