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April 2, 2009
DiggBar Enables Easier Social Bookmarking, Sharing
Lately, we've seen the emergence of toolbar-esque social media features that enable sharing and social networking without having to install a toolbar or visit a complete site. Google Friend Connect's Social Bar enables social networking with a horizontal "bar" of social networking that web developers can place on their site. Facebook has a bar that runs along the bottom of the page while you're hanging out on their site.
Now, DiggBar comes along to make the Digg experience easier. Whenever you're on a site, you can simply type "digg.com/" in front of the URL to launch the DiggBar.
From there you can add comments, share on Facebook, Twitter, etc. or click the "Random" button to see a random Digg submission.
Of course, this is very reminiscent of StumbleUpon's toolbar, but it does make it easier to Digg. I expect we'll continue to see these social bars pop up on more and more sites.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on April 2, 2009 5:08 PM
Comments
Jas April 3, 2009 6:27 AM
What most people fail to realize is that if Digg is allowed to frame other publishers' websites, more will follow their lead and soon the Web will be nothing but frames within frames (see image below).
http://tomuse.com/Frame-Spam-DiggBar-Krumlr-Facebook-HootSuite-Save-Web.html
This is exactly why frames were stopped in the early 1990's. The only difference is that these frame spammers are repackaging it as a service and baiting publishers with promises of greater traffic returns. In contrast to Digg's empty promises, publishers can improve their traffic stats by actually blocking the DiggBar.
Kevin April 12, 2009 7:38 PM
i've heard quite a bit of negative feedback about the digg toolbar, and some users are leaving because of it...
social search May 26, 2009 10:01 PM
http://twiggit.org/ is now using the DiggBar to link to articles in your tweets!