{"id":3823,"date":"2011-07-05T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:22:02","slug":"another-app-that-lets-you-digg-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/another-app-that-lets-you-digg-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Another app that lets you digg apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to work out what application will amuse your ADHD for the next fifteen minutes on your smartphone? <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/mobile\/2011\/07\/05\/ribblet-helps-you-discover-mobile-apps-socially\/\">Have a look at Ribblet<\/a>, from Australian Mark Biegel. It takes the app catalogue of Android and iOS and adds a Digg style mechanic of thumbs up and down ratings on top of the list, along with following other users that match your style.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a common problem that people want to address, how to find a good app, and lots of apps out there are hoping to be the nexus, creating both a focal point in the ecosystem, and a point that can easily be monetised. And yet again we return to Cory Doctorow&#8217;s &quot;<em>the biggest problem in the 21st century is not piracy but obscurity<\/em>&quot; phrase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to work out what application will amuse your ADHD for the next fifteen minutes on your smartphone? Have a look at Ribblet, from Australian Mark Biegel. It takes the app catalogue of Android and iOS and adds a Digg style mechanic of thumbs up and down ratings on top of the list, along with following other users that match your style. It seems to be a common problem that people want to address, how to find a good app, and lots of apps out there are hoping to be the nexus, creating both a focal point in the ecosystem,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,606,25],"tags":[2217,648,2499,192],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-android","tag-app-store","tag-discovery","tag-iphone","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-ZF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}