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What The Hell Went Wrong With Digg 4?

The new digg4 is plagued with scores of problems and the VP of engineering just got fired. What is your take on what went wrong? ...

Is Captcha needed even if users are forced to login to post?

I've been working on this site - I used the phpdug script to help me get a quick start. I assumed that if I forced users to login in order to post links in this digg-like website, there would be no need for a captcha. This has not worked as you can see all of the car spam. Is a captcha necessary even if I force users to login? Also, ...

Create button like Digg button

I am building a news aggregator. How can I create button/ widget like Digg button or Facebook Share button that web developer can embed in their own website. When their users click on that button, it can trigger some function that interact (eg: voting or display vote amount) with my server. Thank you. ...

Number of Tweets and Likes for any URL?

Hi, I'm building a cool app that needs to check the number of "tweets", "shares" and "diggs" each URL in a feed has an then arrange them according to the number of "tweets" etc... Any ideas on how this can be done? It shouldn't be that hard, but I cant figure it out =) Checkout www.babblr.me , they have a similar solution. How did the...

GET the number of tweets, likes and diggs for any given URL?

Hi, I'm building a simple app that should count the number of tweets, shares/likes and diggs for any given URL. The URL could point to a blogpost, news article, etc. I know that Facebook has this FQL command to retrieve the amount of likes for any given URL: SELECT like_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="any url..."; Thanks! ...