Pligg, the popular digg clone cms is for sale

Published at August 13, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   4 Comments  

Pligg the popular digg clone CMS is for sale at sedo. Pligg is a open source software and has seen some tremendous over a few years, people use this to setup digg clones.
Currently Pligg has some 10,000 registered users and the software has been downloaded 60,000 times.
They say all good things must come [...]

Social Bookmarking explained in plain english

Published at August 8, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

The folks at Common Craft who are behind RSS in Plain English came up with a new video which explains social bookmarking for the not so techie audience.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Why spotplex sucks

Published at August 4, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Recently launched news ranking site Spotplex just sucks. Spotplex ranks the stories based on page views and categorizes them.
Look at the spotplex technology section and you will know what i mean. One would expect technology stories on spotplex technology section but to my surprise there are few irrelevant stories (kind of a soft porn), [...]

gleamd: Social People Marking

Published at July 14, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   9 Comments  

gleamd is the new social network in people marking.
What is gleamd ?:
“Users write a short biography or find publicly available information on a person they find to be interesting and submit it to gleamd by clicking “add person” on the menu bar. If others also find that person to be interesting, they can vote [...]

Spotplex: News Ranking Site With a Difference

Published at June 25, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   5 Comments  

Spotplex is a news ranking site like [tag]Digg[/tag], but it is different from Digg. The site is in beta for quite some time and launched public today.
.. you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people [...]

DigaList: Social Voting Meets Lists

Published at June 17, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   4 Comments  

Dig a List is a new site where users can vote on lists submitted by other users. It works in Reddit manner, users submit their favorite lists to the site and others vote those lists up and down.
Lists are collection of tips or tricks or useful tools, for example Top 10 gmail hacks, Top 10 [...]

Social Poster: Submit to Multiple Social Sites at Once

Published at June 5, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   4 Comments  

Social Poster is the easiest and flexible tool to submit content to social sites like digg and reddit.
Social Poster helps you to submit content to multiple social sites quite easily, you dont need to enter title, text and URL at multiple sites. You just simply click the button from your post and add text, [...]

Create your own social bookmarking site with scuttle

Published at May 5, 2007   Filed Under Software, Web 2.0   17 Comments  

Scuttle is a free open source software for creating social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. You can create a social bookmarking site in minutes using scuttle for your personal or for community use. Scuttle code is available from sourceforge.net.
Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API, so you can modify the del.icio.us tools to work with [...]