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DiggBar Digs up Bitter Nostalgia Among Critics
Posted: April 6th, 2009, 12:00am EDT by Brian X Chenn
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The new Diggbar — a toolbar appearing at the top of a browser when users click a link at Digg — has some internet purists grumbling about what they see as a suffocating eyesore. "When you call it 'framing someone else's site,' everyone agrees it's bullshit," said John Gruber, writer of DaringFireball, on his Twitter. "When you call it 'The DiggBar,' it's Web 3.5 Awesome."