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Digg Lite - Digg releases new API, makes it easier to get Dugg
Brandon Davenport
Digg has, on a whim, taken it one step further in terms of making it easier for the little guys to get some credit, and for bigger news sources to expand. Since Digg is a huge news source for over 10 Million people every day, smaller bloggers pray and hope to be "Dugg" thus bringing traffic. Sadly, if your not a huge blog with a-lot of street cred, people don't digg your stuff. But what if you could make it so all your storys and content appear in such a way that people can Digg them. What if you could re-invent Digg?
What is this all about?
Digg has announced that it is revamping its snazzy API so that developers can create better feature-rich applications for the social content-sharing site and write/contribute data using OAuth. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site. While the API is available to everyone free of charge.
Now you can make most of the data on Digg.com available through the API. You can use the API to request very specific information about news stories, images and videos submitted to Digg, digging activity, comments, and users.
Digg has also created a streamlined version of its site called DiggLite using the new API. DiggLite includes a stream of the most popular stories which can be Dugg or buried remotely. Also it can organize stories by top-level categories. The cool part is now you, the developer, can use DiggLite as a framework for creating a new Digg web app. You will be able to download the source code from Github.
Looking Forward
What would be a nice feature is a "Testing playground" for the API, like Facebook has done, just so we can play around with it, without going through all the work to implement it onto our own platform. Maybe this new API could allow us to make our own version of Digg, with our content.
In the last year, Digg faced some non-constructive critisism over the DiggBar. Its nice to see them taking all this power and packaging it so we can wield it, and hopefully not break anything.
Dugg! [via mashable]
