After my iPhone 3G launch day disaster, I finally got my hands on a black 16GB iphone 3G on Sunday, two days following the initial launch.
After playing around with the new apps and games from the iPhone Apps Store, I found myself mostly using the iPhone 3G for browsing and digging stories on digg.com
Like many people, I loved the iPhone because of its near perfect safari web browser. Even with the lack of flash support, iPhone safari browser is still way superior than any other mobile web browser on the market. Take Digg.com for example. Is there any mobile phone browser that can flawlessly navigate digg.com, submit stories, digg stories, and comment on interesting stories? I don't think so. Getting fed up with the blackberry browser is the main reason I got the iPhone.
After more than a week living the iPhone 3G life, I've found some benefits of the iPhone 3G for the avid digger. The following are some ways iPhone 3G will make you more popular at digg.
Responding to you friends' submissions FAST.
When an average digger submits an article, he/she hopes someone will digg his article as soon as it is submitted. With an iphone in your pocket at all times, you can digg your friends' submissions as soon as they are submitted. Your close friends and not so close friends on digg would be impressed and appreciate that you are always the first few people to avidly responding to their shouts and digging their stories. Your not so close friends will take notice of you and may watch your shouts and submissions more. Responding quickly is a great way of building good relationships on digg who may one day help you if you need an story made popular on digg!
Build your friend network through PUSH emails
It is important to build a friend network on digg that appreciates you. With the iPhone 3G you can make that happen by responding to your friends shouts within 15 minutes! Just make sure the shouts are emailed to you via push gmail or other push mail available to you on the iPhone 3G. With a push of a button on the emails, you can go your friends' stories quickly and conveniently.
More time to go through those hundreds of shouts
For some of you, 300+ shouts per day is a normal daily volume. With your push email notifying your shouts every 15 minutes, you will have more time to go through friends' shouts and actually spending quality time with their stories. Reading, Commenting, and actually digging it. The more sophisticated comment you input, the more diggers will take note of you, and the more popular you will become. Breaking down reading those shouts will make reading those hundreds of shouts a less daunting task.
Add friends who LOVE you!
You can also look for avid diggers who frequently digg their friend's stories and respond to their friends' shouts. Just go to a story that is not all that popular and add those that digg that story as friends. Most times they are avid diggers and good digg friends who respond well to friends' shouts because they want their friends to digg their submissions as well. If you do all this, I bet you will be a popular digger and many will become your fan in hope that you can digg for them too! You digg me, I digg you. That's how a wonderful friendship starts. The more diggers like you, the more likely they will also help you by shouting your submitted stories to their friends, sharing your submitted stories while creating a viral, tidal effect to make your story popular.
Be the first to submit Awesome story
Are you an avid digger who finds the story or url you are submitting have already been submitted by some one else? With an iPhone. You don't have to sit beside your computer to submit a digg. When you are on the go, use RSS feeds or emails on your iPhone to checkout the best new stories and submitting them before any other diggers. This way, you won't miss submitting cool stories even it you are not near a computer. After you submit the story, you can also send a shout to your friends to try to make it popular. The drawback with the iPhone 3G though is the LACK of CUT AND PASTE... How many times have we heard about this... and yes, it is very annoying to submit articles without cut and paste. Apple, firmware update please.
Send shouts multiple times per day away from your computer
Sometimes sending just one shout to your digg friends is not enough. Many diggers gets hundreds or even thousands of shouts per day and they may miss your shout. Thus it may be a good idea to send it 3 to 5 times a day for those friends who didn't see or digg your story. Just try not to send shouts to those that had already digged your story. It is freakin annoying to have the same shout by the same person 5 times a day when you already digged them. Doing that can jeopardize your friendship. To see who dugg your story, just go to your story and select " who dugg it."
iGoogle-Digg integration on the iphone
Check the most popular stories and your friends' activities all on iGoogle on your iphone 3G for convenience and know what's hot on digg, in true digg spirit.
Surf faster
Of course surfing on digg would be a slow, dying pain if you are not on the 3G network. iPhone 3G lets you surf faster and avoid the pain so you can engage in your favorite Digg activities.
Spend more time at digg digging
Ultimately, the iPhone 3G lets the digg fanatic spend more time on digg, at just about anywhere where they can get 3G signal (What a nightmare if you have not 3G signal browsing through Digg). More time on Digg means more diggs, more web knowledge, and becoming more popular. Now do you see how iphone 3G will make you more popular on Digg?
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hey steve, it's michaelwong38 your friend on digg, i'm trying to put together a list of close digg friends who will for sure digg each other's submissions, probably doing it by email instead of shouts because shout diggs aren't worth as much as digg from non-friends. do you think you'd be up for something like that? if yes, pls email me at michaelwong38@gmail.com so i can have your email address and set things up. cheers michaelwong
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