Instantly Hooked on Diggdot.us
Michael Arrington
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Three sites I use often are Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us/popular. If you want to find out what’s hot right now on the Internet, those sites will tell you (although Memeorandum usually gets the news even before these sites).
I saw a blurb on Programmable Web about DiggDot.us, which launched yesterday. Diggdot.us combines results from all three of those sites into one very clean interface. Stories have been de-duplicated, and they claim to have additional content as well.
Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular - this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.
If you are a news junkie, this is for you. Or at least, it will be once they have an RSS feed. Shame.
I was really confused by this. I was wondering what the point of this site was if it didn’t have an rss feed because the only times I look at any of these sites is through bloglines. Shame indeed.
Isn’t it the same as having the rss feed from the 3 sides on the same page? I do this in my live.com page bacause it also shows the previews.
Minus the “additional content” isn’t this site just doing what a “good” newsreader should do?
Did you go to their site? Did you click on FrozenBear?
Ummmmm, of course they have an rss feed, just no orange image: http://diggdot.us/rss
RSS is up. I sent them an email about RSS, and 30 minutes later it was up. Great!
Very interesting site. Bloglines picked up an RSS feed at http://diggdot.us/rss that I just subscribed to. Thanks for sharing!
The RSS feed is now present. Fantastic!
apart from removing the dupes, which admittedly is a neat thing, what else does diggdot.us offer? I didn’t see any other “extra niceities”. just asking…
TechTiki is a thousand times better - and by the way, it has an rss feed which updates according to the tags you select…
url: http://www.atiki.com/tech
How long before Kevin Rose uses a couple hundred thousand of those millions to sue the crap out of them for using the digg name?
Adding some more Web2.0 buzz to this entry: Diggdot.us was built with TurboGears , a rapid web development framework similar to Ruby on Rails but with Python.
I found the site interesting, although I have been doing a similar thing with http://www.netvibes.com on my own, I can see the appeal to those who are just now getting into “where’s the top info at” going there first instead of figuring out where all the good stuff is.
A great site to send someone new to.
You can kinds do this with my.yahoo I think with the feeds or Y360 which I have also experimented with.
How long before people start getting into copyright issues - the post about taking other peoples good headlines and adding your own adsense to it is gonna eventually come to some battles over lost traffic I would think…