Digg Labs

So, I just wanted to talk about one of the links near the bottom of my side bar under the ‘webware’ category. It’s called Digg.

Digg is a user based community that submits and votes on different stories, pics, videos – anything with a URL – and compiles them all into one cohesive website. In real world terms, it’s a site where you can see up to the minute tech info, news and oddities with a rating/voting system so you don’t have to waste your time surfing the big wide messy world of the Internet for popular tidbits. That’s cool. But what’s even cooler is what the people at Digg Labs have come out with.

The picture below shows one of Digg Labs three projects. This one is called Stack. It’s one of three different graphical interfaces that you can use to see content posted on Digg. Blocks fall from the top of the screen every time a person votes on, or “Diggs”, a story on Digg.com – in real time. The taller the stack gets means that people just like you are currently viewing those specific stories, signifying their popularity. The greener the stacks means that they are popular in general, and not just at that very moment. Both means you better be checking whatever that story is, if you haven’t.

I seriously recommend trying out Digg Labs Stack, or one of the other two projects, Swarm and Bigspy. It’ll be worth your while.

~ by thisguyukno on May 13, 2007.