Digg In the Future 54
jamie writes "A new site called Digg In The Future - created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project - says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. (Does it allow for brigades?)"
Re:In a self-fulfilling prophecy... (Score:4, Informative)
It looks at data after the fact. That is, who shared it, who diggs it, the frequency it is shared, etc. Thus it couldn't predict where itself would end up, at least not until after it was posted, which would be too late.
It's not like a Slashdot comment that says it will be moderated +5, Informative.
it's dead jim (Score:4, Informative)
I assume it'll be a lot less stories. The new digg revamp is absolutely terrible. It's impenetrable. Most of the useful features before are gone, it's half broken, with comments not loading, or links to your own comments not working. It shows you basically none of the information it showed you before, the new main feed is completely out to lunch. Apparently the "most recent" story on digg was submitted 2 days ago, and I know I saw it on the front page yesterday since they busted it. So digg is telling me since the upgrade, no one has made any story popular.