Wednesday, June 13, 2007

iPhone JavaScript Interface with Digg API

In lieu of an iPhone SDK, we can emulate the interface with JavaScript... this is my one-night proof of concept. If its popular, I'll develop the interface into a class or template. It works best in Safari, of course. Source code is available for download.

Ever Want to Find Great Digg Stories Before They Become Popular?

The [API-Based] Digg Noise Filter lets you filter through the last 500 stories based on minimum # of Diggs so that you can catch the hot stories before they hit the front page. Easily find those stories that are already getting a digg-a-minute or faster!

Half the electricity in a PC is wasted according to Intel, Google

Roughly 50 percent of the power delivered from a wall socket to a PC never actually performs any work, according to Urs Hölzle, Google fellow and senior vice president of operations. Half the energy gets converted to heat or is dissipated in the AC-to-DC conversion. Around 30 percent of the power delivered to the average server is also lost.