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Don’t use Digg as a URL shortner

There is no shortage of URL shortners, but Digg.com URL shortening service provided one of the easiest ways to create short URLs. When the diggbar launched Digg was accused of framing other sites, and this was later changed so that non logged in users will go directly to the source while logged in ... Read More →

Digg is making changes to Diggbar

Diggbar, the recently launched framebar and URL shortner got alot of criticism for the way it frames the content and redirects the URLs. Digg has listened to the feedback and now offers changes to the Diggbar. ... Read More →

How to block the Diggbar

The Diggbar, which launched recently by Digg is one of the hot debates in the blogosphere. Some feel it is evil and think that it increases digg experience for digg users. In publisher point of view it is evil in its current form and sites like engadget are blocking it. One of the main concerns is ... Read More →

Diggbar is live with shorturl service

Digg.com has just launched a virtual toolbar called the DiggBar that lets users submit stories to digg, shorten the URLs. Using the diggbar users can digg directly on the site itself, the URL can be shared on other sites like Twitter, Facebook and email to friends. (test link to try) ... Read More →

Traffic Trends for Social News Sites

Royal Pingdom published a new report on traffic trends for social news sites. The study reminds us there are some fast growing social news sites other than Digg to consider for promoting your posts. The sites included in this study are Digg, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, ... Read More →

Digg Firefox 3 Extension with Live Notifications

Digg released an official Firefox 3 extension that adds a digg toolbar to the Firefox browser, the tool will let you know if the page you are visiting is already submitted to digg, if it is submitted it will show digg count and the comment count. If the page is not submitted you will see a submit ... Read More →

Yahoo Buzz Will Open to Small Publishers Soon?

Yahoo Buzz launched in February in beta with some high profile sites and later expanded to some other sites. But it never allowed small publishers in to the program. I myself applied to the program when it was launched, but never heard back from them. Today after more than 4 months since i applied i ... Read More →

Mixx Communities

Mixx today expanded its groups feature to more customized niche communities. With this new feature any one can create a community of their niche topic. The communities will reside on subdomains at mixx, limited customization can be done by changing the header, colors and logo. This feature is ... Read More →