Digg On Your Desktop

I’ve previously posted a video of the new search interface I’ve been experimenting with. In order to get some feedback on how it works I’ve put together a small application that uses the Digg API to display the popular news stories on your desktop background.

Quality Reading For 10 May 2007

I’ve decided to put together a list of the material I read on the internet throughout the day whenever I get the time to do so, meaning that you my loyal readers have someone to sort the wheat from the chaff for you.

Don’t Use Google, Praise Apple or Deify Digg

Some of you seem to be under the misconception that you’re right. Of course you’re not.

I’m right, you’re all wrong and I’m going to whinge about it because this is web 2.0 and I can.

Activists or Mob? The First Digg Riots

This morning I came into work, I ran some SEO checks on a few sites and started up FireFox. As usual I browsed speculatively towards Digg for my hit of the overnight news that just wouldn’t be covered in the Metro newspaper I’d browsed through on the bus.

At first I couldn’t work out exactly what had happened. The following code was written everywhere :
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Through my sleepy haze I realised it was the code for unlocking HD-DVD protection that I’d seen a couple of times on stories the previous day. It transpires that Digg were actively deleting the stories featuring this seemingly unthreatening code in response to a cease and desist letter.

User/Submitter Under Auction

The money grubbers at User/Submitter are now attempting to auction off their site for bids in the region of $50,000. Current willing bidders : 0. There’s some useful information, and some apparent cv rewriting going on at the ebay auction page.

First Release of Anti Usersubmitter.com Application

I’m quite annoyed to think that usersubmitter.com can so easily manipulate Digg. So I decided to put together a little application that finds any stories being manipulated, lets you know with one click and then if you double click it the story will open in your browser so you can bury it sharpish.

Have fun

I anticipate usersubmitter may try to counter this and I plan on releasing faster than they can update so check back often if your version stops working. Equally if you have any problems running then let me know.

.NET 2 framework is required to run this program, sorry to Linux fans I may put together a version using Mono if there’s enough demand but i hope to bury them more quickly than that

Download the application