I always wonder is there is any way we can crack the algorithm of how a story is promoted in DIGG.com by looking at each user profiles who digging the story and how many story they submitted, their success criteria, which part of the world they are from and what time they are digging it etc. I wrote a simple prototype application in Flex (Also i want to try Flex for first time), to collect these statistics to find out a pattern. But long way to go.
The application is here , and this is the way it works.
1. Get a URL of a story which you wanted to track for how it get promoted. The url can be Digg URL or actual story url. (For eg- for each story Digg assign a url based on the category it is submitted).
2. Go to beoue.com tool here, www.beoue.com
3. Type the url in the text box given
4. Hit the “Get DIGG Stats” button.
5. Wait for few minutes, the Graphs start building up and the user details start falling down in chronological way how the story was digged.
At this point of time, This tool collect the story details and user profile details who digged the story using DIGG APIs
- Number of users who digged it
- Each users Popularity Ratio (This is computed in a recursive way to find out how many times each user’s stories are promoted vs how many story they submitted).
- The time it is submitted.
- Each users friends count. And DIGGed user is friend of the submitter or not.
These values are collected in a recursive and plotted as graphs against multiple parameters.
Try www.beoue.com and leave your comments here about the tool. I used Flex Builder 2, with Action Script 3 to build this application. Flex is pretty good technology for left brain people to create creative Flash application (I am not sure which part of the brain dominates me always…. some time left and some time right, i guess).
Graphs Explained
Chart 1. User Popularity Ratio (No of Story Promoted / No of Story Submitted by a particular user) VS User.
Chart 2. Popularity Ratio multiplied by number of stories submitted VS User
Chart 3. Total Story Submitted by Each user
Issues and bugs in this tool.
1. Submit URL of only promoted stories (Stories which become popular).
2. To run second time, refresh the page again.
3. Still not added GEO profile chart of the users.
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