Archive for the ‘Digg’ Category

Digg On Your Desktop

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

[digg=http://www.digg.com/software/Digg_For_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. The application will update for the ...

Quality Reading For 10 May 2007

Thursday, May 10th, 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. DIY 3D Fabrication Machine Makes Sculptures ...

Don’t Use Google, Praise Apple or Deify Digg

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

[digg=http://www.digg.com/tech_news/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. Any of you who've ever read and loved Joseph Heller's Catch 22 will know why you ...

Activists or Mob? The First Digg Riots

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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 ...

User/Submitter Under Auction

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

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. At a glance: Launched in October 2006 Profitable I bet it ...