Kevin Rose

Digg iPhone Beta Live!

Last weekend Joe Stump, Daniel Burka, and I sat down and white-boarded the Digg iPhone app. I told Joe if he coded it in 48hrs, I’d buy him an iPhone. Needless to say, he got it done (nice work, Joe).

You can check it out at digg.com/iphone. You need an iPhone or Safari’s Webkit software running to see it working properly.

Here are some features in the iPhone app:

  • Native iPhone-like story scrolling
  • Mini permalink pages with top 5 comments
  • Login and Digging
  • Pagination
  • Jump to any topic

Features Coming:

  • Top Stories (24 hours/7 days)

Of course, you can still browse the normal Digg website on your iPhone, but this web application is a light and fast way to do it and takes advantage of some of the iPhone user interface.

Let us know if you find any bugs. We’ll continue tweaking over the next few weeks, but wanted to get it out there asap.

Big thanks to Joe Hewitt for the initial javascript as well as the jQuery team for their help.

Digg on,

Kevin