PLEASE NOTE: This tutorial only skims the surface of what Tappity.com can do. Most people use it as a way to find price comparison, movie times, sports scores, or whatever it is they’re trying to locate on the web, using their mobile phone. The tutorial below is just a hack to allow Digg users to see their stats. If you’re not THAT into seeing Digg stats, I suggest signing up and using Tappity for its intended purpose. It’s a great tool for anyone using a web-enabled phone.

How many times have you submitted a story, then gone out to lunch, only to ask yourself, “I wonder how many people have Dugg my stuff?”

Okay, for the general public, the answer is probably “Never”, but for some of us checking Diggs is a part of our daily routine (it’s alright to admit it….you’re amongst friends) . And now, in a few easy steps, you can squelch out the last computer-free moments of your life to monitor your Digg submissions from a mobile phone. There aren’t any grandiose requirements…any web-enabled phone will do.

1. If you’re not already a member, sign up for a free Tappity account.

   For those who aren’t already familiar with Tappity, it’s a customizable mobile homepage and search engine, like Google Mobile, Yahoo Go 2.0, or Netvibes2Go, except with Tappity, users can submit and rate the mobile sites themselves. That’ll come into play in a second.

2. Once logged in to Tappity, click on the “submit new site” button, located in the header bar near “find more sites”.
3. Digg provides an RSS feed of your submitted stories (as well as ones you’ve dugg, commented on, etc.), at the top of each of your profile pages, by the icon. Obtain your “submitted” feed by right-clicking on the icon and copying the link location, or, if you don’t feel like heading back to Digg right now, you can just modify this example URL, and replace “[your username]” with your Digg username:

   http://digg.com/rss/[your username]/index1.xml

4. Submit your feed to Tappity as a Link. Click Continue.
5. On the following page, you’ll be asked to enter things like a Title, Description and Tags. Frankly you can put whatever you like in there — no one will see these, other than you. What IS important, and I cannot stress this enough: Make sure that you are submitting this as a Private Link and that Mobified is set to “Yes”.

   What the heck am I doing? You are submitting your RSS feed as a private link, so that no other users can add this to their homepage. And “mobifying” a link means that you’re passing it through Tappity’s mobile transcoder, so it turns your RSS feed into a mobile-friendly web page.

6. Preview your page before submitting. If all goes well, you should see your submitted stories, along with the number of Diggs and Comments. Note: It may take a few seconds for the Preview to Generate. This isn’t due to a problem with the preview window, it’s because Digg’s site is sometimes slow to dynamically create the RSS feed.
7. Once you are sure that the Preview is working, and you’ve double checked that it is a Private, Mobified link, go ahead and submit it. The link will be automatically added to your Tappity homepage.
8. Now, go to mobile.tappity.com on your phone’s browser. If this is the first time you’re visiting Tappity, you’ll have to enter your username and password to access your personalized homepage. Once there, scroll down to your Links section and voila!, your Digg Stats Link will be present, available for clickin’.

That’s about it. Enjoy your mobile Digg stats, and be careful to lookup while crossing the street.