What is Digg?23 Comments
- deadlift, on 10/14/2007, -1/+8This article is too smart for Diggers! Go back to slashdot you intellectuals!
Yes, go ahead and bury me. - vade79, on 10/13/2007, -1/+6Summary: close open HTML tags, and learn arbitrary XML formats.
- nitehawk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5The rise of APIs? Please, just use the common term in this context: web services.
- tdous, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3Actually I'd say API is a more commonly used term is most contexts at this point.
- sfrench, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I completely agree with the question you just posed. I've tried to propose microformats and RSS feeds before and they have both been met with a "what will it do for me, I can click on email addresses and read the webpage just fine already" attitude from managerial types and non-technical customers. But I think when you start talking to someone who can think beyond their own web browser, things look a little more promising.
Mashups are an interesting case. I think many people have the attitude of "if I'm not delivering it, it has no benefit for me"... I don't believe this is the case though. When data gets mashed up, the results go from a one dimensional results "yelp says joe's tacos got 2 stars" to multidimensional "yelp says joe's tacos got 2 stars, the health inspection records show 5 violations in the last 6 months, and craigslist says they are looking for a new cook".
I think the major benefit to the data provider is this: For the internet user who is unfamilliar with a particular web site... they are being introduced to that site and it's content under the best possible circumstances.... via data which is multifaceted and relevant to what the customer is looking for. So in the situation above, lets say I've never heard of yelp... suddenly I have a really good feeling about this "yelp" thing because it saved me from a night of gastrointestinal misery. - SiNN4R, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3We support the lies.
- campingstick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I doubt this will ever happen in any sort of ubiquitous way. There is just not a big enough payoff. Sure there is a 'gee whiz, wouldn't this be cool?' facet to it, but I think it ends there. Too much information to categorize, too little incentive. We're better off writing algorithms and developing AI to create a superstructure that would sit above the web, and would create the structure automatically.
- sybarite, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This again. Keep dreaming.
- canthraxp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beautiful. Here is the "Final" version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g - purpmint008, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Kind of like how we're never going to get new and better structured governments....we're never going to get a more structured web...
- WhereAmI, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm gonna have to go with a put on the tin-foil hat joke. I mean, look at the facts. Foil will block the satellites. Plain and simple.
- bradbeattie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1On a similar theme of partitioning data and presentation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
- tybris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why do these semantics people always pick on (X)HTML? It's a language for laying out (hypertext) documents. It was never meant for anything else. It was never good at anything else. It was never used for anything else. There's nothing wrong with it. If it doesn't match the application you wish to build just don't use it.
- paulbjensen, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1I like the theme behind these articles, it's been quite popular on RWW.
- biocandy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That's more like web 4.6 to me ...
- tybris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://aws.amazon.com
- Aupajo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Well, first off they don't open up *all* their information, only information that they want available.
What they get out of it is the ability to integrate their data with other web sites/services. They can also enable integration with other sites/services to themselves. Imagine an recipe site. They have an API which allows people to make submissions via XML requests. A bakery runs a service which allows recipes to be documented in their own system. When the bakery makes a recipe on their own system, it can be extremely easy to add the functionality to automatically add that recipe on the recipe site at the same time, with no extra effort.
So the bakery gets syndication, and the recipe site gets more content. - michaelb1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It's a good time to be alive.
- LongPig, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0what is fueling the web of the future is structured information,huuum,it is important!
- PAJK, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1What incentive would companies have to fully open up their information like this? What do they get out of it, except no revenue stream whatsoever?
- jackhatedance, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0structured information are more reusable. web as a database! I like this idea.
I think Wiki and tags should be mentioned. - resplence, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I think I am beginning to understand the dupe police I fought so hard on my earlier days of digg...
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