I’m a pretty active Digg user (here’s my profile) and I thought it’ll be helpful if I talked a little about the Digg tools that I use everyday. Don’t worry, I’m not going to overload you with 50+ redundant tools, most of which only look good but are quite useless.
Trust me, you really don’t need many tools when it comes to Digg. There are only a few which are truly essential. If you want to use Digg efficiently like a power user, try the ones in this list.
Don’t bother with most of the other fancy Digg applications out there. They are usually more eye-candy than beneficial.
What you want are tools that will enhance your proficiency for using Digg. Most of the very active Digg users out there will probably attest to the value of these tools all of which are made for regular and heavy daily use.
These tools are mainly for end users of Digg and not content publishers. If you enjoy the Digg community and want to participate actively, these will help.
Requirements
You should be running web browsers like Firefox or Flock because most of these tools require the Greasemonkey addon or other Firefox extensions. I do recommend using the Firefox browser so do please download it and give it a try.
Without further ado. Here are the Digg tools I use:
1. Digg Alerter
Excellent application which when installed, keeps track of the Digg stories you’ve submitted, along with their digg count and if they have gone popular or not. I usually leave the application running the whole day and click on it intermittently to see how my submissions are doing. Highly recommended.
2. Digg This Firefox Extension
This adds a right-click option to your context menu, allowing you to simply highlight a chunk of text and right click to submit the webpage you’re on. This opens up the Digg submission page in a new tab and its the fastest way to submit a story.
3. Smart Digg Firefox Extension
This shows you if the webpage you are on is already submitted to Digg and if it is already submitted, the digg count for the page. This saves you a lot of time if you’re scanning webpages for stories to submit.
4. Digg Button Animation Enabler [Greasemonkey Script]
This allows you to digg a story using the Digg badge on the site of a webpage without having to click through to the Digg story page. Useful if you just want to digg and move on or when a friend sends you a link to a page with a Digg badge.
5. Google Reader Digg News [Greasemonkey Script]
Add a digg control to every news-item in google reader. When combined with the Digg Button Animation Enabled (see above), you’ll be able to digg articles from your feed reader without clicking through to the original website. I often use this to digg stories that I like after reading them in Google Reader.
6. Digg - Add Mirrors [Greasemonkey Script]
Adds links to DuggMirror, Coral, Duggback and the Wayback machine to Digg story. This is useful because sites often go down when they hit the Digg frontpage. Helpful if you want to provide a mirror for a story you’ve submitted or a story from your site. I usually keep it turned off until I need to use it.
7. Feeddit
This is simply the feed for the Digg frontpage and it’s better than the original feed because each feed item has a direct link to the story, alongside a link to the submitter, comments and mirror. This is a great way to monitor what stories appear on the Digg frontpage daily.
8. Digg Me Later! [Greasemonkey Script]
This allows you to digg the article directly from the article page after you read it without having to return to digg. Not essential but still useful because it saves you from one extra click. Don’t use it if you’re the type that diggs first and reads later.
9. TINC - Who’s Digging You?
Allows you to find out who is digging your stories and provides links to their submissions and user profile in case you want to reciprocate.
10. Digg Comment Viewer
A great, fast-loading application which tracks the ratings of the comments you’ve left on Digg. It’s simple and easy to use. One benefit of it is that you can easily click around to not only see your friends’ comments but also what friends they have as well. It’s faster than using Digg’s interface to access your comments, especially if you comment regularly.
11. Social Blade Frontpage Data
This is an online tool which allows you to analyze frontpage stories and determine a host of factors related to the tipping point when a story goes popular. It records down the exact number of diggs when the story went popular as well as % of friends who dugg the story, along with the category and other elements.
12. Update Scanner
Not really a Digg tool but a firefox extension I use for digg and other social media sites. This firefox extension monitors web pages for updates. This is useful for websites that don’t provide Atom or RSS feeds. Sometimes it allows you to grab and submit new stories or articles before other Digg users.
I didn’t include most of the sidebar/online widgets and statistic tools because I didn’t find them useful. This list is intentionally concise because I’ve only included the ones I feel are really fundamental to efficient and active Digg usage.
I’ve also left out a few tools which I don’t want to include, simply because some of them might be more advanced and not suitable for casual/semi-active Digg users. Perhaps I’ll mention them in a future article on how I use Digg on a daily basis.
