The most successful Digg.com Clones

On December 5th, 2004, Kevin Rose made history with digg.com. Kevin probably didn’t realize on that day that he is about to make a revolution with just $1000. Now leading up to finish two years, Digg.com is worth millions and is considered one of the top technology web sites even after Digg.com expanded its service to other markets. Now hundreds of community driven sites has emerged out of no where. In this article I am going to discuss about five sites that I have been following. These sites are considered to actually show its heads above the water compared to all others.

1. shoutwire.com – This is a general news site. It is designed nicely with a good layout.

2. netscape.com – Again another general news site. I am sure all of you heard of this and the controversy behind this.

3. techtagg.com – The first one with an approach to revenue share with its user. Good idea to keep their users for long time. Nice design and a different look to traditional digg.com site.

4. care2.com – General News site. Nice design.

5. meneame.net – Spanish news site. Actually a successful one for that kind and is open source.

I’ve gone through many digg.com like sites and was actually came to these as user friendly and has something to offer for users. Yes I may have missed some and if I did then post it in comments. Many clones have no user base and no stories. The owners may have put in a lot of time and effort to create those sites to be an instant success but something they need to learn is that “if you are not the first then don’t create the same unless it is with a twist”.

I have not mentioned about reddit or del.icio.us because they are almost like digg site but with a different purpose. Plus they are thousands of miles in front of the ones listed above.

Comments

[Jimmy]

Very well said. Shoutwire is probably the only one to replace digg at this point. However I also looked at the other ones you mentioned, I really like the techtagg one because of their revenue sharing. I am joining as we speak to take the 100% share option!

[Karen]

Don't even want to talk about netscape. Why bother netscape? couldn't catch up to the browser war?

Revenue sharing is something that I have been checking out lately for a community driven site. I think it is worth looking at for sites like digg. Big up to Techtagg.com for doing it first.

[Dave]

Shoutwire all the way baby!

[Digger]

Digg just sucks and the people there just sucks. I already have an account on all the above sites and they send me quality traffic compared to blind diggers.

[Frogger]

I like frogmeat.com

[Bypass]

Great article. thanks for sharing

[pippo]

Check out a good italian clone: http://ziczac.it

[www youtube]

Revenue sharing is something that I have been checking out lately for a community driven site. I think it is worth looking at for sites like digg. Big up to Techtagg.com for doing it first.

[plainbloger]

i dont know how successful it is but
i saw another interesting site. You are able to challenge other links. to see who has a finnier link. then users vote on it.. and winner gets points and points let you get extra cool features on the website.. well amongs other fun things

http://www.highcow.com/

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