Winners of the Digg API Best Use Contest Announced

As announced earlier, the competition for the most unusual, interesting, creative use of the Digg API ended yesterday.

Finally, among the ten works that reached the final, three winners were identified .

The first place went to Chris Alvares (Chris Alvares) with his work Digg City , who scored 2601 "digg" (as the site called points). This work shows in real time the change in the number of votes for links to news in the form of a city under construction, in which each building is a separate news. Drawn men act as cast votes: when a user votes for news, a virtual person enters a building, which in turn increases, turning into a skyscraper. It was for such a straightforward idea that Chris Alvarez received a powerful gaming computer, a collection of all PC games from EA and the Adobe CS3 Master Collection.

Silver was awarded to Ryan Robinson (Ryan Robinson) for Digg Charts . Digg Charts, as the name implies, is a service that displays various voting statistics on Digg in the form of various tables and charts. It should be noted that if, in terms of originality, Ryan's work loses to the winner of the competition, then the practical application of this API implementation with the “gold” is just silly to compare - Digg City is just a toy. By the way, Digg Charts scored 1730 "diggs", and Ryan Robinson received Adobe CS3 Web Premium Collection and Palm Treo 680 for this.
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Closes the top three runners-up Hut Woolery (Hart Woolery) with his mashup connecting Digg.com and Snap.com - Digg Exposé . The program displays the topics on Digg in the form of miniature images of sites that these topics link to - for this, interaction with Snap.com was required. 1486 people voted for this use of the Digg API. Now Hat Voulari thanks them since they got Adobe Flash CS3 Professional.