The Digg API Visualization Contest held to celebrate the launch of the Digg API is now in its final stages with 10 shortlisted candidates.
Four of the ten finalists are Abode Apollo based applications, remarkable for a platform launched just over 2 months ago.
The four Apollo based finalists:
D’Lite is an Apollo application that utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve data, information, and processes. Features include pagination, favorites, network detection, and smart auto refresh.
Digg Watch is a tool that lets users browse Digg and grab information from stories, like who Dugg what stories and how many Diggs a story gets over time. A nifty tool in looking up user activity.
Mini Digg allows users to view stories and see the story activity. A story tracking feature allows users to save favorite stories for future tracking.
DiggGraphr is a desktop application that lets users browse Digg stories in treemaps. The application allows customization as well as choice of Digg Channel.
All four have individual appeal and are generally clever implementations of data pulled from Digg and generated under Apollo. Voting closes May 30.
Some of those Digg programs are really interesting. Now if they can only find a way to use some of these visualizations to improve UI.
Any web site that requires you to install some weird software is a failure in terms of usability.
“This software requires you do download and install blah blah blah.”
Pffft, forget it.
Randy, Flash requires you to install something. It’s pretty popular now…
http://www.kinggary.com/
is adobe paying your bills this month?
Randy
You miss the point here. Think of Apollo as a “Browser-less” way to interact with the web – it’s an application like any other application you would install on your computer but this application can support countless applications that have the capability to blur the line between your desktop and the web without ever opening a browser…
Tom
Digg mob is crazy again……..even on my blog
“Any web site that requires you to install some weird software is a failure in terms of usability.”
Well, we aren’t exactly talking about applications for people that have difficulty with such a simple operations. This “weird software” will be rolled into the next flash plugin, so you wont even notice when your system is upgraded, but maybe it makes you feel better not knowing that something has been installed.
While your argument makes sense to the extent that wide-spread deployment will be difficult, people interested in the “latest” developments around a website devoted to tech news and its API are willing to install SW. Maybe you are reading the sites for your taste.
Most of us here have several “weird software” applications installed:
Firefox
Joost
Apollo
Silverlight
etc.
Lets Digg add how many ever functionalities or features, Its good until user don’t need to add and install browler plugin.
digg with a crappier slower interface
no wonder digg has been overrun with redneck neocon types
Hm. Will Digg select one winner, then send out “cease & desist using the digg name” letters to the rest?
just read is a different view at this contest http://www.webw...2.html?tag=blog
“The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. “
Crappy? it’s just simple evolution my guys! look at the big boys… Google desktop, Live search on Vista and so on… good job Digg people!
“Think of Apollo as a “Browser-less” way to interact with the web – it’s an application like any other application you would install on your computer but this application can support countless applications that have the capability to blur the line between your desktop and the web without ever opening a browser…”
How very meta.
Has anyone noticed that Digg’s recent traffic trend has been very erratic based on Alexa.. compete.com tells a different story.. what’s up with alexa…
Permalink for alexa below:
http://www.alex...=starcraft2.com
Apollo really kills… Will it be the next killer-app?
It’s an interesting way for them to generate new ways to interact with their site, but I agree that most people aren’t going to want to download some custom software just for Digg. Maybe they’ll just incorporate these ideas back into their main site.
http://blog.thetechnonaut.com
Hi,
Some of these visualisations are really cool, especially Digg Charts and WordWeb.
You may also wish to check out my visualisation (although I’m not a contender) which is a map that is updated in real-time with the locations of diggers as they digg stories.
Check it out here: http://www.bitt...ees.com/diggmap
Alan
Alan, that is fantastic. Nice work.
forget cease and desist to the rest / and why not have a tabbed way to browse all (4) with a firefox like –
- Rbowles
@whoopie “no wonder digg has been overrun with redneck neocon types”
WTH? What Digg have you been reading?
I told why would want to do that?
My friend said to me I like blonde diggs.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww…… Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww….
Apollo looks interesting but so far the two apps I tried just launch and do an initial display and then crash consistently…
Anything that brings better graphics to the web beyond the neanderthal graphics we get now with SVG/VML/ is a step forward, though I wish it were opensource.
That DiggGraphr (screenshot used in post) better have been created by Marumushi, or else there’s trouble!
http://www.maru...m/apps/newsmap/
Interesting that people are reporting speed issues, I didn’t see any speed issues with these and I’m not running a top of the range machine, AMD 64bit 3400+ with 2gb of Ram, these all purred for me.
On ApolloHunter.com you can see even more cool Apollo applications
Alex,
ApolloHunter
On ApolloHunter you can see even more cool Apollo applications
http://www.apollohunter.com
I wonder where we can see even more cool apollo apps?
@Oz
No kidding. How can a visualization based completely on someone else’s news visualization be in the running? Newsmap has been around for years, DiggGraphr is embarrassing in it’s blatancy. (and I know Marcos who did newsmap, and if he did a Digg visualization, it wouldn’t look exactly like one of his already popular visualizations. He’s got a few more tricks in his book than that.)
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