PyDigg is a Python toolkit for the Digg API. It provides an object-oriented interface to all of the available endpoints of the API. It is offered under the MIT License.
Download it here: (tar.gz | zip)
Over the years, I’ve used Python for various purposes. I’ve always found it to be a great language for just about […]
The Smart Digg Button extension for Firefox places a button in your status bar. It uses the newly released Digg API to determine if the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg.
If the page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg, it displays the current number of Diggs the page […]
As some of you know, about a year ago I quit my day-job to focus on a software startup that I co-founded with some friends. We’re called Touchpoint Studios.
Our work came to fruition recently as we have just released our first product, Touchpoint Gallery. It’s a desktop application that enables you to collect digital photos […]
Add another one to the pile. MySpace is the latest of the big players to adopt the socially driven model for news delivery. Being one of the top 10 most visited sites on the web, its natural to expect a lot from such an offering. It also begs the question, with a user count that […]
Digg user MrBabyMan created this 2-minute comedic documentary (documomedy?) to commemorate Digg’s recent milestone of passing the 1 million user mark. Digg on!
Here’s a list of ideas I’ve had over the past year or so while using social news sites. Most of them are ideas that I think would improve sites like Digg, Netscape and Reddit in one way or another. Admittedly, one or two of them would just be interesting to see implemented on an experimental […]
Have you ever tried to participate on one of the big social news sites and found that you just didn’t fit in? Perhaps the problem is the level of conversation. Perhaps it is the community’s main interests. Did you know there are a world of alternatives out there which cater to niche interests, each with […]
It takes a certain type of personality to climb the ranks on sites such as Digg. Here are some traits that are common among the most active social newsies.
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