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

Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Slashdot, and so on. They are all great social news and media websites, but how do they rank in terms of how easy they are on the eyes? Here I will rank all the top social news...

Author: Lincoln on November 28th, 2008

Category: Development

Tags: social news, social websites

Pligg are currently Seeking User Testimonials from users who run successful pligg sites for a new proposed homepage section of the official pligg site. Pligg's owners say on their blog "We are redesigning our homepage and are in need of...

Author: Lincoln on October 24th, 2008

Category: Pligg

Tags: Pligg, Pligg Sites, pligg traffic, popular pligg, social news