On a side note the new template on pligg.com looks like a little baby boys room very nasty design overall, I much prefer a less overtried attempt at being all 2007 and web 2.0. VideoSift’s new design for example used a similar blue color but done more professionally, if i wanted a pligg template constructed i would goto http://www.rommelsantor.com/.

Jeni

Pligg provides some core components that we found very useful; although, I feel that due to Pligg’s reputation as being a “Digg Rip-off” has limited their growth as a versatile CMS. There are some great mechanisms in Pligg, such as: membership platform, voting system, user linking (friends), and much more - typical components found in social networking sites. Pligg is a great NCMS (Networking Content Management System).

Nextwebstar.com is a great example of how Pligg can be configured to NOT be another Digg rip-off.

Cheers!

Michael, I agree with you, Brian is playing both sides of the fence.

Brian, you should be putting out a press release instead. Michael is under no obligation to say what you want him to say.

You asked my why we are moving off Pligg, and I gave you honest answers in order of importance - it’s true, we do have some misgivings about Pligg’s sale but I didn’t think that would be the main thrust of your article.

I can say Pligg has really matured as a product and any major site customizing it shouldn’t effect the sale price.

Clay @ AgentB.com

If Brian Houston couldnt see Techcrunch looking at the bigger picture that’s his problem, - good write up Mike ,reckless call on ‘mischaracterisation’ Brian.

I also think TechCrunch deliberately made the article misleading.
VideoSift admitted in the letter they were using an extremely outdated early beta copy of the open source project. Yet TechCrunch failed to mention that before this miraculous “Update”

TechCrunch and VidioSift also failed to see that if it wasn’t for Pligg there would be no VideoSift. No 1 million visitors a month. Nothing.
The way I see it, Pligg created their entire business. Yet you bash them.

So congratulations to VideoSift for their sucsess. You owe it all to Pligg.
And congratulations to TechCrunch. You just became the “Weekly World News” of tech news.

Here is the text from the junior member box that you are conveniently leaving out of your attack on our membership policies.

“Become a Junior Member

* Junior members subject to display ads
* Subject to initial video screening
* Limited submission of queued videos
* Upgrade at any time
”

basically you have to see ads as a junior member and you get less submission space. Almost every site on the internet except for wikipedia is ad supported, and MOST don’t offer an ad free version for a subscription rate or not. Even slashdot won’t let you completely opt out of ads. That is what the charter membership is about, letting people avoid advertising if they throw us a couple of bones every month. The people that take advantage of it are long term users.

Anyway as you were promoting jiggyme.com I would say that you infactual attack is probably motivated from some sort of traffic envy. Good luck with your beta.

Quoting from the page,
VideoSift is a community of contributors. You are welcome to lurk and enjoy the videos and conversation, but if you would like be a part of the posting, voting and commenting, then it’s time to take the membership plunge. We used to have a completely open registration. Unfortunately as our site grew, so did instances of self-linking, astro-turfing and spam.

You can start posting and commenting immediately if you are a charter member costing you $10 for every 3 months. If that’s now what they meant, then they did a lousy job describing the benefits of membership.