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diggcontest.com — Digg API Contest Finalist: Flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories. Additionally, a graph is generated showing a selected story's popularity over time. The user view allows viewing a user's popular submitted stories. By: Ryan Robinson (rr525356)

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dkforeva, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2cooool
- RossTizma, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4Wow, Google did the same thing with the stock market, except this isn't useful.
- Tanglefuzz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9Isn't this just a quick mashup of some of the default features of Adobe Flex and the Digg API? Could be done in about 15 minutes....
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13This is gonna win the competion easily as this is more useful than the other ones. By the way all those apollo entries are just gonna gather dust lol, who wants to install apollo anyway!
- estacado, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2*shamelessplug*
  Here's my Digg app - Rigglations. It shows relationships between Digg users. Uses Konfabulator, not Apollo, but still cross-platform. http://www.shirazlabs.com/rigglations.
- zandr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1rr525356 say hello to Falcon Northwest Gaming PC, full catalog of EA games for the PC, & Adobe CS3 Master Collection :-) Good going man, but tell me why cant I analyze more than 8 diggs in the charts??
- estacado, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2Shameless plug gone wrong. Shame on me. Lets try again, this time without the fullstop.
  http://www.shirazlabs.com/rigglations
- jbschusty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Simple. Interesting. Effective. Doesn't look like a 12 yr old designed.
  
  Now, can we get something that highlights spammers in scarlet red?
akula89, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38this really sets itself apart by being USEFUL and not just looking cool!
- flump, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10How is this useful for us actual users? Reminds me of analytics. Useful for webmasters sure..
lockfist, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7We've got a winner!
- alsp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I agree. I just wish there was a way to see data for a specific story, rather than the recently popular ones. But a very practical application and the worthy winner.
  
  BTW check out my experiment with the Digg API to show diggs in real-time on a Google map: http://www.bittrees.com/diggmap
evilregis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Hands down. This is so far above the rest that it's not even a contest. Beautiful, useful and perfectly executed. Very nice work.
- evanbooth, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2wow.. I regret not entering. Sorry, how is this useful?
  
  Maybe I missed the point of the contest.
- alecks, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Yeah, i agree. This looks like it took all of 20 minutes to build, using flex's built in components. I think all the kiddies are seeing a flex app for the first time and the gui impresses them.
- makis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1i regret for not entering the contest too
  damn shyness :)))
Sidzilla, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Bravo!
Thoughtgasms, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I like it for the reasons above, plus the fact that it doesn't need Apollo.
smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The sorting by diggs function doesn't work properly, it will rank a story with 99 diggs over a story with 800 diggs, it apparently only looks at the first digit.
- DeathfireD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5No it seems like it looks at the first 2 digits since when you get down to the 600's you see 61 show up in front of 605.
- smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Right, but it shouldn't be looking at digits at all..it should be looking at the VALUE of the number of diggs.
  
  It will rank a story with 3 diggs ahead of a story with 1000 diggs, but will correctly rank one with 315 diggs over a story with 314.
- armantic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It actually sorts as a string, not an int. Meh, oh well. (makes a mental note of things to be fixed)
anchorman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Just when I thought I was good at Flash... someone has to come along and make me look like an amateur!

ARGH!!!
- andywebb95, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@anchorman
  
  I would give Flex 2 a try.
  
  It's basically "Flash for application developers".
  
  You will be surprised at the types of applications you can generate in a short period of time.
  
  If you want to create animations I would use traditional Adobe Flash. It's designed for that (timeline, etc). You can build applications, they just take work.
  
  If you want to create applications I would use Adobe Flex. It's designed for that. You can build crude animations in Flex, but it takes alot of work.
  
  The resulting object is a SWF in both cases.
- alecks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Creating animations in Flex is actually quite easy (assuming you mean animating the UI components, ie. having things slide out, fade in, etc...)
- mikepotter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You can find out more about Flex at http://www.flex.org/
thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3nice, now we can start seeing who is gaming the digg system in real time
sam991, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'm sorry, is this the competition to see who can say 'useful' the most?
- ryanmm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1useful shot!
  
  ...i play too much FIFA :(
andywebb95, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Very nice mash-up app and a good example of what you can do in Flex.
minigamer1896, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3One problem, how do we get to the story via the API? Other than that, 'tis a great idea!
dougerdo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Wicked.
angelces, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Love it! wish you could click on the articles though.
- Dycacian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7it looks great, but it is pretty useless without links to the stories.
- AmateurX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I agree, if I can't get to the story I'm looking at, what's the point of the graph?
griz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Need to increase the sample rate to more than 1 hour intervals.
Dycacian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It messed up the Accent on Digg Expos´
skhisma, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Just have to say one thing - do we really need drop-shadows on the charts?
newstart, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dude, it only shows about 10 diggs for each user to analyze. That sucks, I cant analyze my others submited stories
hiteshmehta, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is really cool.
jgustie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Did I miss something, how do you actually visit the stories? Also, do you really expect me to match a 7 digit number (5 from right to left) to read the pie chart of uselessness?
- mllive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I don't see a way either to go to the stories...
  
