Digg Ticker

Tried my hand at the new DIGG API. It grabs the newest diggs in real-time…screws up after around 5 minutes for some reason. Now I realized this could be more informative (in an infographics manner), but I didn’t give the design much thought because I was too busy figuring out the API since there wasn’t any documentation. Source to follow when it has a semblance of order. Check it out.

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Published:: 05.27.07 / 1am

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Alan 05.27.07 / 11am

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Hi,

I really like this, its a very slick animation / visualisation.

My only slight criticism is that the text on the small stories is a bit too small. But other than that, very nice and well done!

I have also been playing with the API and have come up with a world map that updates in real-time as stories are dugg with their diggers’ location.

Check it out here: http://www.bittrees.com/diggmap

Alan
Ed 05.27.07 / 1pm

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Thanks Alan.

That’s a nifty app you have there. I totally have no clue how you managed to mosh the DIGG and GoogleMaps API together. Good job. Just an observation, I noticed that the header/digg title vanishes between updates causing everything below it to shift up and down. It gets a little dizzying after a while, what I would do is to turn the header into a block element so that it doesn’t collapse (im not sure if it’ll work though).

Cheers,
Ed
Alan 05.28.07 / 3am

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Thanks for the heads up Ed.

Should be fixed now.

Alan

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