Posts Tagged ‘DIGG’

Amazon S3 as a Live Blogging & Digg Effect Solution

June 14, 2007 – 4:09 pm
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A couple of bloggers decided to give Amazon’s S3 service (Simple Storage Solution) a shot at handling the live blogging of an Apple keynote blog. Any site that has tried to handle this in the past has been overwhelmed with traffic and hopelessly crippled.

Their solution was to write a simple admin tool that copied the updated html to an S3 bucket and let S3 handle the load. In a follow-up post the bloggers share more about the experiment and the success they had with it. They also share some impressive Event Stats:

  • 7 pictures
  • 130 text posts
  • 20k visits
  • 50k pageviews to the page
  • 5M requests - this includes the 15 second content refresh and the images.
  • 47GB of transfer
  • content was 17k, images were 200k.

Cost for the event: $10!!!! Wow, amazing! The success they had got me thinking about the “Digg Effect” and Read More »

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Geek Riot at Digg… Digg Surrenders

May 2, 2007 – 12:03 pm
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Digg Screen
Photo: zoomrix

I saw a bit of this unfold yesterday on Digg.com, when I jumped on I think users were probably in the middle of the ‘riot’. 100% of the front page articles were articles that contained the below mentioned decryption key.

In case you missed it, basically it started with the Digg Admins deleting a story that contained a link to the decryption key for HD DVDs after receiving a cease and desist declaration.

That only seemed to get everybody upset and soon story after story linking to articles with that same decryption key or even containing the key in the subject line or description started to appear.

Those stories were all soon deleted and the user accounts were suspended but the dam had broke and there was no stopping the flood at this point.

It wasn’t long before the entire home page was filled with decryption articles and the users had effectively taken over the site. There was nothing Digg could do short of bringing the site down…. Read More »

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Kevin Rose Anounces Digg’s API

April 21, 2007 – 9:28 am
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The popular article sharing site Digg.com has announced the availability of their API.

This highly anticipated move was coupled with the announcement of an API contest which has quite honestly some pretty weak prizes (I guess publicity is the real reward).

Although I don’t use Digg as much as I used to, I’m very curious to see what type of ideas and mash-ups people dream up.

After browsing around the documentation it looks to me like the API is pretty solid. The API accepts REST requests and offers several response types: XML, JSON, Javascript, and serialized PHP. Toolkits for PHP and Flash are also available (although presently lacking documentation).

Although the value of diggable articles depreciates quickly over time, the amount of data accessible remains significant and dates back to 2004.

I suppose it’s a credit to the flexibility of their already existing RSS feeds but this API doesn’t excite me nearly as much as say Flickr or even Indeed’s API did.

Perhaps my lack of enthusiasm is due to an absence of vision on my part. I remain open minded of course - perhaps this contest (even with it’s weak prizes) will kickstart the idea machine.

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