  If the author can add links from the story titles and the popularity pay chart to the story, and other navigation options to this I can see that this might well be a useful home-ish page.
  
  Other suggestions:
  
  1) make the individual Categories and Topics click-able so that I can see the stories "similar" to the one shown. (I know I can set that at the top, but it would be nicer to click on it in the story description)
  
  2) I'd like a "Text" or color encoding of the graph in each story description. I'd like to see a 11 character bar that showed the popularity over the last hours of a story, Thus the story that became popular last hour and then died would be shown as: "000000095" that way I could immediately see the trend of the stories popularity.
- Sumyunguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I was trying to view the stories as well. Doesn't work!
- armantic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Ha, yeah. It actually has the functionality to view the story already built into the back end. I guess the "Open Link" button got left off at the last minute (stupid deadlines!). I am making a list of all the features being suggested here, and I will post a link to an updated version (along with the source code) once the competition is over. However, I don't think it would be fair to do this before all the votes are in.
  
  Thanks for all the comments, even the negative ones! Someone once said that if no body hates you, you must not be doing anything important ;-)
  
  take care,
  
  ...a
ilkeryoldas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The moment we've all been waiting for..
monkeywaffles, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1You hereby acknowledge and agree that Digg is hereby granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right to display, perform, use, reproduce, modify, distribute and provide users access to all Animations (including all related intellectual property rights) in connection with the Digg services and Digg website. Digg will credit you as the developer of the Animation in a manner that Digg reasonably determines.

Animations being the term they use for the entire work.. i.e. "Prize Criteria: Animations will be judged and ranked for the Finalist Prizes based on creativity, usefulness, effective"

Way to give away your IP, work, etc. not for the betterment of the community, but for the betterment of someone's pocketbook.
profOblivion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Awesome stuff. Fix the date/time axis labels though, if you can - they're unreadable for older stories.
KrackMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0In related news...Nintendo has announced a lawsuit against Digg for unauthorized use of their 8-bit graphics code.
spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sorting by Diggs is broken. 70 comes after 600. ASCIIbetical sort?
jydesign, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think this is the most useful of the lot. Seeing the data for each story in this way is great. What I really appreciate is the ability to filter categories and topics, as this actually seems like a quicker way to dig thru digg than the normal UI.

I'd be intrigued to see a variation on the list UI where instead of having drop-downs for your filtering mechanism, you tried using multiple columns like iTunes does. Not sure if that would hold up in practice, but it came to mind immediately when I saw how powerful and useful the filtering option is. Well done!
bpapa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not really a fan of this one. I bring it up and it's on some seemingly random story. Why? The navigation is hard, and I can't even read the text near the pie chart.

BTW not hating, I figured I'd just post my thoughts on each entry.
supertom, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I love this
Shizlak, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I would say this is the least awful submission. None of these entries are at all useful.. Why wouldn't you just go to digg.com? All of these apps show you less information in a more cluttered format with no benefits to the viewer. What a lame contest.
SirBax, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1By far the most useful and graphically appealing submission. Digg on!
zappo1776, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Text around the graph and pie chart is too small to read on most monitors.
HepDigs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Definitely the most useful. I love it.

For me, it's this one or Digg Expose.

Tough choice, both are great.
tractorpunch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I had to recreate my digg login, so yes - it appears I am new here. This is a nice use of Flex 2 with Charting- Simple, easy to follow and if I am not mistaken after doing some digging on the web and found on a blog that you submitted a fish tank along with this - diggquarium or something? I think the fish tank is even better! Very cool idea rr525356
mercid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Try to work in a link to the original story if possible... That would would make it even more useful
thal3s, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ditto what "evilregis" said - nothing else in the contest even comes close to this.

If for some reason this does not win the contest (WHY?!), it needs to be added to the Digg site anyway - it's that freakin' cool.
tallguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is an exciting and innovative GUI for Digg, that I really like.

However, a note to the developer: I run PC with extended desktop. At 1600x1200 in Firefox with five different toolbars and the status bar, this looks fantastic. At 1024x768, on my notebook's display, it looks cluttered and everything is squished to the point where it is not pleasing.

Thanks for the submission --Elliott
awflasher, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0greate flex~
armantic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I never did post the link to the updated version and the source like I promised. If any one is still interested, here they are.

Cleaned up version
http://labs.splashlabs.com/diggcharts/

And the source is at:
http://labs.splashlabs.com/diggcharts/srcview/index.html

Best Regards,
...aaron
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