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A Better 'Digg This' Button

blog.yourminis.com — This is an interactive digg counter/button that gives visitors a visual view of your story being dugg in real-time. In this example, Mario hits a coin box every time your story is dugg. The widget can be customized with several other presets, or you can make your own style easily. It's a fun way to attract more diggs to your story!

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  • gavanw, on 10/24/2007, -5/+168I could see a lot more styles being developed for this...
    • DesignEx, on 10/24/2007, -7/+59Cool, but the concept can be easily abused... as I'm sure this article will be on the front page because of it.
      • dgblackout, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36that's because it's pretty much the first one like it.
      • doronster195, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12This has gotten a lot of diggs and will get even more just because people click the Digg It button to see what happens.
        • haleym, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Indeed - this could lead to situations where inferior content is getting dugg just because there's a flashy digg button attached - pretty cool in this case, but let's just hope it doesn't get abused.
    • gavanw, on 10/24/2007, -1/+108Hehe, I just noticed it plays the extra life sound every time it hits 100, 200, etc.
    • archistudent, on 10/11/2007, -16/+8The internet is being developed faster than television, which developed faster than its predecessor, the radio. At this wonderful rate, a lot of really cool things are going to happen soon. Just look at what sites like digg and del.icio.us are doing for news, and what gmail is doing for communcations, and what flickr is doing for the globalization of humanity. Interesting things lie just ahead.
      • StaticRedux, on 10/15/2007, -2/+49Today a better 'Digg This' Button, tomorrow.... THE WORLD!!!
      • resplence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19Get a blog.
        • spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Yeah please do, it'd be much easier for me to not read
    • ToadLeg, on 10/11/2007, -13/+2I can't see much because the font at that site is the same color as the background.
    • randomgeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7This is really nice. I think the jumping Mario and sound effects are a little much (cool for a proof of concept though), but I've always sort of wondered why a Digg This! button didn't have the same functionality as the button on the site itself. It doesn't make sense to be taken away from the page you're looking at just to digg it.
    • kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Another way to do this would be to use prototype.js(or another framework) and jsut make a div with the digg button, and have a Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater update it every 15 secs(or however long)
    • GooksBirman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Really?
    • Bartboy919, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Will he ever get a 1up?
  • yourminis, on 10/11/2007, -15/+8whoa! that's awesome!
    • Sanitarium, on 10/11/2007, -18/+2Would be better if it was a little Kevin Rose jumping up and down, and beers coming out of the top.
      And when it reaches 100/200/300 etc diggs, Johnny Johnny can jump out from behind the brick and shout 'SHOTS!'
      • mporcheron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19No. Digg is a user centric site, not a Kevin Rose fansite.
        • Cwo655321, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3sometimes it hard to tell the difference
    • TPrime, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I feel duped into digging this story.
  • nina17, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4very cool
  • matt9m5, on 10/11/2007, -14/+4creative but slower
    • mattprice, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10And the sound on the example is slightly annoying while trying to read the article.
    • essjay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Definitely more creative. I don't think I would call it "better" though. There's an awfull lot wrong with it (Bandwidth, copyright infringement, sound that makes you want to rip out your ear drums...) while there's very little wrong with the current digg button. This one is also more than a little reminiscent of the download screen on the wii shopping channel.
  • xuanyan, on 10/28/2007, -5/+287Wow, Mario's going crazy now that this hit the front page!
    • drafhk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11He's getting quite a work out.
      • catwh0re, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think a lot of people are going to the page, and thinking it's a replacement for the "digg this" button. Then trying to press it to make mario do something. Little do they realise they've just dugg up the article. As I seriously doubt this would gather more than 11K diggs on it's own merit.
    • aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2I refreshed this page after about 3 minutes and the diggs have gone up by almost 200.
      • KiSA, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11um, dude... that's why the thing was made: real time, no refreshes needed.
        • Aythun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0Except it doesn't show how many diggs there are total, or even how many since you loaded it.
          • Aythun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Oh, silly me had JS disabled for that site. I was entirely ignorant of the digg counter...
    • carl201167, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's a good story, but it's probably getting more Diggs than it would normally warrant with people not necessarily intending to digg the story, but just trying the button out.
      • Linkin4, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4tricked you, bitch!
      • TastyLamp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Sorta like that one where you digg the story and it reveals a part of a picture.
    • isomika69, on 01/19/2008, -0/+0I would go grazy also. Digg can send a lot of traffic.

