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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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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