Fraxi - a “Ning” For Digg Clones
Michael Arrington
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Ning (and now flux) commoditized social networking and allow anyone who can click a mouse to have their own network. The same thing is now happening with social bookmarking sites that allow people to vote bookmarks up to a top list (better known as Digg).
There are scores of Digg clones already, of course. The most well known is Reddit, which was acquired by Condé Nast a little over a year ago. But there are also emerging platforms that allow anyone to create their own Digg-like site.
We’ve covered these as they launch. Our favorite is coRank, which recently relaunched and has a lot of loyal users.
Pligg is another - it’s a well known open source project that allows people to create Digg-like sites. Pligg was recently put up for sale, but as far as I can tell it was never sold.
Today Pligg announced (buried in a blog post) that the upcoming launch of Fraxi
Soon we will be launching a new service called “Fraxi” which will allow anyone to create their own free Pligg powered niche community with just a few clicks of a mouse button. For example if someone living in Miami wanted to create a social network for the citizens of their community, they will be able to create Miami.Fraxi.com in a matter of seconds. No hosting fees, no installation process and no time wasted. They can then concentrate on growing their social network instead of needing to learn the ropes of FTPing, monkeying with server configurations, setting up domains, etc. More information about this service and website will be unveiled soon.
Not much in the way of details, but the Fraxi site is up with a landing page. See this blog for more editorial.
Digg itself will likely enter this market in 2008, we hear. This could possibly be through an acquisition, although a source tells us this would be for customers, not technology.
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Ningg for Digg, sounds evil!
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I nominated Fraxi for a Crunchie. Did they win??
Man, Michael Arrington must have such a sharp eye to catch news between lines - I bet many would have missed the Fraxi announcement as it was deeply burried into that blog post - but he picked it up. Now I know why TC have been coming with great stories all times
@Dollars5, in this case, it was actually me sending him the tip.
I think using TechMeme’s leaderboard helps too.
how come no one talks about del.icio.us anymore? what is wrong with them?
So it is untrue (or no longer true) that TC only covers sites with VC fundings?
One way to improve TC is to let commenters add a pic insert in the comments.
You can size-limit the pic. Or just force it that the pic be on an external photo service. Yes commenters can include links.. but not displayed until clicked.
I nominated Pligg for a Crunchie also!
They should clearly win.
Best Boot Strapped Startup FTW!
if slow news day, mightbe try to mention of FeedSync (yes, from msft) but good stuff.
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/.....omise.aspx
I would still opt for a hosted networking site. A Fraxi site may be attractive but what if your site grows so big and suddenly Fraxi decides to close operation for whatever reason, then you don’t have control over your database and other files. It’s just my afterthought.
In the meantime, spammers have their day hacking Pligg-based sites:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/sec.....ligg-21169
Looks like there are more immediate issues to be aware of, Bohol.
Ning is coming out with Digg-like features I’m sure. And it will be the end of Fraxi. :F
Taga Bohol - Bai, I agree with you. If you don’t know nuthin bout “monkeying with server configurations” as they put it, you shouldn’t be in the tech biz to begin with! You either run a site, or you ain’t go no site!
One way to improve TC is to let commenters add a pic insert in the comments.
You know your neck deep in web 2.0 when you read:
“Fraxi the Ning of Pligg”
corank is awful compared to pligg, just too little control…as for “buried in a blog post” - do you mean that you had to actually read ALL the way down to paragraph 5? was that really hard for you to do, to read an entire piece of content? you must have horrible trouble with novels…
@ Noah: that quote just made my day. I couldn’t have said it better…
@snyggast #12 You don’t need to wait for Ning to come up with that as a feature, anybody can already build up a digg-style site using Ning’s platform, and once there is one anybody can clone it with the help of a simple bookmarklet due to the shared /cloneable/open source nature of Ning apps. Just look at cchits.org (a digg-like interface/website for creative commons licensed music).
Niche social media sites have experienced huge growth this year and this field will continue to grow in 2008. Companies and brands will build their own social networks to engage and market to interested parties.
We’ve recently launched a search engine that helps users find niche interest social networks and helps social network owners promote them.
Users search for sites related to whatever their interest is and webmasters submit their sites tagged with relted keywords.
The idea is that due to the increasing popularity and proliferation of niche subject social networking sites thanks to Ning et al, users have a way of finding like-minded communities and these social networks receive targeted traffic that helps build user base and monetize.
Please take a look! We’re still building the database. Feel free to register and submit your niche social network or social media site for free.
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