      http://www.juegosgratis24.com/
  • phezz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1They first need to fix the :Submit a New Link - Are You Sure It's Not a Duplicate? Which doesn't show the actual digg.
  • roflcawpter, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3Awesome idea. I'm getting sick of blogs being filled with the same ugly DIGG button.
  • magicmarc, on 10/24/2007, -4/+51Loved the noise on the 100th digg.
  • UtahApocalyse, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5LMAO dugg for classic gaming
  • Brkwtzandrew, on 11/06/2007, -2/+96What happens when a story gets buried?
    • mrkmrk, on 11/06/2007, -1/+33You get that little death noise.
      • mjhstudios, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3If you run out of lives and want to continue then at the game over screen press and hold A then press start at 1 player (or 2 player) and you will start at the beginning of the world at which you died!
    • eternalinsomnia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9A turtle comes out at hits mario
    • DeathKid, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0luigi appears
      epic fail
  • rYno, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3turn your sound OFF before you go there lol
  • Vodka23, on 10/11/2007, -7/+5As long as there is no sound every time.
    • smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7yea, aside for streaming music or videos i don't like sites that make lots of noise--they shouldn't make any IMO. i keep multiple tabs open at all times, and it's annoying trying to figure out which site has a stupid flash ad or GUI that's making noises.
      • HolyChimp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You use multiple tabs at all times, but you still see flash ads? Adblock FTW :D
        • DeathKid, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0HAHAHAHAHAno
          firefox 3b5 is fast as hell and it's amazing
          2.0.0.13 gets like a 52 on speed
          3b5 gets 71
          ie7 got a frikkin 12 and safari got a 75

          k now that i'm done with that little birdwalk...lol
  • roflcawpter, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1This is a great idea. I'm getting sick of all the blogs filled with the same button
  • derning, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Fantastic idea! Keep up the great work, Hartw.
  • PureRED, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Nifty. All sorts of stuff could be done with this.
  • gbenitt, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28Did you guys hear the sound effect when it increments by 100? Looks like that gets Mario an extra life! Very cool...
  • derning, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Fantastic idea! Keep up the great work, Hartw.
  • fael, on 10/11/2007, -16/+9***** ANNOYING!!!1!1
    • fullphaser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4somewhat agreed, the noise would get to be annoying after a while.
      • Woah_G!, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You can always close the window
        • DeathKid, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0thank you mister einstein for helping the common folk solve their problems
          lol
  • mcm297, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1setInterval() ftw!
  • turleh, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3been watching this for 2 minutes now. mario has a sore head.
  • ReinMasamuri, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28The only think that I dislike about it is the use of flash.
    Otherwise it's kinda cool ^_^
    • PRlME, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5whats wrong with flash? how else would u be able to do it?
  • dh89, on 10/11/2007, -7/+20Wow, that's annoying
  • Bersy, on 10/24/2007, -4/+68'Eya Luigi, come-a help-a me, I'm-a getting a ***** headache!
    • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Mario hits the block with his fist, not his head
      • TastyLamp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You know I've never noticed that before.
      • DeathKid, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0YES
        VIDEO GAME IDIOCY IS DENIED ITS CHANCE TO PREVAIL
        THANK YOU
        haha
  • Tripacer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3lol this is awesome
  • frozensun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I hardly ever digg anything, but i did this one just to see him jump. I imagine if other like me do this, is could get many diggs.
  • Mizzike, on 10/24/2007, -3/+185if a mario jumps and hits a coin box while nobody is watching... does it make a sound?
    • TenebrousX, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4yes, it was open in another tab and made a sound
    • Adamacus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Not in Safari...
      • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+9The bugs in the forest are probably too busy making more noise to cover up the noise of Mario...
  • unrealmp3, on 10/11/2007, -10/+7Not a good idea. Browsers without flash (ie: Lynx, Nintendo DS Browser, cell-phones) won't be able to digg article easily, and this should be avoided.

