Digg Beyond Digg With New Chrome And Firefox Extensions
Both extensions now not only show you a Digg count when you’re browsing a story that has been submitted to the service, but, when authorized, they allow you to digg that story right from the overlay drop-down the extension creates when clicked on in the toolbar. Both are fast and simple — especially the Chrome one.
And you can also easily share the content you are browsing on Twitter or Facebook with a click in this drop-down. The link shared is a Digg-shortened URL that includes the DiggBar if you’re signed in and using it. You can also email any story with one click or submit it to Digg if the story hasn’t already been.
The Firefox extension continues to offer a bit more functionality, including the ability to see what your friends on the service are digging. But they’ve made the resulting pop-ups less intrusive. And they’ve also made the extension toolbar itself shorter.
It’s good to see Digg actively promoting this use of the service outside of its main domain even though that won’t help bolster its stagnating traffic. But as we’ve seen with Twitter, even though a website may have stagnating traffic, use of the service through its APIs can still be on the up and up, which is important. And that’s what this new Digg API is all about.
Find the Firefox extension here and the Chrome one here.