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Category: Digg

  • MrBabyMan is now the top Digg submitter

    Today, Digg user MrBabyMan achieved his 1,030th frontpage story, surpassing digitalgopher as the most successful Digg submitter, as evidenced by Digg Top 100 Users list. Congratulations, MrBabyMan!

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/23

    TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012, and Firefox’s newly-introduced controls for managing auto-playing videos have since made it obsolete. This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/19

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/19 In other Digg news, this bug I filed regarding Digg’s broken search RSS feeds 4 weeks ago has still…

  • Own a piece of history

    For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/09

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/09 On a side note, congratulations go out this week to Kevin Rose, who at #35 on the list has…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/02

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/02 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical…

  • On Digg and “Revolution”

    Jeff Harrell sums up my thoughts on the matter better than I could have. “What happened last night wasn’t a revolution, […] what happened last night is that a bunch of kids on the playground banded together to beat up another kid, a kid they saw as richer or more powerful or more snotty than…

  • Digg feeds still broken

    It’s been a week since I first brought up the problem with certain Digg Search RSS feeds being broken. I reported the bug through Digg’s “Report a Website bug” form, and I mentioned it here as well. Has a week been enough time to fix what is most likely a simple programming error? No. Initially,…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers list now Web-friendly

    Due to popular demand, I’ve made an HTML version of the Top 1,000 Digg users list. This formatted list will be updated weekly along with the CSV data files containing the same information. I’m considering just making it dynamic and allowing people to grab the “Top X Diggers” list by specifying a “?users=x” parameter (where…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/04/25

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/04/25 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical…

  • Digg’s broken feeds: 3 days later

    Status of Digg’s broken search RSS feeds: still broken.

  • A day in the life of a Digger

    The whole thing is pretty funny, but I laughed out loud at around 18 seconds left:

  • Buggy RSS feeds at Digg

    I just noticed a strange bug with Digg’s RSS feeds: when you subscribe to a feed for a search term (to monitor submissions of your blog posts, for example), sometimes the feed will be invalid because it is missing closing </channel> and </rss> tags. This means that the feed won’t be parsed by most readers,…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/04/18

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/04/18 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the RSS feed…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/04/11

    Due to the number of requests I’ve been getting for data on the top Diggers, I’ve decided to start providing regular (probably weekly) exports of the statistical Digg data that I’ve compiled. The CSV files will contain the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile…

  • Gotcha

    If you viewed Top 100 Diggers list yesterday, you saw this message: “The Top Diggers List has been removed at the request of Digg’s legal team.” Yesterday was, of course, April Fools day, and if you had viewed the HTML source of the page, you would have found this: <!-– Is it April 1 already?…

  • Meet your newest Digg friend

    It’s me! Well, at least if you’re signed into Digg, it is. As reported at TheGoogleCache, all you have to do to be added as someone’s friend on Digg is to get them to visit http://digg.com/invitefrom/yourname while they are logged into Digg. Visiting this URL adds you as their friend without requiring any confirmation, and…

  • Netscape to support OpenID later this year month

    The announcement just went public that, starting on Monday, Netscape.com and My.Netscape will support signup/signin via OpenID, and consequently, AOL screennames (AOL hosts an OpenID for each registered screenname). I’ve used the OpenID registration/signin process in our QA environment, and it is slick. Kudos to Blaine and Trey on this awesome new feature. P.S. I…

  • Is Digg lowering its standards?

    Is Digg lowering its standards for how many votes are necessary for a story to hit the front page? Currently, the top two stories at Digg have 19 and 31 votes and were submitted 6 and 25 hours ago, respectively. Is it just me, or did stories not too long ago need closer to 50…

  • That was easy

    And just like that, Karim (supernova17) has been unbanned. (See here for the banning.) At the rate that Digg bans and unbans this guy, they should just install a Staples Easy Button at their office to take care of it.

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