Amazing Digg Tools Collection
Looking for Digg tools, hacks and services for a powerful Digg experience? Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do and thereafter Digg can act as an online traffic generator for your link. Read more about the Digg Story.
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Diggnation is a podcast hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht that serves as a week-in-review of the most popular stories on the website Digg.com. Getting a link promoted on Digg can increase site traffic quickly. I am a regular visitor to Digg, and this is an attempt to combine all Digg tools in one place.
Most of these tools are now closed and we have still maintained a list here for archival purposes.
Official Digg Tools
- Digg Toolbar – Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar
- Digg Spy v2 – autorefreshing real time view of Digg now with spying all stories, front page stories and queued stories.
- Digg Q – Unpromoted digg stories. Similar to DiggSpy.
- Digg the Blog – “a means to detail all digg-related news, events, upgrades, feature additions, and much more.”
- Digg Search – advanced search for Digg stories.
- Google IG Module – View recent stories from Digg on your personalized Google homepage.
Third Party Digg Tools
- DiggSuggest – a web-app that suggests new Digg-stories for you based on your previous interests.
- Rigglations – is a Yahoo! widget that shows the relationships between members of Digg.
- Diggthis – this Drupal module adds a Digg this button to your nodes.
- Digg IRC Bot – reports newly listed front page stories into IRC.
- PHPDugg – Allows you to run a site on a similar system to digg.com
- Diggitizer – analyzes the most successful Digg titles and combines this knowledge with your keywords to create the fool-proof title to drive your entry to the very top of digg.
- Digg Anywhere – another mobile optimized digg feed.
- Diggless RSS Feed – a special feed that provides a direct link to the website, bypassing Digg.
- DiggThumbs – firefox extension adds website screenshot thumbnails to the listings on digg.com
- Jedi Digg – a toolbar docked at the top of your screen which displays the digg front page stories in rotation. You can directly digg the story from this toolbar.
- DiggThumbs – a Firefox plugin that adds website screenshot thumbnails to each and every digg listing.
- DuggMirror – automatically caches the URL of each story submitted to Digg. If a site goes down because of a server overload or for exceeding its bandwidth, you can use the Dugg link to access it.
- Diggview – offers an overview of all current popular headlines in the different categories of Digg.
- DiggGraph – AJAX application to have a “bird’s eye” look on the digg queue stories and see rapidly which stories are getting up to the front page
- Digg Dashboard Widget – gets the latest headlines from digg.com every 15 minutes and displays them in a pleasant interface. Compliant with Digg verson 3
- Digg SMS – Get the top 5 front page stories sent to your cell phone every few hours
- Digg Notifer – notifies you the moment a new story appears on the front page of Digg.com website.
- Diggaz With Attitude – DWA is a program that displays the latest Digg and Google News articles in your taskbar.
- DiggDesk – Read your favorite digg and reddit stories and watch youtube videos right on your desktop.
- Digg Search Widget – Search all of Digg’s archives.
- DiggUpdate – gives you quick access to the front page stories of Digg in your Mac OS X menu-bar.
- Digg vs Dot – highlights the act of crossposting articles among digg.com and Slashdot.org.
- PocketDigg – real time headlines from Digg formatted for mobile devices.
- Digg Search Plugin – plug-in for firefox that lets you search digg for stories.
- Upcomming.org Digg Group – a collaborative event calendar for Digg users.
- Digg Digger – useful Konfabulator widget grabs all the new stories submitted to digg area queue.
- Digg Add Mirrors – Greasemonkey script adds mirrors to Digg.
- Digg Newstracker for Winbar. Just download and rename the extention to .trk and place in newstrackers in your winbar folder.
- Digg Top Stories – Google Desktop Sidebar plugin which displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.com.
- Digg News Widget – gets news via various RSS feeds from digg.com.
- Digg at Cafepress – Tshirts, cups, bags!
- Diggnation – collection of the diggnation episodes.
- Diggnation Digging Game – for Diggnation fans looking to add more fun the podcast.
Suggest a Digg tool which deserves to be on this list…
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Great list. I’m curious as to if you could add diggmarks to the set. It would be greatly appreciated. :)
another kind of digg tool, which pulls top stories, displays them along-side other social bookmarking sites, and lets you fetch past feeds, feedmashr.com
Unblock digg at school or work.
A Greasemonkey script for providing bookmarking option to Digg links…
http://www.openjs.com/scripts/greasemonkey/bookmark_every_digg/
PHPDugg – PHP digg clone script
Looks like you forgot DiggNotify and the actual Digg IRC bot:
DiggNotify is much more polished than DiggNotifier, IMO.
Great list, my personal favorite is the DiggGraph. One can never have too many ways to digg content.
Do you realize that you have a FREE blog that is making insane cash?
Great post,great blog.
DiggUpdate now runs on Windows too.
diggth Widget – https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=blogger&hl=en-US&passive=true&continue=https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL%3Dhttp://crazyresearch.blogspot.com/2006/10/diggth-widget-101.html%26zx%3D1jqpi1iwaocrb
Formerly known as the Diggnation Widget
Diggth is a widget set up for reading various Digg.com RSS feeds.
Feature included:
– 3 Panel design (Top Pod, News Panel, Options Panel).
– Optional display of News and Options Panels.
