Digg.com has slowly transformed itself from a simple social bookmarking site into a voice of millions gathered together online. Information sharing and publishing has never been better with Digg.com. Even though you don’t have an account in this site, you can still learn a thing or two everyday just by browsing Digg stories.
But Digg.com doesn’t stop there; they released their own tools and released an API so that developers can create their own add-on for Digg. Although Digg.com’s tools are not quite as popular compared to blogging and SEO tools, any Digg.com user will find that most of the things they need could be provided by these tools.
We scouted the net and found five worth noting tools for Digg.com that could be useful even for less frequent users.
Digg Toolbar – a great option if you’re a frequent digg.com user. It works like Google.com in a sense that you can log-in to your toolbar and access your personal information in Digg.com. The Digg toolbar could also be used to search popular search engines. It also has a pop-up blocker that works like a common pop-up blocker. You can also find other information such as news from Digg.
Smart Digg Button – very easy to install and is very small in size (5kb). You will not see any changes in your webpage after this tool is installed. However, right click on any webpage and you’ll see more than copy and paste tools. Your right click will be transformed into a great Digg tool. You’ll be able to see how many people have Dugg (see? “Digg” is already a verb) the link, and if they are not Dugg yet. You’ll also have the ability to post it in your own Digg.com account.
Digg This! – works like Smart Digg, but very simple. If you like what you saw online, just right click on the link and you’ll be able to post it in Digg. However it has its fair share of problems and the last update was still in 2006. But compared to Smart Digg Button, it works really simple, and Smart Digg Button could eat a lot of your RAM power.
Digg Navigation Firefox Extension – you can find and download this tool from Wisegeek.com. Personally, I’m not a fan of right click extension since it will clog up my view of the webpage. But this “Me too” right click tool could convert your views in right click add-ons. Aside from right click, it can also be accessed in the Firefox options menu. If you’re in Digg.com, you can even access more information about users and posts such as related stories.
DiggNotify – it has been in beta version for the longest time but it doesn’t matter. This tool will notify you once someone actually Diggs the same story. Although it only works for the last 15 posts you did in Digg, it still useful as it monitors your posts constantly.
A toolbar, a right click tool and a notifier will be more than what you need to get you going in Digg.
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