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Digg-like search result ranking with Lucene / Solr ?

I'm using Solr for search. I have documents that have an integer field "popularity". I want to rank results by a combination of normal fulltext search relevance and popularity. It's kinda like search in digg - result ranking is based on the search relevance as well as how many digs a posting has. I don't have any specific ranking a...

Get Digg count of an URL using Services_Digg2 with PHP

Has somebody usable info on this, It isnt clear if this api is even capable of searching by url, searched trough G, without much success. Some info about new Services_Digg2 pear package: http://digg.com/api/docs/servicesdigg2 ...

Can I buy a Digg-like comment system for asp.net?

I'm looking into integrating a Digg-like comment system into a website with an existing user base. I know there are things out there like Disqus and Intense Debate, that are meant for people to add to their blog, but I want (need) something that I can tightly integrate into my site, with out requiring the user to sign on multiple times....

Create Thumbnail from url like Digg in asp.net/C#

How I can create thumbnail from url. For example: Like Digg website, when I submit a link, Digg for me chose a Thumbnail from any images on that URL. Or like Facebook, when I submit a link, I can chose a thumbnail for that link. So, how i can do that with asp.net/C#. I just want create thumbnail (not Screen Shot of web page) Thanks so...

nosql modeling : howto (digg as an example) ?

Hello, I am trying to grasp this nosql thing since it sounds good for scalability. I have read the Digg is now using CassandraDB. Can you help me understand how a digg-like model can be structured efficiently ? where are the users where are the articles where are the notations .. Thanks Jerome ...

Is there an easy way to generate RSS/Twitter/Facebook/Digg/Delicious/Reddit links/images for tumblr?

I'm looking to generate a bunch of links to add to my tumblr site Planning for Failure for people to share articles on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, etc. I know there are wordpress plugins that do this for you. I've currently added Facebook and Twitter by hand, but I'm guessing there's an easier way to do this. Any ideas? Thanks. ...

A Digg-like rotating homepage of popular content, how to include date as a factor?

I am building an advanced image sharing web application. As you may expect, users can upload images and others can comments on it, vote on it, and favorite it. These events will determine the popularity of the image, which I capture in a "karma" field. Now I want to create a Digg-like homepage system, showing the most popular images. It...

Django Commenting framework and voting

Hello, I want to implement a commenting system for some pages by using the build-in commenting framework of Django. The only addition to the default commenting framework is that other registered users can up/down vote comments (one time allowed indeed), just like Digg or Reddit style. I have found RedditStyleVoting however it seems out...

Posting on Digg using .Net or PHP

Hi, I'm using Digg Api to get stories from digg. But I couldn't find any method to post stories on Digg using that API. Is there any other way to post stories on Digg? ...

facebook or digg sharing, how does it know which part of the story to use as the short summary?

If I am trying to make my site sharable through digg and facebook, can i hard set which section of the page will be used as the short description? thanks ...

How digg retrieve password from facebook? (at Facebook connect)

When I logged into Digg using Facebook account, Digg asked me to create it's own account. I agreed, antered usernae only(!). And after that i have possibility to login into the Digg without Facebook connect. So question is - How Digg Knows My Password? ...

How to extract digg data by digg api

I am trying to extract digg data for a user using this url "http://services.digg.com/user/vamsivanka/diggs?count=25&appkey=34asd56asdf789as87df65s4fas6" and the web response is throwing an error "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden." Please let me know. public static XmlTextReader CreateWebRequest(string url) ...

OAuth Invalid signature issue with Digg

Hi everyone! So I'm trying to authenticate my app to Digg using OAuth (and I'm totally not an OAuth expert). I use the Scribe Java library. I keep on getting the HTTP 401 Authorization Required. Inside the body of the response, it is a 5001 Invalid Signature Error. I have read this Digg Google Groups Thread and I didn't really understa...

How do I find number of submissions of a url in digg??

API documentation in Digg is totally confusing...does any one know how to count submissions for a particular URL in PHP?? some API paths that will return in XML or Json will do... ...

i need to implement solr schema with frequently updated field

I'm using Lucene/solr for searching and navigation in file upload application i need to update the indexed value 'downloaded' for each document for each download. the same case happed in digg.com , they have how many "diggs" for each link while u searching does i have to delete/insert new document for each download. or there something...

creating iframe like digg bar ?

Please guide me how to create a Digg bar like iframe.. example http://digg.com/d31MayA Thanks ...

Reddit / Digg clone on google app engine?

Is anyone aware of a reddit / digg clone software available for google app engine? ...

Applet works when ran from Eclipse, not so well in the browser

Hello everyone, I have a Java applet related problem and I would appreciate your help. Here's the story: I tried creating an applet, that would try to connect to digg.com and by using it's API, show the 100 most popular stories (also include some options to sort and filter the results). Anyway, the applet opens and shows the GUI just fi...

MXHR(dui.stream) will its works without cross browser issue ?

hi anyone worked out with dui.stream & mxhr in your projects i found some demos from digg website but still in cross browser issue i think, so anyone have more idea share with me, Thanxs, Gobi ...

How does digg /facebook get the title of the page and the thumbnail of the image of the link when posted?

How does digg/facebook get the title of the URL posted and the thumbnail of the page in facebook/digg. Can someone explain, how it can be achieved in asp.net or asp. Thanks ...