TechCrunch reported today about the <a href="http://digg.com/contest">Digg API Visualization Contest</a>which was held to celebrate the release of the <a href="http://apidoc.digg.com/">Digg API</a>.

As TechCrunch stated (and I couldn&apos;t have worded it any better:
"Four of the ten finalists are <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo">Adobe Apollo</a> based applications, remarkable for a platform launched just over 2 months ago."

To be fair to TechCrunch, I don&apos;t want to cut and paste everything in the article but I will say that it certainly shows the viability of Apollo for providing desktop applications using tried and true web technologies. I don&apos;t see Apollo supplanting traditional desktop platforms such Microsoft&apos;s .Net coupled with Visual Studio/C#/VB etc but it is good to see an alternative to bring web apps to the desktop.

Read more about this here:
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/25/digg-api-visualization-contest-delivers-apollo-powered-applications/">Digg API Visualization Contest Delivers Apollo Powered Applications</a>