Digg for iPhone released ~ we celebrate with 2 weeks of iPad awesomeness!
A little over a year ago, I posted about my 2009 Macworld Expo trip. In that post, I mentioned that we paid a casual visit to the Digg offices and had lunch with Kevin Rose. What I didn’t mention was that during that lunch the idea was tossed around about us doing the official Digg app.
Without a doubt, Digg has greatly contributed to our success since our stuff has hit the Digg front page so many times over the years. We’re all big fans of Digg here, so the opportunity to actually work on something like this was one we simply couldn’t pass up, even though we basically always turn down any 3rd-party work that comes our way (we’d just rather work on our own apps).
Well, a lot of time has passed between then and now, and to make a long story short regarding its development… we’re really excited to announce today that the Digg app is finally available for your iPhone and iPod touch!
It’s available for free so you have no excuse not to snatch it up right now.
Here’s the official announcement from Digg about the app:
http://about.digg.com/blog/announcing-diggs-iphone-app
A team effort
A lot of people here worked really hard on this app. Scott had a vision for the app and oversaw all of its creation. The team he led consisted of the marvelous Wolfgang Bartelme and David Lanham on design, while Oliver Cameron, John Eddie and the newest member of our team, Devin Ross, coded it all up. To round things out, Phill and I threw in our 2¢ here and there on UI and design issues.
Be sure to visit our About page for details on all of our team members.
2 weeks of iPad awesomeness!
To celebrate the launch of the app, we’re giving out 14 custom, limited edition iPads pimped-out by ColorWare. One per day over the next two weeks…
We hope you enjoy the Digg app. We put in a ton of time on it trying to make it as great as we could.
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Ryan Bollenbach
1:01pm, March 25, 2010
I really love the app
it’s going to add some fun to my bus ride 
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Mark
1:05pm, March 25, 2010
Dig it! Off to app store now, congrats on the release!
Marshall Haas
1:13pm, March 25, 2010
Always inspired by the giveaways you guys come up with. Props
Daniel Essex
2:34pm, March 25, 2010
Those are some nice looking iPads!
Daniel Essex
2:34pm, March 25, 2010
PS: Greetings from bonnie Scotland
michael tejada
7:21pm, March 25, 2010
love the app. great job.
Pip
7:24pm, March 25, 2010
iPads are awesome! You got yourselves iPad ready versions?
Wes
7:26pm, March 25, 2010
Love the app and can’t wait for updates to address the bugs. On a side note, I feel the digg and bury buttons should be reversed. I’ve accidentally buried articles I wanted to digg, but I can’t undo it.
Thanks for the app, and at the price of free, you can’t beat it!
[[dbalieiro]]
7:37pm, March 25, 2010
#thanks [;)]
Staton Richardson
8:23pm, March 25, 2010
Definitely a must have app for my iTouch
Braden Douglass
8:37pm, March 25, 2010
You guys need a lot of thank, back pats, along with a lot of free beer. Thanks for being a consistently amazing iPhone dev. Can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeve for the iPad. Thanks, again!
Jason Rogers
8:39pm, March 25, 2010
Man have I been waiting for DIGG app!
Slane1
8:50pm, March 25, 2010
I prefer the web site over your new app because I can read in landscape.
Eric Q.
9:08pm, March 25, 2010
very cool.. love DIGG and this will make it much more enjoyable.
Mike Sutton
9:56pm, March 25, 2010
Would truly enjoy an I-Pad
Craig
10:34pm, March 25, 2010
Lots of cocoa errors 134??? I can’t remember the full #
Jimmy Blanco
10:35pm, March 25, 2010
Ipad! For real! With the Digg App preinstalled! For real!
See all the !!!!!!!!s
I used to use the iPhone app Shovel to read Digg, but now this what Ive been waiting for.
Buenas Suertes a Todos!
Bob
10:38pm, March 25, 2010
Argh, why is iPhone OS 3.1 required? Does it use the augmented reality additions? Please add support for 3.0 – I’m sure it’ll work just fine on it as-is.
Leland
11:08pm, March 25, 2010
Reading digg on the iPad will be pure Internet awesomeness. I think I will cry… wait, did I actually just say that? no, I am just thinking about crying. ; )
Mike
1:05am, March 26, 2010
No landscape view? No way to open the a link in Safari? No Instapaper integration?!?
Lame.
Ammar Awaad
5:48am, March 26, 2010
Been fan of all Tap Tap apps. The first thing I did when I bought my iPhone was to see if there was a Digg app. 3 yrs later my prayers have been answered! Thanks!
Betweenus
10:53am, March 26, 2010
I love this app I again have been given something let’s me break away from my desktop.
Jacob G.
12:27pm, March 26, 2010
Thanx for the app I(Digg) it!!!..xD
Dan Birlem
1:12pm, March 26, 2010
Great app, great user interface. I love the attention to detail and appreciation of good UI design akin to Gowalla or other up and coming iPhone apps. Good work, y’all!
MadMax135
1:27pm, March 26, 2010
This totally kicks ass!
Awesomeness….
Richard
1:45pm, March 26, 2010
The Ipad is a really interesting device with the awesome revolutionary features of the iphone but of course Apple had took take it to the next step in technology and make this large screen so versatile and easy to use. I cant live without my Iphone and I’m sure that is how everyone will feel about their Ipad
Doug
2:10pm, March 26, 2010
How are you giving these away now, when they are not even come out yet.
Where is yesterday’s winner….name is still blank?
Craig Seeman
2:21pm, March 26, 2010
The app is so nice
ChrstphrWlk
3:03pm, March 26, 2010
Digg app is awesome!
cucumba
3:48pm, March 26, 2010
Seems like a great light app.
Eddie Larwyck
3:49pm, March 26, 2010
Great apps. It’s clean and smooth. Thanks a lot.
Marius
5:44pm, March 26, 2010
I love it!
ZeTaBYTeS
8:07am, March 27, 2010
…and where’s Convert 2.0? :’(
Kathy Luman
2:20pm, March 27, 2010
I could really digg an ipad.
claudia M
12:20am, March 28, 2010
thanks for the chance ! Great apps.
Zzzaineee
1:51am, March 30, 2010
This free iPad prize to celebratingof launch the digg app is very very smart thing to do . It is my dream to win one and I think it’s evry body dream to have one
Zzzaineee
2:25am, March 31, 2010
Can any one out of the US enter the contest to win an iPad
Dot Sandman
12:30pm, March 31, 2010
Thank you for the chance to have one!
Jennifer P
3:15pm, April 1, 2010
I Like the website Best
Ty for a great chance to win an Ipad!!!
Scott Carter
10:36pm, May 9, 2010
Digg app is cool!