Digg’s long-awaited recommendation engine might be the most anticipated upcoming feature at the social news site. It was first mentioned by Kevin Rose at the EmTech conference last September , and a month later in an interview with Jay Adelson . In December of last year we published an interview with the creator of third party Digg recommendation engine DiggFilter . Today, DiggFilter isn’t your only option.
This morning, via Digg (where else?), I came across DiggSuggest , a new third party Digg recommendation service. When we talked to Dmytro Mulyava, who created DiggFilter, he was coy about what his recommendation algorithm looked at, saying only that it utilized "digging patterns." DiggSuggest’s creator, Ben Guild, is equally coy, saying just that his service creates a database of recently submitted Digg stories and then "compares them to both your Digging history and their current popularity to give you great suggestions on what to Digg nex...
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Sitting at Panera, doing all the incantations I can think of - just to get the Digg API to not time out. The rubber chicken comes out next.
(That gesture is supposed to be the “firing a bullet into my mouth” thing, for those of you who are a little confused as to what I’m doing). ... more
Fun news for a Friday. From Jacob Seidelin –the dude behind JavaScript Super Mario Brothers –comes Digg Attack , an original JavaScript game using <g;canvas> for visuals (and Flash for music).
As an added twist, the game uses Digg to provide a sort of unique twist; enemies in the game are based on stories in the Digg API feed and their ratings.
Source: Ajaxian » Front Page Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/460688228/digg-attack-a-canvas-ga... more
While it’s not official, SanDisk is getting ready to launch a new mid-market PMP called the Fuze. Aimed at the 3rd generation iPod Nano, the Fuze will be an SSD-based tiny-screen having PMP that appears to have almost all the same features as the iPod Nano, plus an FM radio, but with more storage, possibly up to 16GB.
So far, SanDisks PMPs have been pretty decent, I’ve had a Sansa for awhile and it’s a great alternative to the iPod. You contrarians should have love in you... more
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The Rock Band drum kit continues to attract modders of all stripes, and we’re loving the crazy directions people are taking it -- like this beatboxing kick drum mod from Kevin Child. It’s a simple hack -- Kevin simply used a Thumper vocal-percussion mike to activate the pedal trigger -- but it’s pretty sweet in action, responding to nearly any noise he makes. We’d love to see this thing filtered through a computer with the different pads as... more
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Man, Qtrax just can’t stop lying about those label deals , can it? The company issued a press release over the weekend saying it has (finally) signed up with Sony / BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner, but Wired did a little bit of digging and found out that Qtrax isn’t being exactly honest -- spokespeople from all four labels flatly denied that any deals were in place. Apparently there have been some experimental licenses and older deals m... more
As if it wasn’t enough that your Nano was counting your every step through the chip in your Nike+ shoes, now it can track every mile you pretend to bike at the the gym. Ellipticals and such, too. They’re teaming up with 24 Hour Fitness and some Virgin thing to provide machines that track your use, assuming you have the time and inclination to plug your gear into the the thing’s port. You can then take it home and plug it in at home, at which point it will upload its data to... more
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