How to make a social bookmark and social news

02.13.2009 · Posted in Articles, Development, How to?

How to make a social bookmark and social news : ( resources for developer interest )

To build a social bookmarking service or social news web site first look for the open source projects then seek the commercial ones ,there are many free and open source projects comes as digg clones and for bookmarking services :

social network and social bookmarking open source

Pligg
: is an open source social news CMS and network , ( Open source digg clone ) , it has many plugins and themes you can use , easy to install and manage .

Drupaligg: The Open Source Digg/Reddit Clone using PHP based Drupal .you can check out the demo in here .

Newscloud is an open source social news , it has its own style which is totally different than pligg and digg . Newscloud’s homepage looks more like a news portal .

Reddite
: is a social bookmarking service which release its own source code for whom wants to create special bookmarking service for their own . to download the code and read more about that .

Scuttle
: Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store,share and tag their favourite links online.simple and easy to install
and use .

MarkaBoo
is a web-based social bookmarking tool. As an experiment in open-source business models, The open source code is opening under a Creative Commons license to the developer community. MarkaBoo`s code .

Loudle – Digg Like Page Submitter : A “digg like” news submitter/voter (non-hierarchical editorial control for you wordphiles) created using industry standard PHP and MySQL.

GrabTheMic : is an Open Source implementation of community-driven news sites such as Digg and Reddit . It is powered by Ruby on Rails.

Vote up/down Package for Drupal – A plugin for Drupal CMS which can create a voting system which similar with digg.

PHPDug
- An open source digg-clone which support templates and has a very clean interface. It has several extra features such as automatically add stories from RSS feeds and multilingual support. View demo here.

Vote It Up
: wordpress plugin , is a wordpress voting system similar to DIGG . If you are a wordpress geek , that means you can use it to turn your blog into a digg clone .

Ma.gnolia.org ( M2 ) is the open source rewrite of the famus Ma.gnolia.com bookmarking service.

Gnizr
is an open source application for social bookmarking , to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify, share information, and mash-it-up with information about location. For more information.

GetBoo :
Web 2.0 bookmarking system, both social (with tags) and private (with folders). Import and export your bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Mozilla,Netscape. Admin management section, translations, groups, bookmarklets,Firefox extension, RSS feeds, and more!

Akarru
is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like ww.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

SemanticScuttle
: is a Scuttle based open source social bookmarking project , it has some many features over Scuttle as hierarchical tags, collaborative descriptions or OpenID authentification .

Feedmelinks : is another open source social bookmarking project , simple to install and easy to use . with many features included .

Jamss : is an open source social news portal CMS , DIGG clone .

Communitynews : Open source social news . its an old but some people like it .

Hamza Emadeen Mousa

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Hamza Emadeen Mousa wrote 474 articles on this blog.

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