Marc Köhlbrugge

I’ve always used about:blank as my home page because I don’t want to load a whole website everytime I open up a new browser window. This approach worked pretty well but the one thing I didn’t like about it is the fact the about:blank page is completely white and I wanted it to be black. I find it easier on the eyes.

So hereby I announce Oozd.com, The About:Blank Alternative. Just suffix oozd.com/ with the color you like to use and you have your own colorful about:blank. Some examples:

• oozd.com/black (my favorite)
• oozd.com/red
• oozd.com/c0ffee

Oozd supports normal english color names (e.g. red) and hexidecimal values (e.g. f00 and ff0000). Support for RGB (e.g. 255,0,0) is coming soon as some other features will.

Today Digg released their API:

The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site.

I had a quick look at the API documentation and it looks like the API is pretty well-designed. The available information is pretty slick too.

I’m planning on experimenting with it this weekend so expect some Digg related tools soon!