WPscoop or "Wordpress Scoop" to give it's full working title is a social news, bookmarking and networking website dedicated to the Wordpress CMS blogging web application. Built using the Drigg for Drupal system WPscoop which launched around a month ago is the latest project to have chosen the Drigg system.
September 25th, 2008 | Drigg, Social Networking | Lincoln | 9 comments | ContinuedArchive for September, 2008
FoxieWire Reborn And Now Uses Drigg For Drupal
FoxieWire a social news site dedicated to Mozilla based news has recently relaunched with a new and improved system thats built upon Drigg for Drupal. Up until the recent change to Drigg FoxieWire was one of the most trafficked bookmarking site's that had ran the Pligg system.
September 25th, 2008 | Drigg | Lincoln | 3 comments | ContinuedBuild A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal - Part 1 What You Will Need
With Drupal having won numerous awards and become the system of choice for many professional grade websites it's still surprising however that many new Social News (Digg Clone) projects choose to deploy the Pligg system in favor of Drigg for Drupal. With this in mind we decided to start a feature of tutorial articles detailing exactly how to install and configure a Drupal Drigg based project, the articles will be split into separate parts and will detail every stage of setting up a drigg based project.
September 25th, 2008 | Drigg, Planet Drupal | Lincoln | 8 comments | ContinuedDigg Announces $28.7 Million Of New Series C Investment
Digg Digg Round Three, Digg the largest social news website on the internet has just announced a planned further Series C investment of $28.7 Million, this along with $11.3 Million already raised by Digg with previous funding now takes total investment to $40 million.
September 24th, 2008 | Social News | Lincoln | 1 comment | Continued45 Drupal Sites Which You May Not Have Known Were Drupal Based
Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Social CMS Buzz is what popular, well known websites use Drupal as their system, the answer is lots with Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros, Yahoo and Adobe being just a few of the ones we have listed in this article.
September 24th, 2008 | Drupal, Planet Drupal | Lincoln | 26 comments | ContinuedLemon Twist Pligg Free Template
Recently Pligg have semi released an edited open source Wordpress template titled Lemon Twist for Pligg, the reason we say semi released is due to pligg asking that You "Do Not Redistribute" the template unless asking YankiDank permission first?. This along with a few other naive errors breaks the original GNU General Public License which the template was released under originally by it's creator Chris Murphy of farfromfearless.com.
September 21st, 2008 | Free Pligg Templates, Social Web CMS | Lincoln | 6 comments | ContinuedDrigg Social News For Drupal Updated To V1.35
Drigg consists of a set of modules for Drupal that allows anyone to start a digg like social news website. Over the last few months Drigg has been gaining a reputation as the most advanced system for starting your very own digg clone website, with v1.35 of drigg recently being released Drigg's reputation as the professional choice for your project is stronger than ever.
September 20th, 2008 | Drigg | Lincoln | 4 comments | ContinuedSWCMS Releases Beta 2 and Roadmap to 1.0!
Social Web Content Management System (SWCMS), a fork of the popular Pligg social news project, continues to show its significant forward momentum. First sign of life comes from the release of SWCMS Beta 2. Beta 2 is a significant step forward over the code SWCMS forked from.
September 20th, 2008 | Pligg, Social Web CMS | davemackey | 1 comment | ContinuedHao Hao Report Switches From Pligg To Drigg And Explains Why
Hao Hao Report, a Digg-like social bookmarking/link sharing site that focuses on blog posts and news articles related to China is the latest site to move away from the flawed pligg social news system. Dao By Design who control Hao Hao Report have recently written a interesting blog post explaining why they decided to change from pligg in favor of drigg for drupal. This is yet another blow to pligg as Dao by Design are experienced pligg users which goes to prove the system is really only an option for the hobbyist and not for professional level deployment.
September 18th, 2008 | Pligg | Lincoln | 2 comments | ContinuedSWCMS Releases Beta of Akismet Anti-Spam Rewrite.
Over the last several weeks Informed Networker has worked in conjunction with dollars5 (a great outsourced development firm) to rewrite the Akismet Anti-Spam module for Social Web CMS. Informed Networker has released a beta version of what is deemed the 0.6 release over on the SWCMS forums. This module is backwards compatible with Pligg.
September 13th, 2008 | Pligg Modules | davemackey | 0 comments | Continued