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Diggwatcher - digg notifications

DiggwatcherSo you've submitted a page to digg, and are frantically waiting to see if your opinion is deemed worthy by the teeming swarm of digg users. What do you do? Well, you could frantically refresh the dig page you submitted, hoping to notice it changing over time, or you could outsource this work to the Diggwatcher.

Created by Gary Carstensen using the recently released digg API, Diggwatcher allows you to enter a digg story URL to be monitored. The web application will then play sounds whenever the story is dugg, commented on, or is deemed popular. The sound files used are configurable, but the defaults are fun - a guitar chord for a digg, a bell-like alert for comments, and an air horn and rabid cheering for achieving popular status.

Filed under: Browser Tips, Social Software

Smart Digg Button for Firefox

Smart Digg ButtonSee that little number in the bottom right-hand corner of this screenshot? Yep, that number tells you how many votes a recent DownloadSquad story got on Digg.

Smart Digg Button is a new Firefox extension using the recently released Digg API.

Once you install the extension, a little box shows up at the bottom of your browser window. If you're viewing a page that has not already been submitted to Digg, you'll have the option of submitting it yourself. If you visit a site that's already been dugg, you can see at a glance how many votes the page has received.

Other social bookmarking sites including Furl, Reddit, and StumbleUpon have their own Firefox add-ons that serve a similar role. But now you can have the complete set.

[via lifehacker]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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