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Digg unveils iPhone beta app

Get ready to fire up your bookmarks ladies and gents, cuz digg just joined the ranks of the iPhone-friendly. On the digg blog this afternoon, Kevin Rose announced that digg.com/iphone has gone live, offering access to some of the site's key features in a slick, iPhone-ized package that runs great on mobile Safari. Users can of course log in and digg, and mini-permalinks as well as top 5 comments on stories are also available. The tailored site even features a slick iPhone-like (or rather: iPod-like) scrolling UI when selecting a story, giving the iPhone version of digg a subtle feeling of running as actual software on the phone.

If you think this is cool, you might be surprised to hear that it was drafted and coded within 48 hours by one of digg's ninjas, Joe Stump. Rose offered Stump an iPhone if he could bang out the code within 48 hours, and as Rose states on the post, he's out one more iPhone. Impressive work for a cool prize.

More features are of course coming (Top Stories is at the top of the list), but users can still browse the main digg site on the iPhone; this customized app is simply a way to streamline the site for just the on-the-go essentials.
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