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Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

DJ Equipment — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:48:14 -0000

yes, the digg is good. but i not like use it.thank you for the article

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

alojamentoweb — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:28:21 -0000

Didn't Netscape try something like this a few years ago? "Experts" aggregating news or some such. Seems to have gone tits up.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

gokhan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:26:43 -0000

www.diggtr.com is the place to share your favorites and to communicate with others that share your interests.You are the editor and if your story is popular it will be published on the front page.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Zhasper — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:18:50 -0000

Boing-boing, much?

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Joe Lazarus — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:25:21 -0000

Dave, thought you would be interested in this news in case you haven't already seen it...

http://mashable.com/2007/12...

Pligg, the Digg clone software company, is about to release a service that lets anyone build their own Digg clone without programming skills.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

jgraziani — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:30:52 -0000

This makes me smile -- even chuckle. I can imagine Ben Franklin discussing the same thing with the contemporaries of his day. It was called a newspaper back then. Everything old is new again. Best wishes for wonderful success -- I mean that sincerely.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Doug Hellmann — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:06:49 -0000

The next step would be to build a site to allow *multiple* communities to do this. You, Steve, Om, and Scoble are interesing to some people, but another group would be more interesting to others.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Leon Atkinson — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:24:20 -0000

I built the very thing you're talking about in 1998 for Clear Ink. The site was called The Link Conservatory. At the time I thought of it as a clone of Yahoo where the editors were the employees of our company. You can see captures of it in the Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/...

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Anton Mannering — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:13:27 -0000

I agree absolutely with this idea. I started Luddity about a month ago as a way of keeping up to date with tech news by using the idea that the group of people I know in the tech community in Ireland all live in different spaces and thus would bring the news that they are interested in and the community could vote on it's relevance etc. I for instance am focused on social networking and online media. Another friend is working with mobile technology. I'm interested in what's going on in that space but can't track everything. This way we all benefit from a community with a certain level of expertise. I reckoned it could work with a communtiy of less than a hundred. Good luck with it anyway as I believe you're on to something. But I thought of it first... LOL

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Rick Burnes — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:37:56 -0000

I like this idea. I'll be interested to see how it crystallizes.

Also, I'm surprised Digg hasn't done anything similar. Seems like they could by opening up their platform a bit more, no? Why aren't they going in this direction?

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Ujj — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:52:39 -0000

Spot on. Could'nt agree more with the fact that digg is becoming more and more difficult to dig through. I usually spend more time sieving through articles than reading them.

Just one point though, arent you talking about a collective link blog of people like yourself, Scoble, Fred Wilson, Steve Rubel, Amyloo, Jim Posner, Lawrence Lee?

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

FCrew — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:12:14 -0000

"I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."

That's exactly what coRank (www.corank.com) does, Dave. The service has been covered all over the place (@ TechCrunch several times, R/W Web, Mashable...). I think you were the only one left! :-)

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Shayan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:45:13 -0000

Hi Dave, I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and am a very big fan of yours. I also had a Digg clone in mind and did extensive research on it... I never went ahead with my idea, but if there is anything I can help you with please let me know. I would be more than glad to help (@ no cost :))
shayan [at] dineorwine.com

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

kid mercury — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:51:33 -0000

hey dave, i missed your original post. i'd love to build a community for you -- in fact it's exactly what i've been working on. check out my blog and you'll see what i'm talking about. i'm shooting you an email as well.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Jeremy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:37:14 -0000

I just did a write up on this very subject today and then found this article. I miss digg. What we have now is the college drunken party version of a once respectable website. I've lost my passion for posting, reading and commenting there. I'd love to see a site that was like it was back then. Something where pertinent information can be found without having to sort through the hundreds of LOLcat pictures and Will it Blend videos. Where I can feel like I am part of a community and not an outsider looking in on a self implosion waiting to happen.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Philippe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:32:44 -0000

@salman - No, I'm not really working on this but the site I created -blogrunner.com- uses this concept - its the web remixed and ranked by the web.

@alexh - digg is mashable but to accomplish what you want you'd have to map digg ids to twitter ids

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

JG — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:54:10 -0000

We'd count on the judgement of these people to find us interesting news items, and be fair in deciding their relevance.

This sounds very Andrew Keen, or Nick Carr. And very anti-Web 2.0. Isn't the idea behind "Wisdom of Crowds" the notion that, as the crowd grows, the wisdom grows with it? If the opposite is true, that doesn't say very much for this O'Reilly Web 2.0 notion.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Anil Dash — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:42:53 -0000

This is one of the reasons we built the Community Solution for Movable Type (See http://movabletype.com/prod... ), because we were thinking along similar lines -- people need to be able to create small or constrained communities of interest, complete with all the features (voting/rating, profiles, etc.) that people expect from the other social sites they're using.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Arnþór Snær — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:46:42 -0000

If I'm not mistaken, there are no groups in delicious + the ui leaves something to be desired. I use delicious alot myself.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

AlexH — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:29:15 -0000

Phillipe, I was thinking about the exact same thing.

How mashable is Digg itself? Do they provide an API where I could filter out the vote, and only show things that people in my Twitter list have dugg?

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:48:14 -0000

Yes, Pligg is excellent. It's an open-source (PHP based) system for creating Digg clones. It has a neat optional module that lets you create new articles from RSS feeds, which helps to get a site going when there are not many submissions.

I got a site up in about 2 hours, starting from nothing.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Mark Evans — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:04:05 -0000

It's an interesting concept as a way for a small group of individuals to create something that meets their specific individual needs. The question is whether it would have staying power with a small group of supporters/users. The other issue is what happens if this service becomes so good that others start clamoring to be included? Would you keep it small or expand and risk being the victim of your own success. Nevertheless, this is the kind of project that could become more prevalent as people look to create their own personalized versions of online services.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Salman FF — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:01:42 -0000

Philippe - I think the direction you are pointing towards is exactly right. Further, if we could 'own' (or control) the data around our explicit votes and our implicit attention, and syndicated it, any one could create a micro-digg based on their chosen community... and slide and dice those micro-diggs any way they wanted. Are you working on anything like this?

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

greg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:11:15 -0000

Dave, good to see you are still "Digging"

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

RacerRick — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:06:25 -0000

A couple of folks use a very specific tag on delicious to bookmark articles, pages, posts, etc for each other. Each suggested link is supposed to have a synopsis (in the delicious description) so that it's not necessary to visit the page.

We took the delicious rss feed and made it into one big webpage.

It's a hack, but it works kinda like you are talking about - no voting, though.