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.

We see lots of social bookmarking sites that never really distinguish themselves from the crowd and all basically look and operate the same. poots.com is one of the very few we have seen that really brings something new to the fold with members being able to create cards to share and collect within the poots community.

The social news revolution has exploded into all areas of media now with players like yahoo, mixx and digg all now competing for the mass traffic in an already overcrowded market. We already know that if you blog posts is lucky enough to make the front page of digg you can expect between 60k and 100k of visits depending on time of day etc. With so many blogs on the larger sites receiving 2 - 5 votes are there any alternatives dealing only in blog posts? actually there are quite a few niche social news sites catering only for bloggers they wont bring a digg effect of traffic but they will help get your content more exposure than a 2 dugg digg link.

Pligg vs Drigg is a question thats commonly asked in social news circles, Tony Mobily the creator for the Drigg for Drupal project yesterday wrote and article titled "How do Drigg and Pligg compare?". If you haven't read Tony's article already and you are thinking of starting or already own a social news site it's worth a look and raises some great points although we do disagree with one of them, sort of...

Scour a recently launched social search engine which rewards users for searching, voting or commenting upon search results has just made it's first reward payment to a member of the site Peter Yu of British Columbia, Canada.

SocialBrowse which is backed by Y Combinator have been in a private beta testing phase of their services for sometime now. SocialBrowse has been described as twitter for links, the service however offers many more cool features than simply link sharing. Being that SocialBrowse is in private BETA stages you will need an invite to access to the site and available FireFox Plugin. SoclalBrowse CEO Zak Garbow was kind enough to provide us with 50 exclusive invites for our readers, the first 50 people to visit our unique SocialBrowse URL will be able to gain access to the beta service.