The Digg Bar is a strip of HTML links to "digg" or vote up, share and otherwise market websites. The tool miniaturizes websites' URLs and is universally accessible without a download. The tool is a part of the digg website made available Thursday.
The new feature doesn't require a download or an interface. Digg's trick is it uses its own domain, www.digg.com, to package sites under the Digg bar. Simply append the URL of the website to Digg's own, http://www.digg.com/www.webmonkey.com for example. The page automatically refreshes with a shorter and shareable unique URL. Webmonkey's digg bar is available at http://digg.com/d1RqQc, for instance.
From there, you can see how many people have digged the site, digg the site yourself, view comments, bookmark it, see related pages and integrates with social networks Facebook and Twitter in order to share the site with contacts.
This should aid many in sharing the site as well as marketing it. Digg can be a spotlight and deliver thousands of views if you make their front page. Packaging your site in a digg URL and sharing it could possibly extend the sites reach, if popular.
I expect its TinyURL-like packaging to be huge for Twitter, where the 240 character limit requires a small URL if you want to share one, and where Digging your shares can go pretty far in the unending search for attention.
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