Advertagg, My Little Digg Clone

What's Advertagg? It all started about 2 weeks ago when I decided to see what makes Digg.com so special. Digg is a social news sharing site where people vote or "digg" the stories they find most interesting. Digg recieves hundreds of thousands of hits per day. It was originally intended for technology and geek news, which it's still known for. Digg members are the first to get leaks about everything. I started posting on Digg and watched my web traffic go through the roof. Here is an example of one of my best days last week.

I did alright on Digg until I was unable to post blog entries anymore. I can link to everything else but my own site. That sucks! You see, Digg members police themselves and report "spam". Of course my entries are going to seem like spam,I write about advertising. It just came to light that over 50 of the top Digg users are on the payroll of a PR firm. I did a little research and found out that the "social news" trend is on the rise. Remember Netscape, they aren't just a search engine anymore, they are a social news engine. There is a also Spanish Digg clone called meneame.net.

I wasn't spamming on Digg, though I was promoting my site. I first started blogging in late August, as an experiment to look further into blogs and the "new" web. Posting on Digg was an experiment in Web 2.0. This leads me into Advertagg.com.

Advertagg.com is my social news experiment. I figure I can't get kicked out of my own network. Advertagg is about creativity, innovation, and communication. It is as much about advertising, marketing, and technology as it is about design and art. I also made sure to include a section for amatuer and student work. It's still in the works but, I just finished making the beta version thanks to Pligg, a site that designed shareware to create these types of networks.  I'm tired. So please, take a look, join, and post an article or two. I would like to remind you that I am not a programmer so this whole thing still needs work. I just started testing it today. Feedback is greatly appreciated and if there are any designers out there that can work with smarty codes and CSS, I could use a lil help. Good night!

Comments

[Digg]

Seriously...I saw your Digg submission. Where's the "Powered by Pligg" footnote.

[Luis Carranza]

I mention Pligg on this post. I would normally post directly to Digg, but I can't. I had to post on my other site and link it from there. This is the actual story I was linking to.

[Sexton Lovecraft]

Rock

[Jeff Burkett]

Love the blog...but "self-digging" is a very big no no as it defeats the purpose of the system.

[Luis Carranza]

I agree. I was experimenting with Digg. But doesn't paid users defeat the system too. I create mine so that there is some "self-digging". You can't ignore it.