This review talks about how I (Court Tuttle) hinted a few days ago that I was teaming up to release a new blog promotion tool. Rich describes how to didn't give a ton of thought to it initially and thought that it would be a widget or some kind of

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Some blogs have been covering news of a new Digg style service called Blogging Zoom. Is it a way to build massive traffic growth for your blog, or is it another over hyped flash in the pan service that everyone raves about before it fades out and disappears from the radar. Will it be the next StumbleUpon, or some other nirvana for your blog,

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If you are a web designer or if you enjoy reading web design-related articles, hopefully you’ve already come across Design Float. Those of us in the web design industry are fortunate that there are several useful design-related social media sites. If you’re looking for a place to promote your own content and find other items of interest, I th

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Every now and then we see post’s cropping up titled “Someone Stole My Custom Pligg Template”. The user more often than not indicates that they have picked up a strange referrer in their web stats? upon visiting the referrer they are astonished to see an identical copy of their pligg template that they sweat and bled over creati

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I discovered this great site the other day and decided to write a little blog post about it, really love blogginzoom so far and have found a few really helpful and interesting posts. Definitely on of the more professional pligg based websites and i will be using regularly, thanks to all the management, great idea, great executi

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Well i eventually found the time to update the Pligg Image Upload Module to be compatible with v9.9.0 of pligg without the need for the modules_libs.php hack that was required for v1.02. The latest version v1.03 of the image_upload module will work with pligg v9.9.0 only, story pages and index pages now show the thumbnail.

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The Pligg project has never been the fastest open source cms system to release updates to their code-base, over the past two months however it would seem updates to the project have went from a slow pace to a complete halt?. The latest release of the popular digg clone cms system v9.9.0 was released on the 1st January 2008, wor

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We had previous indications that the pligg team couldn’t handle criticism well from the experience of reading certain posts in their forums, now however they have turned to banning our forum user account for revealing that Pligg v9.9.0 is still vulnerable to automated PycURL bot spamming attacks. We posted a link in their forum

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Mixx is another user-driven social networking site, one of the many that are mushrooming lately. However Mixx is certainly not your average hastily-assembled Pligg clone sites. Barely less than 6 months’ old, Mixx has achieved a pagerank 6 and Alexa rank of about 5000. This in itself is incredible, but there is more.

Let’s

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In an article we wrote last month it was revealed that pligg had not been developed for months leaving lots of users worried about the continuation of the project. Information on this subject has been non existent over at pligg.com luckily a pligger named Dave Mackey the owner of informednetworker.com asked some questions that

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Deciding on the correct hosting solution for your Pligg or Drigg based project is as important as what system you choose to put online. Choosing the wrong web host can destroy a new web based venture faster than you can say 404 error, you can have the best looking most feature laden website in the world but if your members can’

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Get your Pligg install to auto fill the description box on step 2 just like Digg.

Submit a story, if the story being submitted, has the meta tag “description” filled in, your Pligg install will automatically enter it in the Description box on step 2 of the 3 step submission process.

Big thanks to Knight01 for his contribu

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Pligg the open source php web-script for creating digg.com like social voting web-site’s has today achieved a feat we doubt any other CMS system ever will, Pligg has landed successfully on mars!. No you didn’t misread i did say landed successfully on mars and unless i am mistaken it will be the first Open Source CMS system to h

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Last week we reviewed PornSifter a pligg based site focused solely on the concept of making porn related content like, news, videos and blogs etc a social affair. HotAphrodite is another porn related pligg site but this time focusing on picture galleries. Any user (including anonymous visitors) can submit new galleries and post

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We already know from a previous article i wrote about a pycurl vulnerability that pligg is a heaven for spammers, it seems that the country of India is becoming a particular nuisance for user submitted spam though. We thought it would be good to cover what options you have to cut down on user submitted spam, we will be concentr

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