A quick glance at Hotaru’s demo site and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s just another open source Digg clone, similar to Pligg, Drigg and SocialWebCMS. First impressions can be deceptive though, because the moment you’ve installed Hotaru, it becomes...

Author: Lincoln on November 28th, 2009

Category: HotaruCMS

Tags: digg clone, HotaruCMS, social bookmarking, social news

Designfloat which first launched back in late 2007  was the first Pligg based social news site that i really used to any extent, back then DesignFloat was a great resource for designers and was growing in popularity at a very...

Author: Lincoln on April 23rd, 2009

Category: Pligg

Tags: designfloat, digg clone, Pligg, social news

Finally after almost a year without an update Pligg an open source web application that lets anyone start a digg type social news site released v1.0.0 RC1 back in January. So is v1.0 of Pligg everything users had hoped for...

Author: Lincoln on February 17th, 2009

Category: Pligg

Tags: digg clone, Pligg, Pligg Beta, Pligg RC1

Tony Mobily The founder of Drigg a popular set of modules for Drupal that allows anyone to build a digg like social news website has recently announced that he is leaving the project with immediate affect. What does this mean...

Author: Lincoln on February 10th, 2009

Category: Drigg, Drupal

Tags: digg clone, Drigg, Drupal, social news

Social Web CMS or SWCMS for short the popular social news php application that allows anyone to create a digg type social voting website have just upgraded the application to v1.1. v1.1 contains Numerous 'undefined index' error fixes and other...

Author: Lincoln on January 13th, 2009

Category: Social Web CMS

Tags: digg clone, social news, Social Web CMS, swcms, swcms update

Drigg for Drupal is a professional grade set of modules that allows anyone to start their very own Digg Clone type website, with competing social news systems having been the victims of spammers how can you prevent this fate happening...

Author: Lincoln on December 24th, 2008

Category: Drigg, Drupal

Tags: digg clone, Drigg, drigg spam, Drupal

Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is...

Author: Lincoln on December 1st, 2008

Category: Social News

Tags: digg clone, Drigg, Pligg, Social Web CMS

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...

Author: Lincoln on November 13th, 2008

Category: Drigg, Drupal

Tags: digg clone, drigg drupal6, Drupal, drupal6