2007

Digg API Contest – As you may have already heard, Digg announced their new API on Thursday, and they’ve immediately launched a contest to get people using it right away. Digg clearly knows their target audience of programmers, as can be seen by the products included in the prize packs they’re offering.

All of the top 10 finalists will get prizes, with a Grand Prize featuring a Falcon Northwest gaming PC, the full catalog of EA PC games, and the Adobe CS3 Master Collection.

Emphasis mine. The total approximate dollar value of the Grand Prize: $8,000 dollars. Second Place: $2,000 dollars. Third: $700

Liberal Arts Majors Get Web 2.0 Revenge – Brian Oberkirch tells us that Web 2.0 services are less about programming and more about storytelling.

Translation, interpretation, immersive textuality, play, masking, distributed communities, nuance, improv, connections: these are all elements of our humanities training and they will serve us exceedingly well as we work on Web stuff.

We all know that programming is what makes these things possible, just like the paper and paint industries give painters tools to create with, but web services are definitely lowering the technical barriers to entry.

Social Strategist,