Five ways to get a Digg/Reddit clone

Posted by multippt

If you love Digging (or redditing) to the point that you simply must have your own personalized “Digg” site, this article is here to help you do that. An added bonus - the full installation steps are in this article as well, so you don’t really need to read the instruction manual to get your Digg clone running.

#1 Pligg - Digg

Pligg is the closest you can ever get to Digg, except perhaps the interface (but you could always make one up right?). Currently the most popular CMS under social bookmarking, Pligg is used numerous entreprening site owners. Pligg also supports anonymous voting, perhaps one element that Digg cannot offer (yet).

The 10 minute install guide to Pligg (assuming you have your web host ready):
1) Download Pligg, install it to where you want it to be. Make these directories writable (CHMOD 777) otherwise some features might not be available: backup, cache, templates, templates_c, avartars
2) Go to the installation page (i.e. http:// yourpliggsite /install/) and follow the instructions on the installer
3) If you done it right, Pligg would be installed within 5 minutes. You can then log in using your own password.
4) Go to the administration panel (link is at the top panel) and browse/tinker with the options available.

While Pligg may be still in beta, it is fairly stable and usable. There might still be some glitches though, but chances are it is fixed with every update. Fortnately, Pligg is in active development and a final release may come out at any time.
Rating: 9/10
Sites using Pligg: Sphinn

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Social bookmark generator - Drag and drop

Posted by multippt

Here’s a nice social bookmark generator that no one else has made (yet). This bookmark generator, as its name implies, generates social bookmarks for use in your site. Currently, it supports wordpress only.

In order to customize your bookmarks, simply drag and drop. You can rearrange the bookmarks or remove them. The bookmarks can also be organised into rows. Afterwards, click on the “Generate Bookmarks Buttons” in order to generate the bookmarks.

Unlocking Thresholds - Social Bookmarking

Posted by multippt

It is great to know how many votes/digg/whatever… you need in order to get your story upfront. After all, it is great for planning right?

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Migrating from Digg to Sphinn

Posted by multippt

Sphinn is a great social bookmarking site, similar to Digg. This is your one-off travel guide for migrating from Digg to Sphinn.

What is Sphinn?
If you know Digg, you can say Sphinn is Digg (their names are similar too). Like Digg, you vote for stories, which act as a sort of “online bookmark”, and submit them in the same way as Digg. Although Sphinn caters more for webmasters, any sort of topic works fine in Sphinn. This is unlike Digg, which although it is said that they won’t mind what topic is being talked about, the community generally distastes certain things (e.g. SEO). In Sphinn, getting to the top takes you about 20 Sphinns (a similar “currency” to Diggs), wherelse in Digg, it takes you about 60 Diggs. Of course, that may change soon in the future where Sphinn gets more members.

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