What is Digg?50 Comments
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I wonder when people will finally start getting tired of the "r" replacing "er" at the end of names...
- telltherooster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You will be seeing more of it. Common domain names are getting scarce; i think they are boring as well. I don't think "dig.com" is nearly as cool as "digg.com."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8cool site and nice design
- Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5500 - Internal Server Error
- NJShadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pretty awesome
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is a godsend for people like me who don't want to hear anything about Super Paper Mario Bros 5 and anything else about next gen console wars.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3About damn time, useful stuff.
- xorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Damn awesome, this'll save me a considerably amount of time to create a feed in PHP.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And entertainment. Paris Hilton = irrelevant!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it needs to allow me to filter out by title inclusion-
i.e. amazing, hilarious, colbert - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally! Now i can block all the Apple stories that appear on the front page.
*applies filter*
Hey, ... where did the digg front page go? - yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nice idea. FYI it crashed Safari 2.0.4
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is very nice... but I wonder how long it takes until it suffers from the Digg effect?
- drunkenrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally! I don't have to read stupid crap about sports, religion or Americans!
- jezjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nice idea - as a digg newbie I am sure I will use this a lot!
- blitzkun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great idea, but please, enough with the vowel deductions...
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2digg needs a new topic:
Digg. - WayneGoode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Letting users set the number of articles in the feed would be a useful feature.
By default the digg.com feeds have 40 articles. Sometimes articles drop off the feed before I get a chance to read the feed. (I use newsgator as my reader.) Right now I get around this by subscribing to the subtopics. I can usually get a chance to read the feed before 40 articles for a sub-topic go by. However, this is a pain, particularly because articles show up in two sub-topics so I see every article twice. - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally! No more junk news about cars!
- Trak3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Awesome, and exactly what I was looking for to cut the "chaff" out of the default RSS feed! I hope this project stays afloat.
- andymitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a neat idea, but I wonder if the author is ready for the masses?
Digg has the power to crush sites it links to, and therefore by implication must have some pretty potent server/bandwidth usage.
DiggFilter is effectively a front end over Digg; and thus must expect a certain % of Digg's traffic.
It will be interesting to see how it copes with this.
From a legal standpoint, I think its fine - so long as they reference Digg as the source (a site referencing a meta-source site as a source?! my head spins...)
From a technical perspective, DiggFilter could get around this by going low-tech. All the feeds could be "pre-baked" (turned into static HTML from the database every 15 minutes or so); so the site is effectively static, massively reducing load & therefore increasing the number of hits it can handle.
It depends whether the author is in for money or for love. If its money, those bandwidth bills could quickly crush any adbased revenue.
Or, maybe the author will go the Web 2.0 route and use an API.
This could be quite interesting, and it would effectively make DiggFilter a middle layer.
A website (e.g. a Dell fanboy site, if such a thing exists...) could create a Dell-orientated feed over Digg. They could then incorporate this feed on their own website; taking the load off DiggFiltr (updating every 15 minutes or so).
It could even be used to draw an income: DiggFiltr could embed minimal text-adverts into the RSS stream that other sites show. - Numfar28, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Woohoo! Finally able to remove sports news. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
- saolsasl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great service, I also like http://www.diggview.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It crashes Safari
- WarMace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My ideal digg feed would show the top stories in the last 24 hours, not "today". Its way too oftin that i log in at 2am and see nothing, and i have to resort to this weeks top stories...
- regtools, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice. What would also be really nice, I think, would be to have a delayed feed. OK so you'd miss out on particularly time sensitive stories but on the other hand you'd also miss out on the digg effect.
- mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Neat, I can add this to my Digg section on bloglines along with my searched keywords RSS feeds. I find it amazing how some can pick up a language just like that and learn it in such a short amount of time. Now, if only it will have an edit feature.
- Toronto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it should be easy for digg to set up a service like this
where you can put more filters on your search and subscribe that way
and they could add google ads into the feed to support it - tuliplover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool feature
- agoodm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice site design. Server already slow.
- trogdor_smith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is something that needs to be offered by digg.
- Coreguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Neither newsgator Web reader or Feedburner can read the generated Feed
Where the problem at? - Icefreez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Didn't work
- svartling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This site doesn't work anymore. I've just created a feed that doesn't work.
- Youtool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I try that! Vote.. hmm
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ravers?
- Toronto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there anything else out there like this because it doesn't seem to be working for me
- krokodil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can also achieve similar results (custom filtered digg feeds) and even combine
them with some other feeds/tags at www.rssbazaar.com. - mskadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I just got a :
500 - Internal Server Error - Yorenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There will be no site overflow IMHO.
The "Digg Effect" occurs when a story reaches the top (See the "Digg Swarm" pattern ?)
This site will be a good specimen for study though, as it may break once or twice each time its story "make its way" here.
Then it'll be back online and well.
As Digg users will use it "asynchronously" ;-) - telltherooster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1back online now...
- akinbanjo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2No, long live the txt message endings to domain and site names. It's all part of the Web 2.0 movement, embrace it. I think it's great.
DiggFlitr is real cool. :) Kudos to the guy who made it, it's useful, simple and elegant. Very good stuff. - askewben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0looks clever, nice touch
- mutated, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@GateKiller
how about just 40 min after your post ;)
I am getting
500- Internal Server Error - RohanMowTheLawn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0thx for the invs
- telltherooster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Like the "OR" boolean operator?
- nataliaaa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1cool
- thebman990, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I, for one, welcome our new 'e' stealing overlords
- Jacob3d, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Thanks for the info, I'm probably going to start using this on my new domain (di66.com) :)
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