Last week we decided to run a live install of Pligg v1.0.0 RC5 as a test to see if the usual spammers would come to visit it, lo and behold we were not disappointed with around ten spam registrations per...
Author: Lincoln on May 25th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam
FAQPal is a new social news website recently launched which aims to list the best Web Developer and Design tutorials from around the web. There are a few other existing sites providing this service on the web Designbump.com, DesignFloat.com, Dzone.com,...
Author: Lincoln on May 23rd, 2009
Category: Pligg, Startups
Tags: faqpal, Pligg, web design, web development
DesignFloat has suffered more than it’s fair share of pligg related problems, hacks, database corruptions in the past so much so we wrote an article not long ago asking whether DesignFloat needed to move away from Pligg to survive. It...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: designfloat, designfloat hacked, Pligg, pligg hacked
Pligg are currently working towards releasing v1.0.0 of their system which is claimed to be an drastic improvement over previous versions of the system. Browsing their forums today though we came across an interesting post regarding a new Story URL...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: plig seo, Pligg, pligg 404, pligg v1.0.0
IndianPad is a social news website targeted towards the Indian language based community and based upon the Pligg system is suffering badly from the creation of spammy user accounts. What do these accounts look like and why are thy being...
Author: Lincoln on April 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: indianpad, Pligg, pligg spam, spam
So many things in life are obviously broken but how often do you actually look close enough to see these faults with a product, service or design? If your like me it would seem not often enough according to Seth...
Author: Lincoln on April 24th, 2009
Category: Pligg, Videos
Tags: Pligg, pligg broken, seth godin, video
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
Back in July 2008 we wrote an article about AutoPligg a tool which allows BlackHat type’s to submit stories automatically to thousands of pligg based websites to gain backlinks. Bookmarking Demon is yet another such tool that’s now claiming to...
Author: Lincoln on February 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: autopligg, blackhat seo, bookmarking deamon, bookmarking demon, social bookmarking