Web Service Directory: Digg.com

http://www.digg.com

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by thousands of its users.

You won’t find editors at Digg, instead it provides a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online. Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by Digg community. Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.

Because Digg is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. Digg exists to promote that conversation and provide tools for internet community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about. By looking at information through the lens of the collective community on Digg, you’ll always find something interesting and unique. Digg is committed in giving every piece of content on the web an equal shot at being the next big thing.

Official Digg Tools

Digg Buttons & Badges
Get Digg buttons and badges for your site. See below to view available buttons/badges. Digg subscription URL is http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=_PAGE_URL_&title=_PAGE_TITLE_
Change "_PAGE_URL_" with URL of your web and "_PAGE_TITLE_" with title of the page.

Show Digg News on Your Site
You can easily display the latest Digg news on your site by adding a Digg Widget, now with more choices for what to show and how it's displayed. When news is updated on Digg, it will automatically be displayed on your site, in the format that you choose. You can choose between available templates and fine-tune selections by following provided wizard.

Integrate Digging in Your Site
Allow your site's visitors to digg your stories from your website, and submit your stories to Digg. Encourage users to submit new content from your site to Digg. It's smart and capable to distinguish between new and existing content and automatically display proper interface (either Subscribing or Digging interface). It also display the real-time Digg count for content already on Digg, with support for News, Video, or Podcast content.
The most simple usage of this tool is by linking a javascript (<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>) from Digg server. For detailed instruction and customization, just visit the Digg integration page.

iGoogle Module
View recent stories from Digg on your personalized Google homepage.
Add this Google Gadgets from here.

Google Coop Module
See Digg articles at the top of your Google search results.
This Subscribed Links offer a way for you to add information from Digg to your Google search results. When you search using queries that match Digg Subscribed Link, information from Digg will appear in your search results. You have to subscribe Digg links profile with Google to enable this feature. Note that you have to signed in with your Google Account and perform search from google.com comain (other domain such google.co.uk are not associated with subscribed links. Click on the 'google.com' link from other domain's main page).

Enable Thumbnails
Enable submissions from your site to display thumbnails on Digg.
When your visitors submit pages from your web site to Digg, an association thumbnail will be fetched. If the thumbnail could not retrieved (for whatever reason it might be), Digg will just display your item on Digg without the thumbnail. Thumbnails are fetched during submission of the URL to Digg, so they should appear immediately on the site. Digg have implemented Facebook’s “share” standard for enabling thumbnails, which means that if you correctly implement the specified standard, your thumbnails should appear on both sites when submitting video, news, and image stories.

To ensure that your thumbnail is properly displayed, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news article, video, or image could have the following:

<meta name="title" content="Directory of Web Services">
<meta name="description" content="Exploit web to it's fullest extent... discover current available free web services from this web service directory">
<meta rel="image_src" href="http://freeforbiz.googlepages.com/thumb.jpg">

As shown, title contains the story title, description contains the story description and image_src contains the thumbnail image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. For consistency's sake, please use the tag to provide text data for the preview, and the tag for any source urls. The title and summary tags are the minimum requirements for any preview, so make sure to include these two.

List of available link buttons