Is this the thing that will destroy Digg?

Digg has spawned a number of clones. some offering interesting and unique information. Others duplicating existing sites.

With a CMS such as Pligg you can quickly and easily set up you own Digg type site. It took me 30 mins to knock up my own Pligg test. It’s quite exciting when you realise you have your own Digg. The official site for Pligg here. You then realise the essential factor of a Digg type site is traffic and if you havn’t got any it looks a bit sad. It needs to hit a critical mass of users to be useful. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of links that some guy found.

It’s easy to get caught up with the technology. However, I see very interesting applications for a Digg clone, some I am pursuing already. For example, you could apply it to a membership site and have people themselves voted for instead of the story. A sort of amihotornot 2.0

I was surprised to see the number of sites already out there and according to Alexa generating traffic – yes I know Alexa can be gamed, and I know an seo site will be skewed because more people have a toolbar. But it’s the only metric I can get my hands on, so for what it’s worth I have listed the Alexa ranking. I should have listed the PR too, maybe I will update the post with that in mind.

SEO Mozz has a story about the space.

Pligg: a CMS framework to build digg-like sites

A list of Pligg Sites and Digg type sites

Politcal 700k Alexa
http://riggd.com/

Marketing 35k Alexa
http://www.plugim.com/
6k Alexa
http://battellemedia.com/searchmob/
400k Alexa
http://searchenginepress.com/
91k Alexa
http://www.marktd.com/

Mormon 300k Alexa
http://www.sustaind.org/

Celebrity 400k Alexa
http://hahahollywood.com/

Video
11k Alexa
www.videosift.com
70k Alexa
http://scooptube.com/

600k Alexa
http://shakk.us/
133k Alexa
http://mootion.com/

http://www.thatschillin.com/
305k Alexa
http://www.meme-stream.com/

Sport
500k Alexa
http://talksoccer.com/

Games
157k Alexa
http://www.gamesnips.com/
500k Alexa
http://www.gamediggity.com/
200k Alexa
http://www.gamelemons.com/squeeze/
300k Alexa
http://www.leetdaily.com/
160k Alexa
http://devbump.com/