We are currently offering individuals the opportunity to Guest Post who have something to say on the topics of social media, design, programming or open source CMS systems. In return we offer Guest writers a permanent profile section at the bottom of their post along with the authors archive page that contains Avatar, Short Biography, Email and a Website URL of choice.

As our regular readers will no doubt noticed by now Social CMS Buzz has a brand new look, the main aim of this process was to make the site blog, forums and pligg install more fluid for our visitors. Our great new logo is courtesy of GraphicsGuru owner of the fabulous foxiewire.com.

We knew that releasing a modified version of the Pligg CMS would be popular to some people and unpopular to others, but hey thats life, everybody can't like everything all of the time right? Pligg has always held a grudge against this blog because of some of the opinions expressed here at times about the Pligg system, but that's all it is an opinion and like anybody else we are free to express them usually with the content to back the opinion up. The release of Pligged v9.9.1 wasn't to gain buzz for this site as has been suggested by pligg developers, we released it because they hadn't released anything to the community for over 5 months simple as that.

HubDub.com is a new social news forcaster site with a twist in that it allows users to vote and bet albeit with play money on the outcome of news stories from around the globe. Unlike Digg HubDub only tracks stories that members decide are worth tracking and building a prediction market upon. This makes for an interesting mashup concept and is definitely a nice twist on what is an already over saturated social news market.

As some of you will know we have been having some problems with our store system, basically it’s not the best system for wordpress and didn’t work half the time. For this reason we needed to figure out a better solution, back in late February i tried to purchase pligg-template.com but the deal failed to [...]

Picture the scene: It’s 2:00am you have been editing your website in a live environment and oops something went wrong now your site is messed up or offline and it’s now 2:05am, you usually have three choices at this point…. a) Try to find your bad code edit and fix it. b) Restore a recent backup (If [...]