– Options panel to allow for more dynamic feed selection (no more context menu. Preferences still used for update time selection, Username entry, and Top Pod Feed selection).
– Search
– Expandable item info.
– About.
Please add DiggThumbs to your list.
DiggThumbs, a Firefox plugin, adds website screenshot thumbnails to each and every digg listing. Know what you are clicking on before you click it. Screenshots are dynamically generated by WebShotsPro.com
There is also – another mobile optimized digg feed. Not only the front page, but every web page opened through this feed is mobile optimized. You can view comments too.
Here is my Digg Rss Application which I’ve named . Written in C#, it sits in the System Tray and will make an announcment (Ala MSN or Gmail) when there is a new story. Also it will allow you to select which feeds you want to monitor, will let you know when there are multiple new stories, alert you when you were away a new story was posted, start on bootup, and more! check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks!
http://www.pspdigg.com
Works well for psp users.
TechTray – new 16 feeds in one RSS Feed reader for tech sites – sits on your windows traybar. Download a free copy today.
Check this out:
Digg latest hot news with thumbnails.
let you read latest digg news on a simple layout. it displays HITS also.
Just made a simple Firefox toolbar extension just for digging. I found the other tools too bloated.
Digg Search Widget v2.00 has just been released and has a brand new digg v3 themes, digg v3 support, and tons of new features.
Link:
https://skatter.com/2006/07/digg-search-widget-v200/
Also for Firefox, IE, Safari, and Opera browser users here is a universal bookmarklet which will help submit stories to digg with one single click!
Link: https://skatter.com/2006/06/digg-this-bookmarklet/
Digg formatted for PSP (works).
DocTray – an RSS feed reader for the windows tray. Built-in feeds for Digg, Slashdot and CNET news – customize with 12 additional feeds of your own. FREE!
DocTray is a free RSS reader for your windows tray. It grabs feeds from the latest tech and medical journals: Digg, Slashdot, CNET and CNN as well JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. Newer versions include an option to add 4 custom RSS feeds and to bookmark links in a favorites menu.
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I already have an entry on your list for digg submit bookmarklet. I have recently updated it. The new link is http://www.leehord.com/2006/04/18/digg-submit-bookmarklet-v2/
Have a look at these modified Digg feeds for direct access to the Digged pages:
is a marquee tool people can put on their websites.
examples: and http://rexund.blogspot.com
it is also mirrored here:
Diggnation RSS reader has moved to http://www.diggreader.com
FeedFlare that shows your Digg counts for your blog in your RSS feed with a link to the already dugg story or a link to submit it to digg if it hasn’t yet been dugg.
http://ipbs.blogspot.com/2006/03/add-digg-counts-to-your-rss-feed-and.html
oops.
RSSDIGG. Might be good addition for your list!
Here is a theme I made for DIGGDESK. It’s modeled after the Royale theme for Microsoft’s Windows Media Center Edition.
Screenshot:
please link the new Digg Search Widget to the creator’s webpage which has a lot more information than the gallery.
http://www.skattertech.com/2006/03/digg-search-widget/
Here is a Digg tool I found. It displays the latest Digg and Google News articles in your taskbar.
https://www.domainmarket.com/buynow/tekdev.com
Digg This – WordPress Plugin
Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.
When a digg is first recognized an email is sent to the sites admin
Checkout the mashup of Digg and del.icio.us. digglicious.com
DiggUpdate for OS X
Access front page stories ofdigg.com in your menu-bar
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28766
Great list, my personal favorite is the Digg RSS Widget. One can never have too many ways to digg content.
Also, DiggUpdate. Link: http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=DiggUpdate
Another one to add to the list (or .net). An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication.
MAN, you don’t do anything half way. Do you realize that you have a FREE blog that is making insane cash?
Great post, great blog.
I made a new Firefox digg bookmarklet. Unlike the old one made by Weston Campbell, with this one you don’t have to type the url of the story in.
Digg Sidebar updated with new Address. Looks better!
I Have done a new version of the Diggnation Widget, set up to replace the previous diggnation widgets. Please added in the Diggnation Widget Version 2.0 at or http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=37240 Please note that unlike previous diggnation widgets, this allows you to do searches of Digg.com from the widget, because I worked so god damn hard on that feature.
digg.com toolbar for IE, Firefox and Flock available at http://www.gotoolbars.com.
Digg Vs. Slashdot
Traffic generator..?
Interesting to learn, thanks
Here is Firefox sidebar I made for digg. USE THE LINK (don’t save) because it’s still in “beta” and I am working on many more features that will be added soon.
Remember! Set the link to ONLY open in Firefox’s sidebar.
Webpedia is the toolbar for perfect web explorer: give access to 5 rss feed: del.icio.us popular, digg front page news, furl most popular, hot spurls and webpedia blog. From the searchbox you can use several search engines: delicious, digg, furl, spurl, feedster, bloglines, google blogsearch, technorati, trovando (with over 3300 engines) and others.. Find new interesting software, website, blog, tools, music, news, games, video…. or suggest it to webpedia.blogspot.com blog.
Don’t forget the DiggNation t-shirts…
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=476
http://forum.winbar.nl/trackers.php?action=search&find=digg+2.0
Digg newstracker for winbar
There is also http://www.PocketDigg.com for Mobile users. It is formatted for PSPs, PocketPCs and Blackberry’s.