Comments on: Ximmy: A Digg Clone That Offers Users Money To Participate

By: fatlester

fatlester — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:39:05 +0000

Let’s stop calling these sites “Digg clones”. Digg sucks, and is inferior to Mixx, yet people still erroneously refer to Mixx as a “Digg Clone”.

A clone is identical by definition. Digg is on its way down the toilet. It is no longer the ‘gold standard’ of social medial. It’s time the blogosphere got with the times.

By: LincolnHawks

LincolnHawks — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:31:39 +0000

Can’t see tis working, especially if the PyCurl pligg hack is used by spammers to bypass the pligg registration process.

http://socialcmsbuzz.com/hacke.....-13122007/

The design looks pretty bad also with no real quality.

By: MIkey

MIkey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:29:18 +0000

LoL,

Really Nice Pligg site and free Pligg script..too sweettsss
http://www.pligg.com/demo01/

New search Engine & StartPage.
http://www.WireSeek.com

By: Martin L

Martin L — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:17:03 +0000

This is a Pligg implementation as can be seen from
in the home page.

I am looking for the source link that they should have based on the affero GPL that Pligg uses

* 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.

By: sdfsf

sdfsf — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:48:50 +0000

MS: the design sucks

By: MS

MS — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:06:11 +0000

What’s wrong with the design? It might not be as well thought out as Digg’s, but I think it still beats Reddit anytime.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:36:29 +0000

Ximmy sounds like an innovative idea. Pligg offers an adsense revenue sharing module, but this offers a more straight-up compensation model, which some individuals will appreciate.

By: sipboy

sipboy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:19:05 +0000

I really like the idea that there are actually some social sites that pay the people who do all the work building the site and creating value. I think this model will eventually falter because of spammers. If someone could build a better model of this, it could create a major shift in social networking. I have been advocating for this type of platform for a while and it is good to see it finally begin to materialize.

By: ghosts

ghosts — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:49:15 +0000

People are going to start abusing it just to make more money.

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:14:22 +0000

The design and outlook suck!

By: bmiles

bmiles — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:36:10 +0000

I think it would be a great idea if they offered more value than just payment for the same type of concept

By: nietsnut

nietsnut — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:07:12 +0000

The dutch social news website http://www.ekudos.nl places user Adsense beneath the description. In this way the contributors are automaticly earning a little cash when someone clicks on the Ad..

A paying system like Ximmy is another option, but i don’t know i it will work in the long run.

By: Steel

Steel — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:45:12 +0000

I think this entire UGC will peter out. People don’t want sites they have to pay to use. They want sites to ‘ pay them” They use the services of a site that IS free and next thing you know, they’re making demands of the site owners.This has all the makings of a huge house of cards about to crumble.

By: Daniel Gibbons

Daniel Gibbons — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:34:07 +0000

Sorry, I don’t understand why it’s “ultimately a good thing” to pay users for submitting and rating stories. Isn’t the whole point of social voting genuine contributions to the community, not mindless activity motivated by self interest? So yes, I think it is too much to ask to get paid for our participation, when it’s almost guaranteed to mean what we’re contributing to will be worse than if it had grown in a genuine, organic fashion.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:23:38 +0000

RBA:

That’s true, sorta of like paying people to go watch your movie to create a crowd effect, might work for one day, but not long term.

By: RBA

RBA — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:10:00 +0000

GK once told me: Do something so good that people would pay to use, not something so pointless you need to pay people to use it.

By: mmt

mmt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:38:17 +0000

they are not close to being first with this, and certainly not best.

http://www.bestcashcow.com has been doing this for awhile but with a better model. they share adspace so you can put up your own google, yahoo, custom ad. the site concentrates on financial services so clicks pay a lot.

you can post links or publish original content on the site.

By: sdfsf

sdfsf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:35:51 +0000

Cory: im thinkin the same thing, I mean I can create a site like this in a couple hours, this is nothing new, y does TechCrunch cover this over other sites that are at least a little more innovative.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:27:13 +0000

Did this site seriously get coverage? Seriously?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:24:58 +0000

I was thinking of doing something similar to my niche pligg site: http://www.iFili.com

I am not sure if a pay-per-post model will work and it might ruin the overall quality of the news feeds.

By: sdfsf

sdfsf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:19:07 +0000

Vic: they just removed the install folder, damn, i was about to refresh their site

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:14:05 +0000

I like the web 3.0 ananlogy. Look PeerIt.com has been looking to make money off this model since last summer. And they actually offer a store front that sells goods and pays out for recommendations.

Its a tough market to crack and its going to take more than a few cents to crack Diggs hold.

For the curious: http://www.peerit.com

By: gyula csocsan

gyula csocsan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:40 +0000

damon: perhaps there will be no web 4.0, if there is no solution in that algorithm

By: Vic

Vic — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:44 +0000

Yes, It is a pligg Site.

Duncan: Please tell him to remove the install folder, and remove install.php before somebody else decides to reinstall the site and start a fresh.

By: Humble Pie

Humble Pie — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:34:21 +0000

Paul
You know, Mahalo is actually working…