Category Archives: pligg

A community site without a community

Posted on January 3, 2007 by

Taking a little time at home last week gave me a chance to play around with one of my experiments that was nearly at its end. FlipBait is a simple Pligg/MediaWiki site that pokes fun at the dotcom golddiggers out … Continue reading →

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How to offer simple RSS badges for your users

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

The key breakthrough that made it possible for YouTube to ride on MySpace’s heavy traffic coattails into its current state as a mass media service is the concept of widgets, often called badges in related contexts. Although offering widgets or … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, flipbait, how to, marketing, open source, pligg, rss, widgets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

A human-powered relevance engine for Internet startup news

Posted on November 20, 2006 by

Here’s a fun experiment in crowdsourcing. I’ve been getting overwhelmed by all the startup news coming out of the many sources tracking the interesting ideas and new companies hunting for Internet gold. Many of these companies are really smart. Many … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, collaboration, digg, flipbait, innovation, news, open source, participation, peer production, pligg, publishing, recommendations, social media, startup | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment