Automatic Digging…
Imagine this:
Touchstone is a Personal Relevancy Engine. This means it can automatically calculate which Digg stories are the most ‘Personally Relevant’ to you.
Therefore it is conceptually possible for someone to write a Touchstone ‘Output Adapter’ that:
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Checked incoming Touchstone items to see if they came from the Digg RSS feed.
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If they came from Digg and they are rated, by Touchstone, as very personally relevant to you, the adapter could execute the ‘Digg’ command for that story on your behalf.
This way, Touchstone could automatically Digg stories for you.
Automatic Digging…
Update: I’m not sure if this is useful or even appropriate for Digg - it was just an idea that struck me - if nothing else it is an interesting application of Touchstone Technology. Feel free to comment to let me know your thoughts.
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December 4th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I don’t think that automated digging would be helful to digg.com. The point is to read the articles and then digg them if it is interesting. If it’s dugg by software and no one ever really read the article, then its just google news.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Instead of creating a backdoor to digg, why not create another service like digg?
December 4th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Hi Dan,
I don’t know if it would be helpful to Digg.com itself either. Would probably dampen their page views!
But in the end it would be far different from Google news - Users would still submit the stories and the best ones would still get on the home page - it would just be a bit of automation from some users.
Tekrat - That’s possible too I guess. Let me know if you want to make one I’m happy to provide the tools!
January 20th, 2007 at 1:22 am
But only for Windows users, huh?
Lame. Buried