Digg - Swarming the thought

Did you ever wish to read minds of other people? And ever want to know how its feel like? Well Digg Lab shows some interesting applications that resemble the feeling of reading other people thought, well sort of.

If you are new to this, Digg is free an online social bookmark service. What it does is allowing any user to submit a story complete with the URL link, title and short description and save it into their server. Other Digg member (Digger) would cast a vote for any story that they like and they call it Dig It, and if they don't like it they just Burry It.

In Digg Swarm, any new story will keep pouring into the screen and shows who Digg the story in every second. Digg Swarm draws a circle for stories as they're dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow. Brightly colored (yellow) stories indicates more diggs.


If you feel that you can't keep up with the info, you can turn to Digg Stack which much organize like a stack of story. Digg Stack shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. It also allows user to pause the stack movement and a lever to control the stack size.

The project are the results of collaboration with Digg partner Stamen Design. Once matured they will published the API to allow outside developers access to this data.

I like the fact of not knowing what’s going on in someones’ head. If I knew life would be boring, it’s the hoping, the wondering, the guessing that makes life interesting. It keeps me on my toes.