Socialphile Firefox Extension puts a small bar underneath your search results which shows you the popularity of that link on social networks such as Digg. It also gives you the link to digg it as well as the number of comments. Right away, you can see which search results are the most relevant and the most popular.
This is a simple web-app that suggests new Digg stories for you based on your previous interests. It uses the Digg API and a local-database for caching and comparison.
While I was checking out a batch of new blogs the other day, I came across Feeddit which is a pumped up version of the Digg RSS feed - just the ticket if you’re a heavy hardcore Digger whose days are spent digging countless stories and you break out in a cold sweat if you miss the chance to bury the latest Microsoft story.
A story I wrote for Make Use Of. Digg Alerter pops up a window on your PC desktop when your stories are dugg or commented on. But only the stories that you submitted yourself - it doesn’t count the ones that someone else submitted but you dugg later. You can even tell it to include or exclude stories you submitted but which were subsequently buried.
A post I wrote for Make Use Of. I take a look at some of the third party apps out there to make your Digg experience a better one.
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An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks because of its representations of Muhammad, taken from medieval manuscripts.
I’m all for religious tolerance and being respectful towards other people, but isn’t this a bit of an over-reaction? The pictures of Muhammad were taken from historical documents and were presented in an academic context. How are we to study and learn about Islam if we are not allowed to view the “entity” behind the religion?
All you have to do is enter the URL of the Digg story that you want to follow and the application will show any captured buries once you click the submit button. Results show Reason for Bury, Digg Count at Time of Bury, Bury Count, Time/Date of Bury, and Area of Digg. Quite useful to see why a story suddenly disappeared.
I discovered an interesting program while stumbling, which takes advantage of the Adobe AIR set-up.
DiggTop is a small desktop program which you can use to monitor Digg with certain pre-defined keywords. So if you find yourself searching Digg for the same subjects over and over again then you can enter those keywords into DiggTop and let it bring the stories to you, instead of the other way around.
It’s a nice small program which can sit in the corner of your PC screen while you surf away on other sites.
The only drawback is that if you want to digg a story or comment on a story then you need to click on the title and it will take you to the Digg site. As yet, there’s no ability to digg or comment inside DiggTop. But I’m hoping that is a future improvement possibility.
There’s one thing I know for sure - instant messaging networks have come a long way over the past few years and the uses that people have thought up for them have progressed beyond mere chatting and LOL’ing.
Here’s two :
Creating link-sharing request networks : I have been approached by people very active on places like Digg and Stumbleupon, asking me to approve them on my IM contact list, and me on theirs. Not really to chat but mainly to digg and stumble their links and they would do the same for me in return. The person with the link would just open a chat window and send the link to everyone in the list with the request “digg / stumble please”.
One guy told me he had 20-30 people in his network all digging and stumbling each other’s work. There’s been a lot of grumbling about how flawed the Digg Shout system is and so people seem to be turning instead towards IM programs to do their own informal “shouts”.
I am not sure if asking someone to digg / stumble your personal posts goes against the TOS of these sites but it’s an interesting concept nevertheless. If you have a weblink you want to instantly get out there, you can quickly ask everyone on your network to digg and stumble it for you.
For such a network to be truly effective though, you would need to have some diggers / stumblers on your list that are at least a bit influential on the sites. Kevin Rose would be a good choice on the Digg side although I seriously doubt he would agree to be on any IM network that I have just described. If you have a lot of contacts who are not so high up in the site’s hierachy then the stumbles and diggs they could do would have a limited effect.
For a list of top diggers, check out this list. For a list of top Stumblers, there are two lists in existence, one here and one here.
An unique twist on the “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” concept.
Controlling web-based services from the PC desktop
I recently posted about this on Geeks Are Sexy with a follow-up today. More and more online services are setting up IM access to their services, sometimes using Twitter as a conduit.
The top ones - Twitter, Facebook (in a kind of roundabout way using Twitter as the middleman), Google Calendar, Remember the Milk and all the major blogging platforms (including Wordpress). Just see my Geeks Are Sexy article for more details.
A lot of them are controlled through IMified which is easy to set up.
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