Here’s a thought: Digg’s supposed to be a social book marking site, right? You know, with all the mob-minded stuff you can think of. And Del.icio.us is ALSO a social book marking site. My Del.icio.us links are quite many in number, but they don’t come CLOSE to my diggs. Also, digg isn’t NEARLY as good for ordering bookmarks and such. It doesn’t support tagging, to me it’s search feature is clunky, you can’t (as far as I can tell) send an article to a friend like you can with del.icio.us, and a few other small things. Del.icio.us, on the other hand, doesn’t have the community rating of digg, nor does it have the sheer magnitude of patrons that digg does. Two different people, two solutions to the same problem. I propose a unified solution.

Originally, my solution required a large roll of duct tape, a stick of chewing gum (not that Bubble Tape crap, either), and three young ducklings. However, not having two out of three items (hey, every man worth his salt has duct tape, right?), I decided to be more practical. And so I came up with an idea I like to call digg.licio.us. A mash-up in the grandest sense!

I said to myself “Me, how could I best go about getting my diggs del.icio.usified?” Operationally, that is (the programming would be another story; I’m thinking PHP or C#). “Well,” said me “you’d want everything you dugg to be posted to del.icio.us, right? And you’d clearly want it tagged. Also, you’d likely want to mark it as coming from digg. Oh, and you’d wanna bookmark the article itself, as opposed to the digg page (though you’d want to include a link to the digg page in the notes of the del.icio.us bookmark). And one last thing, self: You’re not going to want it to require manual tagging (though it can be an option), so just use del.icio.us’s recommended tags for the link and maybe add the tag ‘dugg’, just to satisfy the ‘mark as from digg’ requirement”. “Whew!” I said to myself, “I’m long winded!”

Of course, I’m sure there are problems with this, but I think on the whole it would be a good system. It would bring people to digg (everyone loves Web 2.0, don’t ‘cha know), it would bring diggers to del.icio.us (I’d have a HECK of a lot more use for it), and it would better index some of the COOLEST information on the internet. Implementation SHOULD be easy. Digg provides a great RSS feed (many in fact, but the important one here is the on for stuff I’ve dugg ), and I’m told that del.icio.us has a VERY easy to use API, so if there’s a program in the middle parsing the XML file from digg and spitting it out in a del.icio.us friendly format, it should work like a charm.

So, who out there is comfortable enough in PHP to make this happen? I’m just getting my PHP legs, and I’m still a bit wobbly.

Here’s a neat little game I found on Digg:

MotherLoad Use your digger to excavate as much ore as possible

Play this free game now!!

It’s a neat little game about digging down to get to the sweet, delicious ore. Mmm… Ore…… Arrgghh…………….

Anyway, here’s a screen capture below. I think you should go check out the game NOW! It’s pretty cool.

You can digg it here. And of course, just go Here to play the game itself!

Tags: +Peer 2 Peer+; +Technology+

OK, so it’s just a 0.10 alpha release, but IT WORKS (for me, at least). It’s a bright-net concept that relies on the untested belief that (in abstract) while someone could copyright the car (program) you built out of Lego’s (bits and bytes), and someone else could copyright a Lego duck, they can’t both copyright the Lego pieces on their own.

Go and download the wonderful program here (direct link):
EDIT: Most recent version is 0.10.03, not .02. Fixed, thanks Earsausage!
http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/installers/OFFSystem-0.10.03.exe

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Tags: +E3+; +Games+

DUDE! Sony just revealed their New Controller, and it’s a total rip off of the Wii Controller. It’s got “6 degrees of motion” which means it can detect pitch, yaw, and roll. Pfftt. It’s a BAD implimantation of what the Wii can do. Check out the Digg Post on the matter to see more info on it.

And the part about a 360 rip? They’ve got a “PS3″ button right where the “Live” button is on the 360 controller. I’m sorry, but that’s just sad. More so when you realize that Sony bashed Nintendo for their use of Motion Senseing as “Gimicky” last year.

They might just as well have called it the PS36ii. But hey, that’s just what I think. What I wanna know is what do YOU think? Then we know what Wii think, and that’s what matters.

Tags: +Technology+; +Narcipost+; +Digg+

Cool! Google put up it’s new geoci… er, Google Pages site! So, of course, I HAD to make one, just to see how it was.

I’m impressed. It’s the best WYSIWYG web-based html editer I’ve ever seen. Go Google!

Check it out. I think you might need a gmail account to try it, but if so, just leave a comment, I’ll hook you up.

Sound interesting? Just digg it.