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- fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+90Mmmm more eye candy.
So much cooler than comment threading, or searching, or being able to delete comments. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+60The text starts off way too small.
- seandfeeney, on 10/11/2007, -4/+54Can someone please tell me, how this is useful?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+43As a matter of fact, I can.
This is useful in many ways. But first, let me point out some of the amazing features.
1. The text in the middle is too small for you to read.
2. When you put your cursor over anything, you only see the category name of the article, nothing about the article or what it even is.
3. The full screen version is the same exact size as the regular version, but has more black surrounding it. (excellent)
4. It was really expensive.
5. Only 4 people know what it really is, and 2 of them think it's the dumbest thing they've ever come up with. The other two lied, they really don't know what it is.
6. Kevin Rose likes it. Anything he likes is freaking so digged.
As for it's usefulness, you can just assume that without 1-6, this new tool wouldn't be useful. - hypnotoad32, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35Must destroy MCP cone and move on to lightcycle level....
- Angostura, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29Digg Labs appears to be completely committed to producing creative, visually appealing tools that you keep thinking must provide some useful level of analysis, and yet really don't. Like Swarm, it looks nifty, but is inherently useless.
- fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30Out of curiousity, how are any of the tools actually useful?
- xpose, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27@fkr3 (#6694864)
Ive never seen a web company waste more time on crap than this. I have no idea what kevin rose and the digg team is thinking. How about another digg revolt to achieve:
Comment threading
Comment notification
Picture section - canewediggit, on 10/11/2007, -5/+27aaaahhhh, it's freakin me out, man!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+27WhoooooW!!! See crappy stories in a whole new way.
- Kibf, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Because it'll distract a few people for a bit so they can delay adding useful features.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Looks interesting but someone is gonna have to explain it to me.....i'm possibly being a bit thick today but what is the greyed out arc outside the circles all about and why does the cursor turn to a text editor when i hover over it?
- wingnut21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Seriously Digg. Visualizations were cute the first couple of times. I really did watch them for more than 10 seconds, but...
WHO WANTS TO WATCH A WEB SITE ABOUT A WEB SITE?
Let's go back to concentrating on the actual site itself. - JangoFett, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Once the circle gets big enough (developers, why can't it be full size at the start?), you can use the inner arc to quickly find articles by category, middle arc to find by subcategory, and outermost arc to see individual stories. Grey areas outside the circle indicate current diggs (I think).
It's just a prettier interface, which is what all Digg Labs applications seem to be. I would like it as a screensaver though. - mstoneburner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Why would you want to socialize with a bunch of Ron Paul supporters, ubuntu fanboys, and software thieves?
- TomP, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I found that useless...
- dssstrkl, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Nice, I really like the downloadable version.
- naughtyboy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10FTA
"Arc gets its name because of the lines that connect stories on the outside of the circle. These show when the same user has Dugg two different stories, highlighting connections between stories across different topics. We think this is a great way to discover new stories across topics because it’s so easy to see connections between them."
Nice use of flash for visual presentation of real-time information. Good work! - legendxx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8go for it
- DroidBlender, on 09/18/2008, -3/+10is there going to be a way to actually socialize on digg? I keep on hearing about someway to communicate besides the comment system, but have yet to see it. Digg Arc seems cool and all, but the visualization tool concept isn't new. I hope to see some sort of communication feature soon :)
- ventro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Most of these things are novelties and don't actually have any long term use. You guys need to think more about usability than the coolness factor.
- Otto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@dblondon: The circle isn't all that complex.
Each arc on the outer rim is a single story.
The arc beneath it is the story's subtopic (like, say, Hockey or Baseball).
The arc beneath that one is the main topic of that subtopic (like Sports).
I don't see any "gray arc" that you're talking about. - nayr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5No offense, but for what? are you going to sit there and watch it all day? How about some real features for a change!
