Sunday, April 6, 2008

Microsoft Live Search Gains Market Share story hits the front page.

This time it is the Microsoft Live Search Gains Market Share story that hits the front page in 6 hours 52 minutes with 120 diggs total, 93 from friends, 24 comments and 0 buries.

Digg has been buggy since 1st April

Digg has been extremely buggy since 1st April, everybody seems to reason that digg teams April Fool joke has turned back on them. Particularly bad is the the page reload error that keeps popping while digging, shouting, commenting, etc.

Ghost Chair Story : Front Page

Ghost in the Chair Design is Milky not Spooky story hits the front page in 7 hours 52 minutes with 192 diggs total, 141 from friends, 30 comments, 2 buries. This is the second time that I submitted a image story and first story from Gizmodo.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Digg Friends Automatically (Beta) (Removed)


SORRY THE SCRIPT HAS BEEN REMOVED

INSTALL
Digg Friends Automatically is a Greasemonkey Script

Adapted from Digg Friends Easy and Digg Friends Easier. Puts a "digg" button next to every story under /friends/submissions, /history/submissions & /friends/shoutsin/ section and automatically clicks them without user intervention. Automatic clicks can be turned off or restricted to marked friends only. Friends can be marked (-) / unmarked (+) by clicking the button put besides their username on above mentioned pages plus the /friends/view and /friends/befriended pages.



So you been away for the weekend, return home, open up digg and find heaps and heaps of shouts and your friends have submitted a lot more stories in two days than you can digg in 5, what do you do? Digg Friends Automatically (Beta) to the rescue !!!

Digg Friends Automatically (Beta) automatically puts a "digg" it button next to every story on under /friends/submissions, /history/submissions & /friends/shoutsin section and automatically diggs the story if Auto Digging is set ON. Auto Digging can be turned ON/OFF, see usage (a) and (b) below on this page.

But what do you do if you do not want to digg all and sundry but a special few, whom you like and want to make sure that their stories are dugg no matter what!!! With Digg Friends Automatically (Beta) you can mark friends that you want dugg automatically. Just use the "+" button to mark friends as special to be dugg automatically and "-" button to un-mark friends as special. All friends that show "-" button besides their user names will be dugg automatically by the script. To use this feature make sure AutoDigging is ON and Digging : - Friends only, please see usage (c) below on this page.


Author :
DiggBoss
Website : thediggboss.blogspot.com
Email : thediggboss@gmail.com

Credits & Acknowledgements :
Jason Homan - Author :
Digg Friends
Easybobielawlintine - Author : Digg Friends Easier


Download / Install :

Script is available for download or installation from: userscripts.org - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24366


System Requirements : Greasemonkey 0.3 + with a compatible browser installed.

Usage : * Note : Please hover the mouse over newly added elements / buttons to see what it does.
(a) Auto Digging OFF : Only puts a "digg" button besides stories under
/friends/submissions, /history/submissions & /friends/shoutsin section.



(b) Auto Digging ON & Digging All :
Puts a "digg" button besides stories under /friends/submissions, /history/submissions & /friends/shoutsin section and automatically clicks all of them irrespective of who the story has been submitted.



(c) Auto Digging ON & Digging - Friends Only :
Puts a "digg" button besides stories under /friends/submissions, /history/submissions & /friends/shoutsin section and automatically clicks stories submitted by "-" marked friends. All friends that will be dugg automatically under this option will have "-" marked button desides their usernames.

  • Please send comments / suggestions to thediggboss+script@gmail.com


Friday, March 21, 2008

Sarkozy's story hits the front page ...

I must be getting good at this, 5th story in a row to hit the front page. This time it is the Sarkozy cyber spin doctor story to hit the front page, again only in 2 hours 54 minutes, 88 total, 75 from friends.

Google Japan Revamps Homepage story hits front page

4 stories in a row make it to the front page. Google Japan Revamps Homepage story took a long long time, 10 hours 25 mins, 183 total diggs, 149 diggs from friends, 20 comments. Typo in the title was mostly ignored by friends but I am sure there will be harsh words by diggers on front page. Digg.com is a very different place during the night, hardly any diggers. Made a handful of Indian and Romanians friends. They have very interesting things to say. Had fun.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Weird Eyes story hits the front page in 01:32:20 but gets buried in 10 mins

The weird eyes story hit the front page in 1 hour 32 minutes with 63 diggs total, 54 of them from friends and 7 comments. This was the first time i submitted an image as a story on digg, I showed the image to few of my friends, some of them found it weird, others said it was cool but everybody agreed it was digg material, so i went ahead and submitted the image. The image as it turned out was very old which could be confirmed from the harsh comments the story received once it hit the front page. http://www.ajaxonomy.com/buryrecorder/ showed 8 buries in matter of minutes, 4 of them were with in 1 minute. Served me right, lesson learnt, I will never submit an image to digg without knowing its source and age.