How to create a social media site like digg, propeller etc. Is this a easy or complex task. Can a perosn with wordpress knowledge do it ?
The technical part is fairly easy. You can even outsource the coding, design, etc. Marketing and promotion is where you will have a very hard time. The competition is tough.
zexy i think your making it easier than it is, mate, bally, those are MONSTER sites, owned by corporations/company's of massive size. ofc they weren't always like that, but without some serious people, and ALOT of investment and making it your full time job, its probably impossible to build something that scale, besides, this niche is so crowded at the moment, its dog eat dog, and sites like this pop up every day.
You need to create something different from other people , create fresh ideas that people will love to digg it , bookmarking it and share to other people.
Without this you can be succesfull only at non-english speaking countries where this service isnt popular or people dont know it.
There are thousands of bookmarking site online today all created using the following CMS. -Pligg -Scuttle -Scuttle Plus The only thing people use these sites is for bookmark spamming.
In my opinion: It's not about how you make a social media website LIKE digg, facebook, twitter and so on.. but to make a social media network UNIQUE to what is already out there... because: most likely, many people wouldn't not leave these sites to join another one that's exactly the same (it's such a hassle.. and people have "settled" down in these sites already) If you'd like to make a duplicate: make it a smaller niche site.. maybe a social networking site that only pertains to golfing for example.. somewhere you can target a small specific audience (because there are people who are looking for such tight-knit communities)
Digg is a no-follow now. Use Mixx and also blog-like bookmark sites like HUB and Squidoo. Also use Reddit, Folk'd and Propeller.
Like someone already mentioned, it's better to create a small social network for a specific type of audience.
Those are very wise words. People tried to duplicate Youtube, and still do today- but how successful will they ever be? Not very. Think of the next greatest thing, get capital investments/angel financing and let it fly.
everybody have their own views ok - i know how to install wordpress. Is the pliggg software workd in same way. Regards, bally chohan
I will suggest you to look at Elgg opensource software - it is social site software which you can download from "elgg.org" - wordpress is for blogging and Elgg is for social websites. If you are interesting I can offer you webhosting with Elgg - Please PM me if you are want to know more. Thanks - Anuj Jain