    The proof-of-concept is nice though.
    • gbenitt, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1The digging part is done with JS... you won't be able to see the animation without Flash, but you'll still be able to digg.
    • g3r4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Lets not forget that this is an outside app (widget?) using the digg API and in no way official. Secondly, how many people spend time digging stories on their DS or Cell Phone? Seems like an unnecessary pain in the ass to me. (And last time I checked Lynx wasn't used as widely as Firefox, Opera, IE, and Safari)
  • kalleanka, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3If you guys have not noticed, every time Mario gets an even number of X00 coins (100, 200, 300, etc.) he gets a power up!
  • mkameli, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3I dugg it just 'cause I wanted Mario to jump...
  • Gikko, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4I could do this all day! Too bad i can't.
  • Nano17, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Mario's head is gonna start hurting
  • Mizzike, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2I wonder how many people will try to "copy this to myspace" and then enter their username and password into the app... i dont see anything about if that username/password data gets stored anywhere or just dumped after it edits your myspace account.
    • gbenitt, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0dumped... yourminis doesn't store any data for any of the services. try copying to myspace, reload the page and try copying it to myspace again - you'll be asked for your credentials the second time just like the first...
    • gavanw, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0The username and password data gets dumped like with the rest of the yourminis widgets. If it didn't, I am sure the company would have been in trouble a long time ago!
  • antiver, on 10/29/2007, -2/+18digg people DIGG!

    (pardon me, but I'm addicted)
  • thedarkrabbit, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1weak.
  • markus941, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1If by "better" you mean "a ***** more annoying", then yes.

    Retro cool but I would want to murder someone myself if people actually used this (with the sound).
  • Yareking, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3thats WONDERFULLLLLLLL
  • adcuz, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1LAME
  • ai42, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2It's a pretty novel idea. However, seriously if I were on a webpage that got dugg and I was say trying to read an article/blog with that noise going off all the time I'd be seriously turned off by it. Other than the annoying sound its good.
  • Vertex01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Pretty cool concept, thought the Mario one is a tad obnoxious...

    Though I must add, what makes something a 'visual view' as opposed to a 'view'?
    • dippyskoodlez, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11. 2.... 3.... 4..



      Thats the difference.
  • quinnmct, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1*****
  • Jotaro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Pretty clever. Even has a 1up sound when it passes a multiple of 100.
  • MatthewBlack, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32Had my speakers turned right up, almost gave me a heart attack. Cool for about 4 seconds, then ultra-annoying
  • viewdrix, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3All it needs is a mute option.

    Dear God, please, a mute option. Imagine if this was applied to the front page of Digg.
  • GhostWithToast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8very cool! a popular blog would sound like a casino though. a more subtle sound solution would make this awesome.
    • g3r4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yeah, like none.
    • Leadhyena, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well, if it's more popular, it'd probably be a porn website, so maybe a kitten's meow?
  • TritonX, on 10/23/2007, -4/+58Any sounds that comes from a website without user consent is BAD!!!!!
    • bmfiii, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5plus it about scared the ***** out of me.
  • melkia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0sweet i love it, and apparently I suck at proving that I am human I missed the test twice!!
  • ssavoy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7more myths anyone?
    "Every time you digg a story, Mario jumps for coins!"
  • Smellybeans, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0one of the cuter things on the site thus far :o
  • haloevo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1AWESOME!!
  • fernB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1when does he get the one up?
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