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DIY Social Bookmarking site

October 21st, 2006

Less than 24 hours after lkHOT was launched, my friends at latapata decided to clone it. That’s nice of them, but I wish they had used a different theme at least.

Moving along, this post is all about social bookmarking, and how to make your own social bookmarking site (like, digg, lkHOT, and latapata).

What is social bookmarking?

Wikipedia defines social bookmarking as a “web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.” Think of it as you sharing your favorite links with other people (and voting on the best links so you get a link of what are that day’s best links).

What is digg?

Again, Wikipedia defines digg as a site that “combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.”

In english please..

You submit links to stuff you find online, and people vote on those links. If the links get a lot of votes, that link goes to the frontpage of digg.

So, how do you make your own social bookmarking site?

You will need a web host with php/mysql, and you have to download and install pligg. The software is still beta, so it has a few bugs, but it’s mostly stable and functional.

What’s Pligg?

Pligg is an Open source Social Networking Content Management System (CMS) Combining social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication and a democratic editorial system enables users to collaboratively submit and vote articles. (thanks wikipedia!)

…translation?

Pligg lets you homebrew your own mini digg. In short, pligg is a sort of clone of digg, which enables anyone to set up their own voting site.

What could you do with this concept?

How about a social porn site..? Lot’s of sites use pligg. To see a list, visit pliggs forum. 

That’s all for now folks. If anyone wants help on setting their own pligg based site, post a question here.

What next for lkHOT?

Any other features/ideas you can think of? let me know.

I need your help

If you read this site, please consider signing up at lkHOT. It takes just a few seconds. After you sign up, you can easily add your favorite links to lkHOT.

Also, if you have a blog or website, consider integrating lkHOT into that site so you/visitors can submit the current page/post of your site to lkHOT.

BTW…

I’m looking for new ideas for IT related articles to write. If you have suggestions (on new article topics, lkhot, or anything else), please let me know by posting a comment here.

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