What is Digg?56 Comments
- sbwms, on 01/29/2008, -1/+30For more details and links to the open standards mentioned, see http://www.sbw.org/diggdpp/
- anaesthetica, on 01/29/2008, -2/+28Firefox 3 is going to include support for a number of these microformats. I think this is a really good move on Digg's part.
- atb112, on 01/29/2008, -1/+23We'll be adding more open standards in coming months:
OpenID will let you log in without having to remember a separate password (or, worse, using the same password everywhere).
APML will distill your recent Digging to a concise "attention profile," so other sites can make recommendations and filter information according to your interests.
OAuth will let you authorize sites and applications to see your private Digg activity and even submit and Digg on your behalf.
XFN will help you syncronize your friends lists across all of the sites you use. - JonRohan, on 01/29/2008, -2/+15This is awesome news! Here's the Google group if anyone wants to get more involved in this. http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-pub ...
- Goblinkiller, on 01/29/2008, -0/+11The latest news about that is that the UI-support for microformats didn't make the deadline for Firefox 3 and has been delayed for Firefox 4 and only the javascript-tools for the microformats will ship with Firefox 3.
- makenshi, on 01/29/2008, -1/+9Digg was supposed to be supporting OpenID last year. Whatever happened to that?
- dougbarrett, on 01/29/2008, -0/+8If we own our data then how come there is no place to delete our accounts, enabling us to delete what information we have on this website?
- jbond, on 01/29/2008, -0/+8Please be an OpenID consumer as well as/instead of an OpenId Provider. We've got enough providers for the moment. But otherwise, excellent. Go for it.
- tonaros, on 01/29/2008, -2/+9Cool. Beats Facebook's method.
- koick, on 01/29/2008, -0/+7"Because you own your data. It’s that simple. From the start, Digg has supported the idea that you own your own data."
So, if your account gets banned, do you still get access to all your comments and stories you dugg? Just asking because I always wondered that. - inactive, on 01/29/2008, -1/+8Go Digg!
- MindTrigger, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6This being the case, shouldn't we be able to choose NOT to collect data, and just use the service? Shouldn't we be allowed to destroy our data at will?
- sbwms, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6The principle of DataPortability is that you can decide where and how your data is used. Nothing requires you to correlate your pseudonymous accounts. It's up to you to decide when that would be a benefit to you. If not, your pseudonyms remain independent. That's as it should be.
Hope I didn't misunderstand your concern. - makenshi, on 01/29/2008, -0/+6Seconded! If every site is a provider and not a consumer, it completely misses the point of OpenID.
- Audacitor, on 01/30/2008, -0/+4Digg is in good hands right now. This is why it would suck if they sold.
- sbwms, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4Yes, our current thinking is to be an OpenID consumer first, as there are
millions of OpenIDs out there from providers large and small. - sbwms, on 01/29/2008, -0/+4We generate the MicroID from your Digg user profile URL (e.g. http://digg.com/users/Otto ) and the email we have on file for you. I was able to verify my Digg user profile on ClaimID (see http://claimid.com/sbw ), so I know it's working to some degree. We can walk through the calculations together, if you like.
- sockpuppets, on 01/29/2008, -1/+5Just start spamming some viagra websites, you'll disappear soon enough.
- sockpuppets, on 01/29/2008, -1/+5Everything I've said here mated with all my other "anonymous" data. What could possibly go wrong with that?
I need a puppet sized aluminum foil hat, please. - Yodacola, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3Regardless of cheating or not, it is still a whole lot better than a dedicated digg news column.
- Matt2k, on 01/30/2008, -0/+3You can't. You may "own" it in the happy feel good sort of way that looks cool to post on your blog, but they control it entirely aside from a two minute edit window.
- Matt2k, on 01/29/2008, -2/+4God. Just what I wanted. I can't wait until I can sync my digg comment history to my facebook blog. And people can look at my MicroID and compare it to my photostream. Jesus. That's ***** amazing. Wow. I mean seriously. How do they keep coming up with this stuff.
- krystalo, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Needs_a_Non_News_Se ...
