Today, Digg held a party celebrating its 1 million user mark. But, to make sure they give something extra to the community, they have released a public API and Flash application toolkit. This means that the developers will be able to do cool stuff with Digg’s data, dating from 2004.
Not leaving anything to chance, Digg immediately launched a contest for the best application/visualization of Digg data. The rewards include a Falcon Northwest (read: good and expensive) gaming PC, and some other cool prizes.
Given the popularity of Digg, I don’t doubt for a second that we will seen some very cool Digg-based tools & toys in the following weeks, and I’m looking forward to it. My money says that if Digg coders left any imaginable way to recreate the Digg top list, someone will do it in two days’ time.
awesome news, can’t wait to have a look at it myself.
though i haven’t the faintest idea how to use API’s but this just makes me want to learn.
@Ali: If you were a programmer, you’d know (:. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Api
Wow, how on earth do I contact you? I’ve looked everywhere - even in the Advertise tag there doesn’t seem to be any contact information. So how do I send you some news? Cheers, Ivan
@Ivan: the email address is in the about link. But good you’ve mentioned it, I must include it in some other way if people are having problems finding it.
It’s franticindustries (at) gmail (dot) com .
I can’t wait until someone brings back the top user page using the API. That will be a good day, indeed.