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Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

jenn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:28:04 -0000

I still think removing the shout will be have everlasting effects to the growth of Digg. No matter what fancy device comes out unless one can communicate through Digg to each other

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Ramonerassi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:10:09 -0000

It causes web pages to load slowly. Beyond that Digg will be sued for copyright infringement for adding the bar to every site that loads beneath it and for preventing the accurate reporting of URLs. Do you think that a corporation that pays to maintain a domain wants the socialists at Digg to hide the accurate reporting of their URL?

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

BATTERY — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:21:09 -0000

This is really a brilliant move on Digg's part.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

jeff — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:50:22 -0000

GTFO! It's a thinly veiled attempt to monopolize web content. Slow and intrusive and completely disrupts one's browser history.

Busy searching for a Firefox diggbar blocker. Ah gottit: http://daringfireball.net/2...

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Big Robby — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:23:55 -0000

I've never been a fan of Digg's politics, and fear that any large investment in time using their site to promote links, no matter how good the content. I don't think this changes that.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Alexandre Fugita — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:13:28 -0000

I think it make (a little) dificult to people like me that likes post links on delicious. I have to "unwrap" the post to hit delicious FF button.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

eric — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:28:30 -0000

what about when they start showing ads?

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

eric — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:26:52 -0000

Yes. They Blocked it. By adding a simple line of javascript inbetween their head tags which busts out any iframes loading their page.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

noyb — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:54:33 -0000

You mean the one that is already adblocked?

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

pc — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:23:04 -0000

no its more spam/pop ups done with digg it was nice years ago but digg is now just another 4 letter word for spam

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

flabbybuns — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:38:31 -0000

There is no profit. When shown amongst a frame (with Digg domain in address bar) advertisements don't pay. It's how ad groups prevent fraud.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

flabbybuns — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:37:29 -0000

Two problems with the toolbar:

1. No revenue for popular site. If your page goes popular on Digg now, all the traffic will be sent through a frame. MOST to all ad networks do not pay out for pages that don't have your exact domain in the address bar. So you, as the popular site, are paying for bandwidth, and hosting, to have Digg show off your content. So, in short, a popular article does great branding, but represents a loss of income in short run.

2. Just another way for Digg to exaggerate their stats and lie to investors. With the user still contained within the frame, Digg can claim a lower bounce rate, longer visit time, and more pages opened (guarantee they are counting that frame as a page opened).

It is a cool idea, but definitely has some seriously negative catches.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

TI — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:13:04 -0000

Digg’s core business is aggregating shared links and facilitating conversations between liberals, socialists and Marxists around those links along with some light social networking. Digg remains the hub for antisocial website aggregation.

The Digg Bar is a pain in the ass. It causes web pages to load slowly. Beyond that Digg will be sued for copyright infringement for adding the bar to every site that loads beneath it and for preventing the accurate reporting of URLs. Do you think that a corporation that pays to maintain a domain wants the socialists at Digg to hide the accurate reporting of their URL?

Tell the bisexual alchoholic Kevin Rose to go back to the drawing board.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

filesystemman — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:12:00 -0000

My favorite feature is the 't' button that shows you a picture of a whale!

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

JOhn Davis — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:26:47 -0000

I think this new "digg Bar" are whatever it is is a real pain in the rear! I hate toolbars in general.

RT
www.anon-tools.cz.tc

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

the_director — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:25:14 -0000

It seems like pages take longer to load with this Digg bar. First day, I'll get used to it.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Richard Sakai — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:37:58 -0000

I was about to criticize the article on pandering to the digg audience based on the headline but upon reading it - I realize it's more about the marketing aspect and indeed I would say that is truly a clever idea on Digg's part.

I would extend to say that this is basically the first case of a Social Site using Viral Marketting to gain traction. Usually we hear of the inverse, a site using social sites to gain viral status - but here we have digg appending themselves on links meaning that tons of users (non digg users) will visit through those short digg urls and all the while have a digg ad above in the header. The genius of this idea is not fully apparent, until you realize that when people link to these sites - they're most likely going to link to the digg url, and not the actual url itself due mostly to Digg using some slippery javascript to append the short url when a user clicks a link. of course being standards compliant they added the ability to just visit the url straight on if javascript was disabled or a special cookie set to ignore the diggbar.

Great for Digg, bad for sites being marketed as the visitors will have a selection of two urls to link from - 1) the digg story page, 2) the digg short url bar and 3) the actual url itself.

I wonder if the diggbar page will start showing up in google results, or whether digg will add a nofollow or noindex to the diggbar pages. If they don't it could mean that the diggbar starts out-ranking the actual content.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:13:12 -0000

The Digg bar, while useful, is really more a traffic retention tool than anything else. I've seen these bars popping up on myriad URL shortening services. You know the ads on that bar aren't far behind.

On the positive side, it's easy enough to use javascript to break the frame.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

chris o. — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:25:44 -0000

I don't really see how you can say Digg is somehow copying others by implementing a toolbar?

There really are only a handful of popular mediums to deliver content.

Website, toolbar, add-on, widget, download software.

best,
Chris O.
Referral Key

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

WendyMerritt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:15:29 -0000

This makes Digg a little more user friendly and convenient. I guess I'll give it a try. Thanks for the great article and the video.

Blessings,
Wendy

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

rickt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:12:10 -0000

Two words: CORPORATE SHILL.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Kevin Butler — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:09:28 -0000

I am new to Digg and so I don't know what it's like not having the digg toolbar but when I first visited I almost envisioned that it would have something like this so I'm pretty happy that they do have it.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Sean Duffy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:18:09 -0000

The Digg bar is available via my toolbar.. if you are not sure how to install the Digg bookmarklet, my toolbar is the way forward - please take a look at my blog entry here: http://streaminginternetrad...

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Frederick Townes — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:47:36 -0000

Definitely worth a try.

Re: Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

Jan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:31:17 -0000

@Jimmy
i don't even see a shade of grey here
1)the site profits more from digg with traffic than digg profits from the site. digg sends the traffic.
2)the ads they use are not connected to the site. they seem to appear when the user pushes the next button on every x times
3)they do not scrape or safe and index the content from your site. iframe often gets put in the same corner (although not seen as bad) as scraper. yet the iframe does not index your content or take any profit from it. they profit by establishing a channel to drive traffic to your site. thats almost the same when i place an chorlink to your site
4) they do not use your site to generate traffic. they have the traffic and the brand and just channel the traffic to you.

actually googles search index is much worse when you check all the points that i made.