• Apr092009

    The DiggBar

    Posted by Gene in Social Web

    DiggDigg’s recent launch of their DiggBar service could be one of the best things they’ve done since they started.

    Primarily the DiggBar is a short url service like Bitly or tinyurl, but at the same time will submit your site to Digg.com. The “bar” itself is pretty unobtrusive and actually looks good. You simply add digg.com/ before your url and blam it makes the short url and positions your site for submission. You can also share it across several other social network sites like facebook, etc… This is all a reaction to twitter, which Kevin Rose is one of the top power tweeters there is @kevinrose. In fact most of the top guys at Digg have fairly large amounts of followers, see: @joestump & @dburka.


    DiggBar from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.

    The short URL marketing is pretty hot right now and is highly contested (bitly is reportedly worth $8 million), there are quite a few different services you can choose from but what makes Digg’s offering so nice is the Digg.com site behind it, something the other services lack. So think about it if you are choosing which short URL service to use when sharing a link on twitter which one will you pick? I’m going with the one that lets me submit or Digg the site i’m linking.

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