Beautiful Digg Tool Provides Wealth Of Interesting Data

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Digg Explorer is not a completely new tool - it’s recently reached version 1.1 - but it has somehow slipped under the radar. It offers a visual representation of various Digg-related statistics: most popular Digg sections and subsections, often used words, most popular submitted domains and the like. It even ...

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In Case You Need to Digg and YouTube at the Same Time

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

What’s the easiest way to keep track of your Dugg YouTube videos? Use a mashup. Paul Yanez has created one such application, which goes by no name but is simply called the Digg and YouTube mashup. Open up the application here, and you’ll see a giant YouTube ...

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Political Love (Or Not) on Digg and Yahoo

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

As 2008 comes upon us, it’s evident that the entire world of the web has got presidential candidate fever. Both Yahoo and Digg have launched new campaigns of their own to get your say on who will win the big race. This isn’t the first effort ...

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Learning from Digg (DeCSS 2.0)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

As I write this, Digg is offline after being overrun with stories about the HD DVD key that was recently leaked. Why are such stories so popular? Primarily because the original story about the leak was removed, which itself was a reaction to recent th...

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Security: Digg Versus Furl

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

While adding links to my feed, I noticed similar security vulnerabilities in both Digg and Furl. (Josh Ribakoff of DevNetwork Forums played a part in discovering Furl's vulnerability.) Of course, I immediately notified each of them and offered a simpl...

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