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Diggwatcher - digg notifications
by Jason Clarke Jun 11th 2007
So you've submitted a page to digg, and are frantically waiting to see if your opinion is deemed worthy by the teeming swarm of digg users. What do you do? Well, you could frantically refresh the dig page you submitted, hoping to notice it changing over time, or you could outsource this work to the Diggwatcher. Created by Gary Carstensen using the recently released digg API, Diggwatcher allows you to enter a digg story URL to be monitored. The web application will then play sounds whenever the story is dugg, commented on, or is deemed popular. The sound files used are configurable, but the defaults are fun - a guitar chord for a digg, a bell-like alert for comments, and an air horn and rabid cheering for achieving popular status.
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