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David Hurth over at Ajaxonomy have created a pretty cool little web application. Here are the specifics:

If you have been using the popular service Digg you know that it is very easy to submit a story and to see it start to gain traction just to be buried into the dark abyss. What I find particularly frustrating is that you don’t know how many people buried the story and the reason for the bury. If you have seen Digg Spy you have noticed that the application does show buries, but you can’t just track data for a particular story.

After much frustration Ajaxonomy is now releasing a Bury Recorder application. How the application works is you take the story’s URL (This is the URL of the page that the “more” link on the Digg upcoming/popular pages takes you or the page that clicking on the story title takes from your profile i.e. http://digg.com/[story]) and put it into the application and once you click “Watch for Buries” the application will start recording any buries that the story receives. This will allow you to see if your story had 100 diggs and 5 buries before it was permanently buried, or if it was more like 100 diggs and 300 buries. The idea is that you would submit a story and then have the recorder capture any buries from the time that you start the application watching for buries. You’ll want to note that in this Beta 1.0 release, so currently you have to leave your machine on and the application open in order to make sure that it continues to capture buries.

Definitely worth checking out, a small program full of ingenuity.I’m fast becoming a regular reader over at Ajaxonomy. I suggest any JS/AJAX programmers do the same.

Link: Get Insight Into Digg’s Bury System With Ajaxonomy’s Bury Recorder.