Comments on: Social News API Wars: Mixx vs. Digg

By: admin

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:54:37 +0000

@NightcrawlerX
Well, the “angles” were really the way the APIs were described and the way most social news sites are used. Just seemed to make sense to me. I hope you liked it.

By: NightcrawlerX

NightcrawlerX — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:49:28 +0000

Interesting choice of angles (submissions, comments, social media, site specific, user information, other goodies) you chose to compare both API.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:08:20 +0000

@Bill

Well, how about that! Thanks for updating that stuff. I have updated the post accordingly.

@Honest Ape, as usual thank you very much.

By: Bill Kocik

Bill Kocik — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:51:23 +0000

“Digg also allows you to get the popular stories within a topic or a container. Mixx does not have that at this point”

Woops - Mixx actually does offer that, we just didn’t do a very good job of telling anyone. In our data categories and tags are the same thing, so you can actually retrieve items from a specific category using our tags service. Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve updated the documentation to describe this behavior.

-Bill Kocik, Mixx.com

By: honest ape

honest ape — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:45:33 +0000

Great article, as usual.

By: Social News API Wars: Mixx vs. Digg | My Geek Solutions

Social News API Wars: Mixx vs. Digg | My Geek Solutions — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:13:18 +0000

[…] Todd Cochrane wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Social Media Sudoku Image by Lukadium via Flickr. You know someone is going to compare the two APIs from Mixx and Digg. I figured I should give it a try as a complete Mixx zealot I have used both APIs recently so I have applicable … […]