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May 25, 2007

Digg API Visualization Contest Delivers Apollo Powered Applications

Duncan Riley

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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.
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  1. Steve S

    May 25th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    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.

  2. Randy

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    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.

  3. Gary King

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Randy, Flash requires you to install something. It’s pretty popular now… :)

    http://www.kinggary.com/

  4. rob

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    is adobe paying your bills this month?

  5. Tom Higgins

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am

    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

  6. TechZilo

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    Digg mob is crazy again……..even on my blog

  7. bdb

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:58 am

    “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.

  8. Rajesh Anandakrishnan

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:00 am

    Lets Digg add how many ever functionalities or features, Its good until user don’t need to add and install browler plugin.

  9. whoopee

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:12 am

    digg with a crappier slower interface

    no wonder digg has been overrun with redneck neocon types

  10. Mr. Blister

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am

    Hm. Will Digg select one winner, then send out “cease & desist using the digg name” letters to the rest?

  11. Buzzz

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am

    just read is a different view at this contest http://www.webware.com/8301-1_.....l?tag=blog

  12. KindAndThoughtful

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:45 am

    “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. “

  13. dribller

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:48 am

    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!

  14. Andy

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am

    “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.

  15. DiggShowsNoGrowth

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    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.alexa.com/data/deta.....craft2.com

  16. dbai

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    Apollo really kills… Will it be the next killer-app?

  17. Rob

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    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

  18. Alan

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    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.bittrees.com/diggmap

    Alan

  19. Randy

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:58 am

    Alan, that is fantastic. Nice work.

  20. pallet jack

    May 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    forget cease and desist to the rest / and why not have a tabbed way to browse all (4) with a firefox like -

    - Rbowles

  21. smith

    May 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    @whoopie “no wonder digg has been overrun with redneck neocon types”

    WTH? What Digg have you been reading?

  22. My friend tried to register domain name "BigBlackDigg.com"

    May 25th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    I told why would want to do that?

    My friend said to me I like blonde diggs.

    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww…… Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww….

  23. Jeffrey Greenberg

    May 25th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    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.

  24. Oz

    May 25th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    That DiggGraphr (screenshot used in post) better have been created by Marumushi, or else there’s trouble!

    http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/

  25. Duncan Riley

    May 25th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

    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.

  26. Alex

    May 26th, 2007 at 3:57 am

    On ApolloHunter.com you can see even more cool Apollo applications

    Alex,
    ApolloHunter

  27. Alex

    May 26th, 2007 at 3:58 am

    On ApolloHunter you can see even more cool Apollo applications

    http://www.apollohunter.com

  28. bdb

    May 26th, 2007 at 6:05 am

    I wonder where we can see even more cool apollo apps?

  29. Jason

    May 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    @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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