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译文:
Digger（掘客）必备的12种工具
我是一个可爱的掘客（Digg user）（我的资料），我觉得聊聊我每天使用的Digg工具可能会对你有点帮助。别担心，我不会列出50多个冗余的工具吓唬你，它们大多数只是看起来好但实际没啥用。
相信我，使用Digg并不需要很多的工具。只有少许几个工具是必备的。如果你想像超级用户那样把Digg用的非常好，试一下这里的工具。
不要理会那些富有想象力的Digg工具。他们大多是拿来看的而不是拿来用的。
你需要的是那些可以让你更熟练使用Digg的工具。很多经常大量经常使用Digg的用户会证明这些工具的价值。
这些工具主要是给Digg的终端用户使用，而不是给内容发布者使用。如果你喜欢Digg社区并愿意经常交流，这些工具会有所帮助的。
需求
你应该使用Firefox或者Flock，因为大多数工具都需要Greasemonkey 插件或者其他Firefox插件。我强烈建议你下载Firefox尝试一下。
不多说了，看一下我使用的Digg工具:
1. Digg 提醒器
一个优秀的程序，安装以后，它会一直跟踪你提交的Digg文章和Digg数，可以查看他们是否变得很流行。我经常整天挂着这个程序然后常常看看我提交的文章怎么样了。强烈推荐。
2. Digg This Firefox 扩展
这个插件会在浏览器右键菜单中添加一项，可以让你选取一段文字然后提交这个网页。它会在新的Tab页打开Digg提交页面，这是提交Digg文章最快的一种方式。
3. Smart Digg Firefox 扩展
这个工具可以显示当前页面是否已经提交到Digg，如果已经提交，则它还会告诉你现在的Digg数。在你在找可以提交的文章时，它可以节省你很多时间。
4. Digg Button Animation Enabler [Greasemonkey 脚本]
这个工具让你可以使用网页上的Digg标志来提交Digg文章，而不用转到Digg提交页面。如果你只想挖一下然后继续浏览，或者一个朋友用Digg标志发给你一篇文章时链接时会有用。
5. Google Reader Digg News [Greasemonkey 脚本]
在Google Reader的每篇新闻上添加一个Digg按钮。如果和上面的Digg工具一起使用，你就可以在你的种子订阅器（更多的叫RSS阅读器）中直接提交而不用转到原始页面。我经常在读完Google Reader后把我喜欢的文章提交Digg。
6. Digg - Add Mirrors [Greasemonkey 脚本]
在DuggMirror, Coral, Duggback和Wayback上添加到Digg文章的链接。这有用是因为当你点击Digg首页上的链接时原始网站可能已经打不开了。如果你想提供一个你提交的文章的镜像或者你自己网站上的文章时，这会有用。我只有需要时才打开这个。
7. Feeddit
这只是一个Digg首页的种子，它比原来的好的原因是每个种子它都提供一个指向原始文章的链接，还有指向提交者，评论和镜像的链接。这是一个监视Digg首页文章刷新的好工具。
8. Digg Me Later! [Greasemonkey 脚本]
这个可以让你在你阅读的页面上提交Digg，而不需要回到Digg。这个工具不是必须的但也有点用，因为它节省了一次额外点击。如果你是先Digg在阅读的人，不要用它。
9. TINC - Who’s Digging You?
可以让你知道谁现在在Digg你的文章，如果你愿意了解，它还提供指向提交者的链接和个人资料，
10. Digg Comment Viewer
一个好用，快速的工具，能让你跟踪你在Digg上发表的评论的状况。很容易使用。一个好处是它可以轻松点击一下就不仅可以看到你朋友们的评论，而且还可以了解他们现在看到的。用它查看你的评论比使用Digg的要快，尤其是你经常发表评论时。
11. Social Blade Frontpage Data
这是一个在线工具，它可以让你分析首页文章并且找出一篇文章流行时影响它流行的关键点。它可以记录下一篇文章流行时它的Digg数，和“掘出”这篇文章的网友的比例，还有分类和一些其他元素。
12. Update Scanner
这是一个Firefox扩展而不是一个Digg工具，我在浏览Digg和其他社会媒体站点时使用。它可以监视网页更新。这对于那些不提供Atom或者RSS种子的网站有用。有时候它能让你比其他Digg用户提早一步提交新的文章。
我没有添加很多侧边/在线栏插件和统计工具，因为我没发现它们有什么用。这个列表我特意精简是因为我只包含了那些我认为对活跃Digg用户很必要和有效的工具。
还有一些工具我没有列在这里，只是因为其中有些工具有点复杂而且不适合一般的Digg用户使用。也许将来我会在关于如何使用Digg处理日常事务的文章中提及。
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