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29 Super Awesome Tools Built on the Digg API

July 11, 2007

Ever since Digg opened its API, talented programmers have built a ton of tools that utilize Digg. Some of these tools monitor upcoming and popular stories. Others tell you about your account statistics and your circle of friends. Yet others allow users to browse stories, videos, and pictures in very unique and flashy ways. Here are twenty-nine tools, with some being lesser known than others, but all of them having some pretty significant purpose in the life of a Digger.

1. diggwatcher is a simple application built in Flash that runs in the background and monitors a single Digg story of your choosing. You can receive sound alerts when you get new Diggs, comments, and when your story becomes popular. The script refreshes every 60 seconds.

diggwatcher

2. The Digg Noise Filter is a tool that will let you watch upcoming stories before they become popular… that’s if you don’t want to use the regular Digg upcoming tool. (Developed by Russ Jones)

Digg Noisefilter

3. Digg Entourage was also developed by Russ Jones and shows you who is in your Digg social circle by avatar and also in table format (number of stories Dugg, percentage of stories Dugg, and whether they’re your friend or fan):

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Where Have I Gone? Facebook has Graced My Presence.

June 14, 2007

In the past few months, Facebook has been attracting a plethora of new users, including people who vowed never to jump on that bandwagon. I guess that most people cave into peer pressure after all.

Especially online. Especially when it connects the older generations to the younger generations (like parents to their children and grandparents to their grandchildren). I can’t wait until my grandma signs up for Facebook. Her picture is already posted on it.

A lot of people among me have been overwhelmed by the recent changes at Facebook. On May 24, Facebook launched the F8 Facebook Developer Platform, allowing third-party application developers to integrate new applications and tools into their Facebook account.

For awhile, I feared that this would be MySpace. But as I saw the opportunities, this is hardly a MySpace at all. Facebook still has the clean look, but you can spruce it up a bit and personalize it even further.

And while people are posting preliminary results of their first impressions of Facebook applications, here is what’s driving me to Facebook:

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User

February 15, 2007

I was one of the first users of Facebook back in April 2004 when it was rolled out to specific schools other than its founding community, Harvard. I had graduated college the previous year, so many of my classmates seemed to have “moved on” from the social sites of my time (all of which have dissolved). But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network.

I look back at Facebook’s emergence as a truly popular and desirable network that has simply gone from good to better. While other networks seem to lag behind, Facebook is truly another face in the crowd. And it’s obviously doing something right.

Facebook Main Page

I “interviewed” my friend (and fellow ’03 grad) who recently signed up to Facebook. Why the sudden appeal? Not surprisingly, word of mouth took the cake. The icing? Her younger siblings were using it all the time. Facebook is not just a social network anymore; it is a society. I’ve seen several profiles with quotes to the likes of “I live on Facebook.” And several people are trying to convince others to jump on the bandwagon, because this one seems to be a keeper.

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Yahoo! to Release Code of its E-mail System

September 30, 2006

In a bold move on Friday, Yahoo! announced that it will be providing the API code to Yahoo! Mail, an action that they hope will enable developers throughout the world to create new services and addons to its popular email software that is used by over 257 million individuals.

Yahoo has already provided such access to the public in providing the code to its Flickr software, and Google Maps also allows development on its platform. The OnNYTurf NYC Subway Map is based on this code.

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Cool Website of the Day: NYC Google Map Hack

September 26, 2006

I’ve decided that there’s a lot of potential for my blog to go in many different directions, since, after all, its title is “Everything Tech.” I could focus on the same kind of content that I find when I read a lot of the inspirational websites that I subscribe to on Bloglines, my RSS feed reader, or I can be a little bit different.

I’m choosing the path less traveled by.

The focus of the “website of the day” blog (or, I’ll be likely to provide an update every few days with only resourceful links) is to share something new and unique — or so I hope. Further, it’s something that you should be bookmarking or digging on its own merit, not on the fact that I’ve decided to publicize it.

Without further ado, I now feature onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map. For me, as a New York resident, this is one of the most interesting subway maps that exist today. I should also mention at this point that I am married to a transit geek; just check out his gallery.

Edit 9/30/06: Gawker adds on this and provides a NYC Subway Smell Map. Ah, no thanks. Maybe I’ll walk after all. –tw

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