- greenlight2001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I would NOT pay for Digg, faster or other.... I waste enough time here, I don't need to be wasting money too.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@Otto,
It's because he's color blind; it's actually green. And it's not an arc, it's a tumor. - weezerrock86, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I like it the two inner arcs break down the catagories then the outside is the story its self, I think its a pretty neat way to see stories getting dugg organzied by catagory, instead of a huge swarm of bubbles.
- Rozza, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3i like the poop story better
- abxy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Like all Digg Lab tools, this is a great visualizer of site traffic. But unfortunately, *unlike* all the all other others, this has terrible usability.
Summary: Neat to look at. No fun to use. - uptown, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4This was almost exactly my idea for the digg visualization contest.
Glad I didn't have time to work on it .... othewise, I'd have been pissed..... - PathDaemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It updates way faster than the web version, too.
On the other hand, it looks like they spent all of 1 minute making it. Flash > Export as Application or something. The only customized aspects of it are the flash movie enclosed and the filename. Menu bar, Info.plist, etc. all identify it as a generic flash player. (I'm speaking of the Mac version. Can't speak for Windows). - intilli4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is very very cool but I am waiting for the interactive flower field that Kevin Demoed at the v2 party.
- anaesthetica, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3May be useful when you have the option to only look at the "arc" of upcoming stories, instead of just seeing votes piled onto front page stories.
Kinda interesting simply for the fact that World & Business articles take up just as much if not more of the total number of diggs than Technology articles do. - Psykus2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'd edit my last comment, but the timer has run out.
Swarm is also nice to have in the background when you're doing something else. If some huge story breaks, swarm will go nuts, and you can easy go into it and see what the big story is, and also easily see any related stories, with the lines connected to other stories. - PathDaemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2In this respect, Digg labs is exactly the opposite of Google labs, which has a bunch of random new technologies that are oddly useful and fun.
- marnaq, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3get flash 9 for linux?
- unclejesse0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It was sarcasm. Whatever, too late now.
Edit: And that scene from Spiderman was really wierd. - Dasw00t, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2honestly, whats the point of this? i don't see any practical use for this other than someone showing off their math/script skills :-S
- uptown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1FYI: I had the debug version of Flash 9 installed that shipped with Flex Builder 2. Upon bringing up this visualization, it prompted me to update my Flash install. Upon doing so, this movie worked, but it broke the debugging ability in Flex Builder 2. To fix that, I had to re-install the Flash player that Flex keeps in its program directories. Took a few hours for me to figure it all out ... but figured I'd pass it along in case anyone else ran into the same problem.
- SIRBERUS, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Had they named it "tube" instead of "pipe" I would love it even more.
- ricepudd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mr Burka, instead of doing pointless stuff like this, please could you spend your time doing stuff we actually want... e.g. a pictures section. Thank you.
- searayman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I do.... all the other dig labs stuff works....
- Psykus2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I find Swarm to be pretty useful. It makes it painfully obvious when a group of bots are digging the same crap over and over, shows you what to avoid.
Arc though...I dunno. It looks too confusing, and when I actually found an article I wanted to open, I couldn't seem to do it. Maybe it's a bug. - PathDaemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Find a program to make flash into a screensaver (not on Windows so I can't help you with details) and use it on the standalone.swf file contained within the app.
- ChrisLowder, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Craptacular !!!
- spect3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You probably have to wait 30 seconds after every click because of your comment threshold, and your browser is trying to draw all the comments - when in reality - if you blocked out all comments, say, -5 and lower, your page would load much faster.
- PathDaemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@unclejesse0
Like the Spiderman 3 emo sequence, I'm really tempted to read that as sarcasm, but have this little fear that it's not. - Otto, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Very cool. Although, the thing crashed my Firefox after just a few minutes, so that kinda sucks.
But I agree with the above sentiment... Being able to delete comments or proper comment threading would be nicer than eye candy. Functionality over form, dude. - searayman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1linux support?
- dkypuros, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0It seems very small on my imac duo core.
- fnie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0very nice tools thanks - i´ll try it
the others are also nice visualized
it´s really necassary what you guys do here, -
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