Is this the thing that will destroy Digg?

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1. Art says

   January 5, 2007 at 1:50 am

   Pligg is not new, but it’s truly a clone – it can be used for verticals but doesn’t add anything to the model established byt Digg. Digg succeeded because it created a *different* alternative to Slashdot. If you want something to do the same to Digg it would have to offer something different. Yet, note that Digg didn’t kill Slashdot, and so I don’t think something’s going to come and ‘kill’ Digg.

   Keep an eye on corank.com (yes, I’m involved with the project)

2. lyndonantcliff says

   January 5, 2007 at 4:23 pm

   Hi Art, could you give a bit more info about corank.com, sounds interesting.

3. Toivo Lainevool says

   January 5, 2007 at 7:17 pm

   I do believe that industry specific sites will put a significant dent in Digg’s growth this year. I have launched my own SEO focused social news site: SEOYak.com.

4. dvg says

   January 5, 2007 at 8:53 pm

   No, Pligg is not “the thing that will destroy Digg”.

   Pligg and other Digg clone packages have been available for almost a year now and Digg seems to be doing just fine.

5. Frank Williams says

   January 6, 2007 at 1:48 am

   Check out VoFiles.com. It’ s using Pligg for voting on social networking profiles.

6. Mike says

   January 6, 2007 at 4:30 am

   Hi Guys

   Could you add this one for the SEO community who are very tired of the DIGG mentality (they accuse Diggers of being adolecent tech smart arses,

   Have a look at our freshly launched site http://www.search4geeks.com

   Thanks

   Mike Nicholls
   Sydney

7. Gabe says

   January 6, 2007 at 6:31 am

   Please add http://www.pickstation.com to your list of Pligg sites. It’s an interesting use of the pligg cms as a collaborative music podcast.

8. pramit says

   January 6, 2007 at 10:28 am

   Great article and a useful list. Keep it up.

   Mediavidea writes about creating a Digg of Diggs.
   What do you think?
   http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2007/01/creating-digg-of-diggs.html

9. lyndonantcliff says

   January 6, 2007 at 11:31 am

   I think Digg has rich veins of content ready to be mined.

   Rather than a digg of Digg, I see more verticals tacked on to current communities, such as a Playstation Digg clone tacked onto a Playstation blog.

10. Jeff says

    January 6, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Here’s a Pligg for China Tech News:

    Chinamemes.com – Observing China’s Digital Revolution:

    http://www.chinamemes.com

11. Bruno says

    January 6, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    Would you please add also Pligg.it

    Pligg.it is an italian Pligg site with AdSense Revenue Sharing System

12. high-quality-links says

    January 6, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    We’re jumping on the band wagon as well with our reciprocal blog commenting and article link sharing Social Networking site.

    Social networking is good quality and probably the best way to go when it comes to internet and any other type of marketing.

    Being an old timer, I have trouble navigating the new social networking sites. They’re just too much to handle some time. It’s nice to deal with smaller boutique directories if possible.

    As Digg and others get too big they will definitely run into alot of competition. We’re hoping to grab a little of their pie.

13. Robert says

    January 6, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    digga.se was the first Pligg site to be launched in Sweden (in July last year).

    It was recently updated with a new design.

14. Solomon Rothman says

    January 7, 2007 at 12:54 am

    Love the resource list. I don’t believe digg is in any danger of being destoryed even from any army of clones. In the fast past world of internet technology, many people are looking for anything they consider to be “genuine.” Because digg was the first social media site besides de.li.cious to come into mainstream consciousness it will probably be viewed as more “genuine” and the other competitors as cheap knock offs for awhile to come. They have such a following in the young male / tech audience that have already staked a claim in the digg community.

15. Anonymous says

    January 7, 2007 at 9:35 am

    Slashdot started the first news discussion site and the idea of using points or a ‘thumbs-up’ from users is not an invention of Digg’s alone. Reddit, for example, independently came up with the same idea during its start (see Techcrunch interview with the founders). Besides, being the first to do something or being “genuine” doesn’t mean much in the marketplace. Facebook and Friendster are similar and Friendster came first.

16. lyndonantcliff says

    January 7, 2007 at 11:07 am

    Solomon, thanks.

    I’m not so sure that Digg will not be destroyed, and maybe destruction is too strong a word.

