Video sharing site MetaCafe launched a new area of their site today – it uses the Digg API to show the most popular MetaCafe videos.
Viewers can sort by most dugg, highest rated, most discussed, most viewed, etc. Only Metacafe videos are shown.
Digg’s video channel and Metacafe overlap somewhat, particularly for people who just want to quickly find and browse interesting videos. That makes this pairing somewhat unlikely – I would have expected Metacafe to simply build their own Digg-like voting system or use Pligg’s open source software (see VideoSift’s similar functionality, which was recently in the news). The fact that they are working with Digg shows that they are willing to hitch their brand to that shooting star, damn the competitive angle.
Metacafe released a press release this afternoon on the new functionality. Notably absent from the release was Digg, who did not jointly release it, or provide a quote. (Update – see comment #2 below).