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
RunnerTalk is a social news / voting community website dedicated to the topic of running and the sport of running in general. There is no doubt that the running industry and marketplace is pretty huge and runnertalk aims to fill...
Author: Lincoln on November 13th, 2009
Category: Pligg, Social News
Tags: Pligg, runnertalk, social news
Back in Feburary of this year we reported the news that Drigg’s founding developer Tony Mobily would be leaving the project with immediate effect. Upon Tony’s departure control of his various Drupal modules including Drigg were handed over to the...
Author: Lincoln on August 8th, 2009
Category: Drigg, Drupal
Tags: Drigg, Drupal, 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
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
Social media websites have made a huge splash on the Internet as we know it. No longer do editors dictate what is news, and what is important. The power belongs to the masses on social news sites, which is a...
Author: Lincoln on December 4th, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: social financial news, social news, Social Web CMS, swcms, tipd
Working with social media poses a considerable problem. In most cases, social networks were not designed specifically with professional applications in mind. Look at MySpace and Facebook, two of the real heavy hitters. Both essentially began as places for friends...
Author: Lincoln on December 2nd, 2008
Category: Development
Tags: aggregator, social media, social news