    Although I think it is more in danger of destruction by being bought by a bunch of Corporate suits in some merger/aquisistion frenzy than niche Digg clones chipping away at Diggs verticals.

    But look, if the Xbox is your passion you are more likely going to hang at an Xbox Digg clone than at Digg itself and have to wade through the detritus of Playstation and Wii posts.

    Advertisers equally prefer a site that is more targeted. Last time I was on Digg it was advertising Northern Cyprus property.

    In this age of the long tail where it takes someone like me a matter of 30mins to get a niche Digg clone up and running it makes the Digg model look a little weak.

    What if the top digger of Xbox stories decided to set up an Xbox digg and told all his friends. Possibly pursuaded other Xbox diggers to join him and not get lost amongst the noise.

    Should Digg start it’s own verticals? If it does it weakens the centre, which is its’ base.

    The more I research this sector the more fascinating it is and the more convinced I need to write a follow up post with a more in depth analysis.

    The oppurtunity that social bookmarking offers the marketer and the SEO is huge and mostly ignored by the mainstream of the SEO crowd and sniffed at by the old timers (myself included until recently).

17. www.mozzaek.com says

    January 7, 2007 at 11:21 pm

    http://www.mozzaek.com is also a good one using Pligg CMS.

18. Helmut says

    January 8, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    Check out snatchideas.com , it has different approach to digg style thingee 😉

19. fez says

    January 10, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    There are also social news/video/etc gathering sites out there that are not using Pligg, and therefore don’t like being called “clones”, even though they share some inspiration from digg/delicious/etc.

    Check out:
    UmmYeah.com – video / funny links social aggregation site
    Alexa 28k as of today.

    Powered by Ruby on Rails.

20. lyndonantcliff says

    January 10, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    fez

    There certainly are sites that are not Pliggs and not really based on Digg clones. The reason I call them Digg clones is one of lazyness, I can’t think of anything else to call them.

    If you know of a better term than Digg Clone I would love to hear it and maybe use it.

    I know an accurate term is social voting networks, but it just doesn’t roll off the tongue, know what I mean.

    I know people may get offended, but isn’t that just political correctness gone mad?

    I always feel disapointed if I havn’t offended at least one person a day 😉

21. Aaron says

    January 11, 2007 at 12:21 am

    “But it?s the only metric I can get my hands on” in reference to Alexa.com… I think compete.com has a pretty strong thing going on over there.. still seems skewed. but has some handy features..

    Digg is a tough nut to crack, massive.. there will be alot of meganiche spawns that could do fine with the Digg model.. however it’s usually the first oen in that dominates and digg just keeps getting stronger

22. reggy says

    January 11, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Maybe have a look at securegg.com – it’s an it security news aggregation site digg style – could be realley usefule for the future to get the right amount of right information to the right time 😉

23. Feeds says

    January 16, 2007 at 1:22 am

    Seems to me that a lot of these sites are still catering to tech related topics. I don’t think they will succeed as well as digg, but who knows. On the other hand, digg-type sites exploiting a niche not catered too by digg might do very well, for instance, bloodee.com (dedicated to horror – no horror content on digg) or Prayer Depot.

24. Feeds says

    January 16, 2007 at 1:23 am

    But of course only time will tell.

25. favester says

    January 31, 2007 at 4:25 am

    Here is another one:

26. mossiwo says

    June 9, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Just launched, hope you guys check it up, Yample, Social Listings

27. ryanca says

    July 3, 2007 at 8:23 am

    A pligg clone for travel news media.

28. inmymemo says

    August 1, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Inmymemo is a new social obituary aggregator, powered by Pligg. Take a look!

29. WomanSeeks says

    August 30, 2007 at 12:22 am

    The Digg has crossed overcritical number of users. No other aplication can defeat him on this battlefield.

30. Jean says

    October 11, 2007 at 1:42 am

    Well, a new one made with Pligg about green news…

    http://www.zegreen.com/

31. Manish Pandey says

    November 18, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    Great list!

    I’ve also accumulated few of them on my blog, I hope you like the collection.

32. jlo says

    June 24, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    There can be only one list of digg clone sites. And that must be made as a digg clone site; Here it is : http://www.clonesattack.com/