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Create A Social Voting Community

By Rob Safuto on May 29, 2007 in Community, Social Media | Tags: , , , ,

coRank Digg is largely credit as the site that popularized the idea of social voting schemes for bookmarks. People submit links to timely items of interest and then the community votes them up or down. The idea was successful in attracting a critical mass so that meant a ‘roll your own’ Digg would certainly be on its way.

That roll your own Digg solution showed up in the form of the Pligg CMS. With Pligg you can upload and configure your own Digg clone.

Now the chain of development has taken another step forward with coRank. The coRank system allows anyone to build a social news site simply by signing up for their free service and configuring a site. No uploading of files or database creation necessary.

I haven’t tried out the new tools but someone should have told Guy Kawasaki before he spent nearly $11,000 to hack WordPress into a social voting site called Truemors.

At this point in time it seems that almost any technical idea can be rolled into a do it yourself web application. Its a very exciting development but surely a little scary to those making big investments in web apps that they think will be proprietary.

[tags]Social Media, Digg, Pligg, coRank, Truemors, Social Voting[/tags]

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  1. Guy Kawasaki | May 29, 2007 | Reply

    Truemors isn’t a social voting site.It’s a site to generate content, not rate it.

    Thanks,

    Guy

  2. Rob Safuto | May 30, 2007 | Reply

    Guy,

    I’ve visited the the site and indeed people are submitting content, which is the primary feature. There is a rating aspect though, with that ’score’ link below each item. Perhaps I should head over and start a Truemor about Truemors being a social voting site ;)

    Thanks for clarifying.

    Rob

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