Archive for August, 2007

Graphing Digg Friends

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I’ve been playing around with graphviz a little bit.
It’s an interesting application that uses some algorithms I’ve been reading up on to graph different nodes in either a directed or undirected graph (and a bunch of other features that I haven’t played around with).
I thought that maybe I could use it to plot the relationship [...]

Digg Rating Extender

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Install Script (Must have Greasemonkey installed on Firefox)

I created a greasemonkey script (FIREFOX ONLY, for now) to show the digg ups and digg downs on digg stories. Here’s a picture of what it looks like now:

For those who are interested, details are below. Those who aren’t can’t just go straight to downloading the script.
Some [...]

Digg Comments, Up and Down

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I’ve been on a Digg API kick recently and it doesn’t seem to be stopping.
What surprised me particularly about the API is that theres some info that you can retrieve that’s not even shown on the digg pages. One example of that is the number of ups and downs that a comment received.
Personally, I think [...]

Design

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I’m looking to redesign the digg comment statistics page. The back-end I generally have no problems with, but when it comes to design, I just have no clue.
If someone is willing to redesign my page, I’ll offer you fame, fortune, and a link on the stats page to you or your email address! (OK, one [...]

Digg Effect

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

My page was on digg last week and managed to get both to the front page and in the top ten. It became the number one story for about an hour before it was removed from the top 10 (Stories are removed 12 hours after becoming popular).
Here is the bandwidth graph (I believe it takes [...]