The toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and this new feature has apparently only been rolled out for IE as far as we can tell. The functionality is hit and miss, as you'll see in the screenshots below.

Here, we can see Amazon.de translated, and not too badly:

However, on this French site, the language wasn't automatically detected, and the text didn't get translated at all, even though Google said it had done so:

Another reason we're not in love with the translation feature is that it doesn't automatically translate pages once you start navigating around a site. Although the Google blog states, "If you go to another page in the same language, you will continue to see translations rather than have to translate one page at a time," we did not consistently find this to be the case in our own testing. For example, we were surfing Chinese.AOL.com and had to ask Google to translate with each click through to another page on the same domain.

Another feature of the toolbar translation is real-time translation of dynamic content, which we found worked in Google Reader and FriendFeed just fine.

The translations were not perfect but were on par with other results we've seen historically from Google Translate. Overall, for users who still choose Internet Explorer and who navigate a lot of foreign language sites, this might be a good tool.

And we have a bookmarklet that makes it even better!

In addition, the new toolbar will allow users to see other stories on Digg from the same source, as well as related stories. Users will also be able to see some comments directly from the toolbar, though this is currently restricted to the latest, most controversial, and the most popular comments.

How to Get It

If you want to see the DiggBar in action, all you have to do is enter "digg.com/" in front of any URL, and the toolbar will automatically appear at the top of the page. Or, you can use our own DiggBar bookmarklet. Instructions for setting it up are at the end of this post.

More Features

The toolbar also features a prominent 'Random' button, that will, as the name implies, take you to a random page with a similar story that was popular on Digg in the last few days. This, of course, is very similar to what StumbleUpon does.

All of this, of course, will help to make Digg an even stickier site, as users will never quite leave the Digg experience behind, but at the same time, as MG Siegler points out on VentureBeat, this also shifts Digg's focus away from its own site, and turns Digg into a service.

No DiggBar Bookmarklet? No Problem - We Have One For You!

Sadly, Digg didn't provide users with a bookmarklet that would make it easy to quickly invoke the DiggBar without having to edit the URL, but our own Rick Turoczy just wrote up a bookmarklet for us - you just have to drag and drop this link to your bookmarks: digg bar.

After that, clicking on the link will invoke the DiggBar for any site you are currently visiting.

The Web is Dynamic

Dynamic pages are those that may change at any time from its initial download. This could be from either the server's knowledge of a user or the actions of a user on the website. With many of today's pages created using dynamic technologies like CSS, AJAX, and other database-driven content, valuable information you may have wanted to save can be lost forever. Another problem that Iterasi addresses is the condition of "linkrot." This occurs when a page you've bookmarked disappears from the internet forever. With Iterasi's bookmarking service, you'll never have to lose information again.

The Iterasi application itself is a web browser toolbar. When you find a page you want to save, you click the "Notarize" button and the page is immediately transferred to a secure personal account, where a copy of the web page is saved including all images, forms, transactions, receipts, confirmations, and personalized content. Since Iterasi saves an exact replica of any web page you're looking at, it's great for things like saving online receipts or quickly capturing the contents of a page deep in search or after answering a series of questions.

Your private Iterasi account is accessible from any web browser. Within your account, you can view your saved pages, organize them into folder, add descriptions, or tag them. You can also search your saved pages using a powerful search agent that even searches the pages' text. Another great tool Iterasi provides for power users is the Scheduler, which will automate page captures on a regular basis so you can track and analyze changing web pages over time.

The Iterasi team said they've decided to start with IE7, so, at first, their toolbar with be IE-only. However, Firefox and Mac support will come later on. They based their decision on the fact that IE7 is the most widely adopted browser and the hardest to tackle, too.

When Can I Use It?

"As the Web increasingly becomes a more personal experience, there is a growing need for tools like Iterasi," said Chris Shipley, executive producer, DEMO.  "By uniting saving, searching and retrieving for dynamic and static Web content, Iterasi will be one of the more useful buttons on the ever more crowded toolbar".

You can check out the demo of Iterasi for yourself here: