The web is now as much about social media as news and information. The epitome of this impact is seen the most with the popular social bookmarking website Digg. Not only do people now adapt their websites / web design to include it, but many have structured their entire site around this phenomena.

Digg is one of the first websites to open its scripts and badges to wide usage and adaptation online. Digg has also opened one of the largest API code bases for developers and designers to use in the sites or code. In the ever-changing world of Digg.com and trends for social media, to be on top you need the best information. Many tools have come and gone for Diggers; insights and ideas once infallible may no longer exist.

To show what can be done and help get your creative juices flowing, we have listed 10 of the best examples of websites designed to be optimized for Digg and the top 10 lists from the tech side of the web to over 500 Digg code tools.

Sub Digger Plus

Enter your Digg username to browse through your Digg friends submissions. Simply clicking the Next button takes to the next of your friends’ submissions automatically. You see the story’s title, topic and the submitter from the bar. With the list view you can view all submissions with sorting and filtering.

SocialBlade

Social Blade “Your Social Web Site Tool Kit” provides: Front Page Analytics, Top Users, Social Media Community Forums and is home to the Social Blade Show.

With the detailed analysis, graphs and statistics to understand how many comments, diggs, friend diggs etc. are needed to reach the digg front page. On Twitter @SocialBlade.

FriendStatistics

FriendStatistics.com will analyze your Digg friends list and tell you which of your friends have dugg the last 10 of your digg submissions, and which of your friends have not. It will also tell you which users in the digg community other than your friends have dugg more than five of your submissions. On Twitter @FriendStatistic.

Digg Alerts

DiggAlerts notifies your friends when you’ve submitted a story that you are interested in. Whenever a friend submits a story – regardless of the category, you’ll get an alert.

Neaveru: Digg Comment Statistics

Fill in your Digg username to get statistics about your Digg commenting, script shows you you’re digg ups and digg downs live on the stories.

Digg Watcher

A flash app designed to run in the background and monitor a Digg story of your choice. It will alert you with sound upon receiving new diggs, new comments, and becoming popular.

Digg Comments Viewer

View all of your Digg comments quickly and easily.

Di66.Net

Find the top words in titles, top words in descriptions, timeline of Digg’s stats, top users stats and top front page sources. This website analyzes and displays statistics to how who and what’s popular on Digg now.

Official Digg Labs

Digg present a total of six amazing tools with Digg Labs: 365, Arc, BigSpy, Pics, Stack and Swarm views plus screensaver apps for all the real time action. On Twitter @Digg.

Check Friends

With check friends you see who dugg each submission and check if your friends or fans are digging your stories.

Bonus! Brainnovate’s BiggBoard

Biggboard runs with flash JS and RSS to give broad information from API code:  Brainnovate’s BiggBoard – The Digg Dashboard: Follow all of your upcoming Digg submissions at once on Brainnovate’s BiggBoard. Enter your Digg username and select a story to track from your upcoming list. There is no need to refresh the page, as everything happens automatically. You can track your stories as they move from left to right and hopefully to the front page.

As you can see many ways and types of code can be used to make your own Digg tool or include Digg into your design. Digg works well with flash java and html so almost any site can use include or even as in the example be build around Digg code use. For an even larger selection of Digg based ideas for designing or developing your own next big Digg thing, we have rounded up ten of the very best lists online. While many sites have copied the same lists or even made there own, these are ten of the best from the tech side of the web. Including over 500 links to code design extensions scripts software and tools all based from the Digg code core.

The Top 10 Digg Lists with Over 500 Digg Resource Links

1stWebDesigner: 30 Most Valuable Digg Tools You Should Use Daily. On Twitter @1stwebdesigner

DoshDosh: 12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users. On Twitter @DoshDosh

MakeUseOf: The top 5 Digg Tools to Make you a Better Digger. On Twitter @MakeUseOf

Mashable: Digg Toolbox: 50 New Tools and Resources. On Twitter @SeanpAune

Mashable: DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources. On Twitter @Mashable

Quick Online Tips: Amazing Digg Tools Collection. On Twitter @pchere

Skidzopedia: 190+ Digg Tools and Resources. On Twitter @Skidzopedia

Soshable: The Best Digg Tools, Reality Edition. On Twitter @0boy:@Soshable

Techipedia: 29 Super Awesome Tools Built on the Digg API. On Twitter @Tamar

Web Design Core: 12 Valuable Digg Tools to Enhance your Digg Experience. On Twitter @WebDesignCore

Many would agree to be the best, you must learn from the best and use the best tools for the job. With over 500 new Digg tools, your next frontpage awaits, see you there.

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