Intel has joined the social voting space with CoolSW, a Digg clone for “Cool Software.”
The site is said to focus solely on business ideas, and is designed to tap into the opinions of the wider developer and entrepreneur community.
According to a report at Venture Beat, the site cost around $40,000 to develop and has been tested internally, with Intel soliciting views from its employees about the hottest software companies.
Like any good Digg clone, it appears that it hasn’t taken too long for it to be gamed, with the top result at the time of writing being for the Open Source CMS Joomla. Even if it isn’t gamed for advantage by some, it’s a little strange that Intel wants to use the site to find “the next Google” whilst offering it to the public; after all if the model does identify the next Google, wouldn’t everybody see the result and have an opportunity to jump in before Intel does?
It is only few % of Digg..
Not bad… I just registered it.
What is “Promo Code” doing on registration page?
$40,000 to develop digg clone? Maybe they should have hired some freelancers and get it done for 400$! haha
hmm…sounds like a user driven ‘techcrunch’
I got this error…
Server Error in ‘/ISN/Registration’ Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a “web.config” configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its “mode” attribute set to “Off”.
The next ‘google’ may not be in internet field; it might be in energy or medical sector. It appears that google and apple will dominate web 3.0 or whatever comes out of it.
$40,000? Why? It uses Pligg, and the customizations they’ve made are minimal. Who in heaven sent Intel a quote of $40k to install Pligg and create a custom template (and not a very pretty one)?
Interesting seeing Intel in the space of software discovery. I wonder if this was a totally marketing-driven project or if their is some genuine community interest.
… if so: give us a call Intel
yup, it used Pligg… why spent $40000 to customize Pligg? waste of money
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Well, the folks at First Round Capital did something similar (http://news.firstround.com/) but it looks like they didn’t spend a penny (they use coRank, featured on a recent article here at TC) and their site actually looks good.
They sure are using pligg. there is no doubt about it. i use pligg for almost 3 or 4 sites of mine. Infact the customizations are so minimal $40K for that is a ripoff. Hmmm
$40k for a Pligg install…I’m in the wrong business
This is 100% Pligg and I dont know why Intel spends USD 40,000 - just waste of their money - you can see worthfull template creations for Pligg under USD 500 with us, a few designs include http://modelz.greatinnovus.com , http://modelizeme.greatinnovus.com , http://tastymedia.greatinnovus.com an more functionalities than that is currently on Intel site. Intel should have contacted the rite people.
Disclosure: I am a lead developer at Pligg CMS, under the name dollars5
Geeze $40,000 to make… It’s embarrassing, talentless, and ridiculous expensive. Anyway, I’m very good with my English. But I have problem sign up with this one:
[ ] Yes, please send me the Intel® Software Network Newsletter
[ ] Yes, please allow other Intel groups with software related material to contact me.
I don’t want to check both of them. What should I do? I don’t want SPAM or Telemarketing junks. Where can I do click “No”. Is there such word “No-Nos” Intel inside?
Of all the companies Intel
Seems like software has become a joke for everybody.
Such a site for rating and publishing new software has been around since about a year and a half ago… This is not even a Digg clone… It’s a betamarker(.com) clone.
This is fun!
Vista only software!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
seems kind of cool
$40,000? Someone got ripped, since pligg is free, and just have to change a header image…
whatever, digg clones suck anyway.
Well Digg blows too. So it’s pretty safe to say its clones will as well.
Not only are they using pligg, they’re violating pligg’s license:
http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
Section 2 (d) If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program’s complete source code, you must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work.
Where’s the link to your source code intel?
I did it before: softicana.com
Intel have their review on techcrunch, but I don’t. Because Intel is a huge corporation and every single movement (even with ugly pligg-based website) is treated like something very-very important.
(hi to all russians here)
Um, 40k does sound like a lot, but you have to understand that Intel must PAY its engineers to work on projects (even with open sourced software). So, 40k is almost nothing when you are talking about a big corp allocating time and resources to a web initiative. That isn’t even half a years salary for your average Intel engineer I bet.
@Mike B
But any highschool kid can have pligg up and running in a few hours.
@Josh. True, but Intel isn’t a high school kid. Corps charge off employee time and internal systems resources to projects.
That pic just screams “corporate morons”, talk about lame stock art.
Not only are they violating the Affero license as #22 says, but they don’t even credit or acknowledge pligg anywhere on the site. Pretty bad taste.
Oh and $40k for a fancy pligg template…. they got overcharged by about oh…. $39,800
Intel with software products out of no where, must keep an eye on them
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
If Intel actually paid contractors $40K to develop this, it would be shocking! Using a single PHP developer you could add these customizations in two weeks tops.
Oh my $40K??? I can’t believe it. My site is better than theirs
I used the same CMS, pligg, eh. I can do the customization in 3 days and will come up with a better site , just kidding, LOL @ intel.
I like the idea, even if it can be gamed and removes the advantage of surprise for Intel.
what’s with the color?
i think is expensive for $40K. There’s a couple of errors in the site.
Yes they are using Pligg of course and $40000 is too much for pligg install.
Well i would suggest these guys to use Drupaligg instead of Pligg because Drupaligg (drupal+pligg) allows to add social networking feature along with voting api. I read about drupaligg in this blog: http://venturewoods.blogspot.c.....clone.html
Drupaligg ??
nice one..
Down at this moment and it’s been down for a while.