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The myths behind launching a Digg clone
If you've got Pligg on the brain and you're planning to become the next social-news mogul, a quick read-through of these 8 myths about launching a Pligg site is a great place to start. It may dash you're hopes and dreams but, better to dive well informed and headlong into a new project than to wander blindly and hold expectations that may not match reality.
If you're still not dissuaded from your quest to become a social news baron, the Pligg forums can help you weather the inevitable hardships you'll face along the way.
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Kevin Little said 4:26AM on 5-11-2007
There can be only one...Digg that is. The reason its difficult to capture Digg's magic is because there exists only a need for so many social news sites and Digg quite frankly has the best technology of all of them. Pligg is still amateur-ware.
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gexecuter said 1:04PM on 5-20-2007
the link is broken, alernative link?
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Upstart Blogger said 3:15PM on 5-11-2007
Hey, thanks for the link.
Pligg is still maturing, but it has a lot of potential. It would be hard to duplicate the success of Digg, but there's a place for Digg-like sites that focus on smaller communities.
I wrote the piece because I wanted to dispel some of the unrealistic expectations I think a lot of people have that they'll just throw up one of these sites and it will magically succeed on its own.
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