What is Digg?45 Comments
- dusingaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4is there a mobile digg?
- racerxyz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This has been around a few years. I used it back in the early days of Blackberry browsing (Back in 2000-2001.). Here's similar link for searching: http://www.google.com/pda
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is pretty cool, but the URL is too long.
it should be like... "shrink.google.com"
or something. - SoulJahBN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"the xhtml/css/js/ajax disciples are the worst offenders because of all the crap they force you to download before you get to the actual content."
Clearly, you are talking out of your ass. With CSS and the proper media type handler, we can just switch off portions of the website that we don't want to show up on a handheld. Thus eliminating the need to download extraneous stuff. I have a website that totals up to 1mb download, but on a mobile, the total download is like 70kb. Turned off all images, menu navigation, etc. - CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol yeah, you must be joking, because that's hilarious. the majority of websites are completely not ready for mobile, they look like crap and have way too much stuff. the xhtml/css/js/ajax disciples are the worst offenders because of all the crap they force you to download before you get to the actual content.
- RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Has anyone written a java app (that you can load on your phone) that browses the web directly?"
Opera mini...
http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/ - Maagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Nope there is no digg mobile who ever asked that"
What happened to www.pocketdigg.com ? I used to use that... - kagayaki1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also want Mobile Digg.
- szym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@spydust
"what Google is doing is taking content off of other sites and re-distributing it on THEIR site."
Is this really redistributing? I know this sounds hand-wavy, but what Google does is not technically different from what non-transparent proxies do. Such a proxy is just an application-layer router. And I am sure no one would blame routers for redistribution. - reisyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope there is no digg mobile who ever asked that, i sure want it though i do loads of work on my PDA, and pocket IE sucks monkey dick. And PocketFF also does it wont scale things down to a mobile function and its to slow. Opera Mini doesnt work on Windows 2003 SE/XDA 2i (or it didnt last time i checked) so yeh, go google :-P Maybe Pocket IE can suck ass abit less now.
- nightfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great.. somehow, it is like an optimization for web clipping applications.. just pure text mode too..
- mrblister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has anyone configured Opera Mini on a Razr V3 / Cingular?
I've been using google on it for awhile, works great. Even set up a Google personalized page specifically for mobile (mobile.[regularGmailAddy]@gmail.com]
The I have a fully customized page of content that I view exclusively from my V3... Sweet. - msgmsg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you can use this at home or at work to get past the filters
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pretty impressive(with digg entered)
- aptiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Replyto: "this is pretty cool, but the URL is too long.
it should be like... "shrink.google.com"
or something."
google.com/gwt/n : 16 letters
shrink.google.com : 17 letters - maverick3x6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Clearly, you are talking out of your ass. With CSS and the proper media type handler, we can just switch off portions of the website that we don't want to show up on a handheld. Thus eliminating the need to download extraneous stuff. I have a website that totals up to 1mb download, but on a mobile, the total download is like 70kb. Turned off all images, menu navigation, etc."
You're the man. - jessecrouch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pft. make any site mobile with Opera! the opera browser on phones has been capable of such feats for years and you can do it with the current non-mobile-device version too ;)
- camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Palm's web browser does that automatically, but I could understand this being useful for phones.
I would like a mobile digg though. - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Opera Mini user here. Love it.
- Azmi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IMDB on the go! Very, very impressive.
- tbfl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"is there a mobile digg?"
No unfortunately...but there should be.
I have tried many times to access the site off my Palm, but the Blazer browser does not the like the coding on Digg.com. I now bookmark the mobile version created thru this Google page and it works great. - szym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do not think this is a copyright infringement. This is just content processing (i.e. my webbrowser is doing this) and proxying. Technically something like this is common.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice -- how did you happen to find this? Through your phone or what?
:)
+digg - spydust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Isn't this copyright infringement?
Google is copying content from other sites, and displaying it on THEIR site, without the ads and with out consent. (In the Google cache you access from search results, at least the ads generally still load.)
It's not fair use because it's not a critique, a parody, educational, or anything else that would fall under fair use guidelines as I understand them. - mc1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all this does is take the site, reads the source code, then rip out all the images. It's not copyright infringement at all.
- szym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool find (even if slightly old) +digg
- dink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whats the big deal with this. It appears to be nothing more then linearizing a web page. The web developer's toolbar on Firefox can do this and a lot more, just fine. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
- dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fipchicken.com%2F%3F_gwt_noimg%3D1
^^ ipchicken..
google = proxy now lol - dickyducky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AOL mobile is a better solution: big images are compresse & resized on-the-fly by their servers..
wait, PDA? hasn't it been obsolete? - ColdDimSum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Has anyone written a java app (that you can load on your phone) that browses the web directly?
- goslackware, on 02/13/2008, -0/+0Then just make a mobile optimized website:
http://www.swiftmob.com/index.html
http://digg.com/design/Take_Your_Blog_Mobile_in_5_ ... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great another step in the right direction towards: GOOGLE DOMINATION
- msafi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it doesn't let you use forms that require password and id for obvious reasons.
- terrenceisdaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0great submission - this is cool
brings back the memories of digg v1.0 - h3adstr0ng, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1digg to go
- gooroo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Digg it! I can really use this!
- ceros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oooh, great stuff.
- spydust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Sorry, I meant to say:
Also, copyright is meant to protect content in a legal way rather than a technical one. Although there is nothing stopping someone from copying a site's content and redistributing it to the world ad-free, there is also nothing stopping someone from recording a TV show and redistributing it to the world ad-free ---- but I think neither is within fair use. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It isn't working too well for the sites I've tried on it..
It may need a little more work... - maverick3x6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is good for many older table based sites, but with any of the newer W3 Standard based sites using XHTML (table less) & CSS this isn't necessary because they are already built for mobile devices.
- spydust, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I do not think this is a copyright infringement. This is just content processing (i.e. my webbrowser is doing this) and proxying. Technically something like this is common."
A web browser is client-end, but what Google is doing is taking content off of other sites and re-distributing it on THEIR site.
Also, copyright - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4This is not news, anyone who has done a google search on thier phone knows this.
- solomodels, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0yet another google experiment that never gets anywhere ...
- SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0nice
- Zonkzor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I love how Google just puts these services out there without screwing around. They need to give us more options as to how much it strips out. Another cool feature would being able to create a list of websites that you use frequently.
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