- tslack, on 02/03/2008, -0/+2It's very important to not append the "www" to the digg profile url as this will result in a different hash. I finally figured that out and was able to get the page verified. (Just in case anybody else was running into that problem.)
- MrViklund, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2Was wondering the same thing. It seems like every post in the Digg blog gets digged up to the surface just because it's a Digg blog post.
- acidandspatter, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2How?
- s6t9eve, on 01/29/2008, -1/+3You own your data... until i download it from thepiratebay
- lukas88, on 01/30/2008, -0/+2I hate to be "that guy" but a lot of this sounds like tailored advertising ala something like google adsense. Sort of along the lines of "if you like ____ then you may also like ____" kind of deal. Or "your friend just did _____ on this site, go check it out!"
The only way I can see this being a good thing is if none of the sites get paid to make certain recommendations or really if no money changes hands at any point during the whole thing. As long as it is not part of a business model then I can see it being genuinely useful. - Otto, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Ohhh... I thought you were using the user's own homepage URL, not the profile URL. No wonder I couldn't get it to match.
Never mind. :) - hybridwave, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1hey steve - if you generate the microID based on the profile page, then what does claimID read from our user profile page to verify? i don't see any meta tag for 'microid'. what about other sites besides claimID? what meta info do they read?
- IanCube, on 01/29/2008, -1/+2Would be nice if Digg adopted a comment platform that has the benefit of integrating with other sites Digger's frequently comment at.
IntenseDebate ( http://www.intensedebate.com )
Disqus ( http://www.disqus.com/ ) - andr3, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Amen. And hooray for the comment above. :)
- alexbu, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1http://digg.com/tech_news/Data_Portability_and_Wha ...
- Born4Surf, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Digg is now important for big websites with competitive keywords, for example Confused.com with 'car insurance' are using an SEO company http://www.neutralize.com to do this for them. I presume this will involve Digg in some way but the new Digg changes will make it difficult to achieve what they want..and that isn't a bad thing!
Read this: http://digg.com/tech_news/Confused_com_wake_up_to_ ... - MrViklund, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1True.
- joestump, on 01/31/2008, -0/+1Sure, but it means the world to those 0.1% of us that care about open standards.
- inactive, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1"Digg has supported the idea that you own your own data."
Now, if only diggers could understand that musicians own their own music.. - Topher06, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1Yeah, its gets tiresome having to enter the same data over and over again so some kind of standard system would be nice. But what data does Digg have that I care about. My nick name? The IP I comment from? I can't see how Digg really cares about this except to jump on the bandwagon of what sounds like the next big thing to talk about on the Internet, and the buzzword today is "DataPortability". Like Net Neutrality, LOLCATZ, or AMAZING HDR PHOTO, expect the front page of Digg to be peppered with this buzzword for the next few months.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+1It's OK guys, you won't get Rick Roll'd.
- ronin691, on 01/29/2008, -3/+3Hells yeah. Sign up fatigue, I has it. Speaking of which, here is DPG's "Hollywood movie": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ3DndUFHEI
- jonerikandersen, on 01/30/2008, -0/+0You own your own Diggs...
- xpose, on 01/29/2008, -6/+6This means nothing to about 99.9% of the people here. Boo Hiss
- MrViklund, on 01/30/2008, -1/+1Totally useless...
And OpenID is also totally overblown. I think OpenID is a bad thing on my part. It's bad security. - R0BoT, on 02/05/2008, -0/+0i do not know alot about it, or how its all going to work. but i like it!
- Otto, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1I noticed that he said that they added microid to the user profiles page, but it seems to be broken. I've tried every combination I can think of, and I can't see how they're deriving the microid in the header of the user profile page. They're certainly not using the same code as it describes on http://microid.org/ .
- sputnike, on 01/29/2008, -2/+1Should be cool to see how this progresses.
- Dolomite, on 01/29/2008, -2/+1Bravo Kevin! Good to hear you are doing this.
- netsharc, on 01/30/2008, -2/+1The bandwagon, let me jump into it...
- nirav72, on 01/30/2008, -3/+2Great..so my info is for sale now?
- actorboy, on 01/29/2008, -4/+2But wait, I thought information wanted to be free.
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