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Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

paul — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:59:07 -0000

I've been dabbling with the Digg API and it's pretty good.

So far I've built...

http://www.duggornot.com

...which allows users to check how their Digg story submissions are doing.

And...

http://www.duggornot.com/co...

... to see how their comments are doing.

They're still in early development but I've learnt a lot about the Digg API in the mean time.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

1389 — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:37:13 -0000

That's why I don't spend much time on Digg any more, not even as a lurker. But, OTOH, I am still a bit concerned about the bad effect that sites such as Digg and Daily Kos are having on society as a whole...lowering the tone of political speech to the level of xxx-rated name-calling, ad-hominem attacks, anti-Semitic rants reminiscent of Julius Streicher, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, veiled and not-so-veiled threats, you name it.

You saw some of it here when the ad-hominem-attackers came out of the woodwork as soon as I made that comment above.

Their purpose--and it is a shameful one--is to silence anyone who might attempt to question their preferred world view, especially leftist downplaying of, or outright support of, jihadism. Among other things, they aim to silence anybody who might alert any of the world's non-jihadists to the very real dangers of jihadism.

What they forget is that, if their "friends" the jihadists actually were to attain power and to implement shari'a law, they'd be the first to go.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mange — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:40:25 -0000

That's okay. No problem. ;-)
I thought your comment was pretty "out of place". That explains it...

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

alex — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:43:19 -0000

seriously, dude, i didnt mean to post that for you...im sorry

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

alex — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:41:00 -0000

dude, has anyone ever heard of â€œif you dont like it, dont read/watch/listen (to) it? who are these people, and since when do we have so many homosexuals in this country?lol, U SUCK

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

alex — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:38:02 -0000

yeah, my bad dude, my comment was for 1389, but for some reason they posted it way down here
but seriously, doesn't that guy need to wipe the sand out of his pussy?

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mange — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:24:13 -0000

Actually, it was more derived from the "log" as in "progress log". Blogs was primarly used by developers to write about their progress during different development stages, and of course to present new features and give friendly tips to the rest of the development FOSS community.
It's sad people don't know about this, but then again, it's not strange. Most people don't even know what programmers even do, so why would they know anything about how they work? :-)

I'm not trying to sound elitist here. Don't think that. I'm just saying, there is the origin of blogs, and now blogs are everywhere doing bad things. Many programmers have even stopped calling it "blogs" altogether just to be separated from that crowd. Developers tend to expands the name nowadays (with our without space).

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mange — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:18:46 -0000

Yeah, I think the first sentence in your comment summarized my post quite well, however, I don't see the point in bashing homosexuals. To be honest, the bash, the "lol" and the use of a single letter to spell a word with three letters just prove you are part of a group of people called "imbeciles".
Don't you agree that comment was a bit unneccessary?

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mange — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:13:28 -0000

Actually, I've only spent like 5 minutes on Digg. I'm not some kind of self-hating hypocrite. ;-)
And why yes, I am happier there in my own "corner". I don't need other people to point me in what direction to "surf to".

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

alex — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:39:45 -0000

dude, has anyone ever heard of "if you dont like it, dont read/watch/listen (to) it? who are these people, and since when do we have so many homosexuals in this country?lol, U SUCK

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Chad — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:44:46 -0000

I added another feature to DiggReSS: it will now (optionally) embed video from YouTube, Google Video, and MetaCafe in the feed.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Motorcycle Guy — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:34:28 -0000

that diggest is probably the most creative idea, but also the most retarded.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

dw — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:10:30 -0000

Cool! I'm installing the firefox plugin now. Thanks for the heads up. :)

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

wraptinweb — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:10:59 -0000

Dear eBusiness - Commentators like Om Malik use Digg, but find their best stories on pages 2 or 3 of the most popular in last 24 hours. I've found it surprising how many "worthwhile" stories are discovered and elevated to that level. As in many things in life - it often pays to look beneath the surface.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

1laradream — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:11:10 -0000

The Digg API looks like a step forward for Digg, a handful of useful applications and ideas.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

dogsteins — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:41:32 -0000

Funny how all you Einsteins who digg-bash are spending all your time over at digg, digging and bashing. If you think this is so messed up, why don't you just stay in your own little corner of the internet?

Do you ever ask yourselves what draws you to digg? Repeatedly?

I should think if your side is the smartest 10%, you'd be much happier there, no?

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Rob X — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:23:17 -0000

"No doubt thatâ€™s why Diggâ€™s front page looks more like MoveOn.org or Daily Kos or al Jazeera every day."

Sounds like you're one of the LGF'ers so far right of everyone else, that you complain when reality isn't reflecting your bizarre world view. At a certain point we call that insanity.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mark Nutter — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:09:58 -0000

Woops.. looks like Digg Commentspy is the first one on your list. Woops.. oh well, his new app is awesome too.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mark Nutter — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:09:04 -0000

Just a quick thought, isn't blog a pseudonym for "Web Log" as in logbook/diary? So people writing down their thoughts would techically be exactly what blogging is all about.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mark Nutter — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:06:53 -0000

I also recommend checking out two apps made by this guy Alex Bosworth:

Digg Commentspy

and

Who's Digging You?

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mark Nutter — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:06:20 -0000

Here's an app I put together last week. It's a histogram style viewer for digg stories, with the x-axis being number of digs and the y-axis being time:

Diggraphy

Let me know what you think.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Chris — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:41:14 -0000

I am just a beginner, hopefully guys can build an API and we can use it like a Firefox Extension :)

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:22:12 -0000

I present to you the Mashable API:

http://feeds.feedburner.com...

Mix it up, republish the headlines with attribution or linkback, or use it in your news aggregator. Awesome!

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

RS — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:16:53 -0000

Someow this ends up in my diaries of things which are fukkdup.

Re: 7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Mange — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:49:04 -0000

Here's a tips for all the Digg-haters (like me):
Just ignore it. Digg should be treated like all the other sites with a huge mass of online people (MySpace, Youtube, etc.). It's a known formula: 10% of the population is smart and reasonable and the rest usually miss these qualities. As soon as a bucnh of people get together on the web, all we get is some gray unintelligent mass of stupidness.

If you want the smart moderation, good stories, etc. move to a smaller site, preferably not something that like to call itself "social network".

I do the same thing as all intelligent internet users (a.k.a. "geeks"): Ignore Digg. Ignore MySpace.

I am hoping, like all other nerds, that this raping of the word "blog" will end soon, too. People tend to think "blog" as of some type of "diary on the internet", and that's why we have this huge stream of new "bloggers blogging in the blogosphere posting podcasts and watching videopodcasts" and all that nonsense. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone here remember what a real blog is. A blog should be entierly objective and never contain the word "I" or "me". When this dies out like the website craze of '94 (when every pet and baby should have their own website with three pictures on it), Digg will propably die out too. And so is MySpace perhaps.

To summarize:
Just ignore it and let the people who enjoy Digg do. They'll get bored soon.

I'm just ranting, not trying to offend anybody. :-)
You don't have to agree with me, and don't care if you do or do not agree. This is my humble opinions and I'm gonna stick to them.

Have a nice day!

PS. I really hope no one else has ever used "The Digg Effect" to decribe the Slashdot Effect. The Slashdot Effect is the "real" name and it have been here for several years.