Tag: DIGGBAR

Now that Kevin Rose has stepped up as Digg's CEO, you're going to start seeing some changes around that place. Rose's first decree is the banishment of that obnoxious iFrame around every outgoing link on Digg. Rather than pursuing the iFrame as a way to encourage voting, Digg will focus on improving its browser add-ons for IE, Firefox and Chrome. Rose has also agreed to reinstate all domains ...

Digg users recently noticed some interesting new behavior related to Digg's shortURL service, the Diggbar: instead of shortlinks going directly to their destinations, logged-out users who click them will now land on the corresponding Digg.com page. Sure, that's a lot of new traffic for Digg, but it's problematic because the change was never announced, and users who generate Digg links might not ...

After widespread complaints about Digg's new URL-shortener/toolbar, the DiggBar, Digg has responded and agreed to change the way the DiggBar behaves to address the problems people had with it. Number one on the list was the way the DiggBar framed other sites and used Digg's new URLs for everything, never revealing the URL of the actual destination site. Number 2 was the problem of DiggBar URLs ...

There have been more than a few gripes about Digg's new iFrame toolbar. They're stealing content. It interferes with SEO. They're selling ads on other people's content. If you share those gripes and would like to permanently bury the bar, there are already two userscripts available to do just that. Both DiggBar Killer and Anti Diggbar get the job done. While neither actually blocks the bar ...

Everyone knows about the power of Digg. We've seen it first hand many times here at DLS with waves of Digg faithful pouring in when a hot story hits the feed. Today, they've taken the gloves off and come out swinging at other short URL and social sharing services with the new Diggbar. Apart from making it easy to submit items to Digg, the toolbar also integrates with Facebook and Twitter and ...