Drigg the popular set of modules which allows anyone to create a professional grade digg like social news system using Drupal CMS have recentley released a Drupal6 development build of Drigg. This is something that the Drigg community has been in anticipation of for a while and going by Drupal6 itself we are sure that nobody will be disapointed when the port of Drigg to Drupal6 is complete.
November 13th, 2008 | Drigg, Drupal | Lincoln | 1 comment | ContinuedDrupal
Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal - Part 2 Installing And Configuring Drupal And Drigg
Due to several work related issues it has taken longer than expected for me to publish this second part in our "Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal" tutorial, but the wait is over as this is the second part you are now reading :). Here in Part two we are going to go through the process of installing Drupal and the Drigg related modules along with all the configuration setting you will need to set for the system to operate as it should. We always think Pictures can be better than words for new users to any system so this tutorial will have screen shots of each step as we go, so lets begin.
October 22nd, 2008 | Drigg, Planet Drupal | Lincoln | 8 comments | ContinuedIntroduction to the Social Media Classroom Video
The Social Media Classroom is a free, open source online teaching tool that incorporates blogs, a wiki, forums, microblogging, social bookmarking, video-sharing, chat, RSS, and more, within a simple, shared interface. Along with the software, will be the release Howard Rheingold's "Social Media Literacies" curriculum and extensive video documentation and a collaborative community dedicated to sharing best practices. The Social Media Classroom team is Howard Rheingold, Samuel Rose, Max Senges and Brian Christiansen.
October 19th, 2008 | Drupal, Videos | Lincoln | 0 comments | ContinuedDrigg For Drupal and 10 Of The Sites That Use It
With the Drigg social news system for Drupal becoming a popular choice for starting your own digg, reddit or mixx featured website a common question is what sites are using Drigg. This article lists ten active websites that have deployed the Drigg for Drupal system in a live environment, we also only listed sites that are established, active and have made an effort with their site design
October 17th, 2008 | Drigg | Lincoln | 6 comments | ContinuedWPscoop: Wordpress Social News, Bookmarking and Networking
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 | ContinuedFoxieWire 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 | 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 | 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 | ContinuedDrupal 6.4 and 5.10 released
Drupal 6.4 and Drupal 5.10, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download
August 20th, 2008 | Drupal | Lincoln | 0 comments | ContinuedDesign Bump: Digg Like Niche Social Media For Designers
Over the past month or two i have been using a new social media site for designers titled Design Bump. Design Bump functions very much like Digg.com and the already established DesignFloat.com, members submit articles they are interested in and fellow members vote and comment upon those articles with the most popular being published to the main page.
July 26th, 2008 | Drigg | Lincoln | 2 comments | Continued