Digg clone spotted: Wobble |
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Received a trackback a little bit ago from my post on the hole in the Alaska Airlines plane from some new site called Wobble. Checked it out and seems like they are a Digg clone that might be automatically generating the entries and storing them as ‘wobbles’ instead of ‘diggs’? See this entry
This is the first time I can remember intentionally placing nofollow on a link in any Hmm post, so if this site isn’t some digg.com spam ripoff site then I’ll happily remove that and also remove this from the “spam” category. Honestly, I’m not sure if this plans to be a legitimate site or if it’s a new diggsplog variant?
Compare this:
To the real Digg.com site here.
Nothing wrong with clone sites of course, but my personal opinion is I tend to prefer the originals to copycats. I’m curious if this Wobble site has added a feature which watches certain blogs and posts the stories as if they were submitted by users automatically? That would be one way to start out with some content which seems to me along with getting users to use the digg clone vs. the original site the biggest challenge. The fact that it sends out trackbacks makes me wonder if other bloggers were trackback pinged as well.
With Digg’s success I’m kind of surprised that more digg clones haven’t emerged, but maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough for them? There is diggclone software available freely, so maybe now we’ll see more of these type sites. Also, there is rumour of a possible Digg API coming out (see comments) someday so that might be another possible avenue of rolling your own digg clone site.
I could see an active community site for a specific niche using a diggclone engine for sharing links among each other. Perhaps we should experiment with a HmmDiggClone? Might be fun to play around with, maybe I’ll download and install the program someday. What do you think?
As for these Wobble folks, are they on the up and up? Anybody know? Spam? Legitimate? What do you think?
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Of couerse look like digg but I think that can be very interesting. I see the FAQ and it have credit to digg…. also to reddit. It have some diferent like trackback, karma regulation (see wobblog.com/faq-en.php) anonimous voting that can be very interesting. It look focus in blogs (
I think that it´s legitime at least it credit to digg (Yes, of course we are influenced by other popular sites like del.icio.us, digg or reddit. Indeed, we love all it =) )
Comment by supersam — December 29, 2005 @ 9:39 am PST
There is some good opensource digg clone software available, check it out at www.pligg.com/forum
Comment by Pentarix — January 5, 2006 @ 6:05 am PST
There is definitely room for some Digg clones, as long as they don’t tread on the toes of Digg by dealing with tech news. There are plenty of other topics which could use a community driven news site such as Digg - I found this entry while searching for a music related clone of Digg and if I can’t find one then I may be tempted to create one using Pligg.
Comment by Steven — January 16, 2006 @ 1:28 pm PST
I agree. I got idea of creating digg clone with some other topic while ago, but never made it work. With pligg clone I am sure there will be a lot of these websites in future.
Comment by Marko — March 21, 2006 @ 10:50 pm PST
You know what is interesting is that there are already sites that allow you to create your own community news site (like digg). This space (for miniature digg sites) I think is pretty compelling, and I think eventually sites like crispynews.com sites will give traditional audience-focused magazines a run for their money. NOw its almost costless to start one of these suckers.
Comment by fanarma — May 1, 2006 @ 5:59 pm PST
[…] Back in December of last year, we received a trackback from a digg-clone website and was curious if there were other digg clones and software. At the time I’d seen a few, but many more have sprung up in the last six months. With AOL/Netscape now the biggest clone on the block, I thought it would be timely to return to the project and make some sort of formal list. This list isn’t all-inclusive. Criteria used were English-only digg-like sites and preferably those that appeared active and/or had a compelling niche topic/design. There might be a couple to be removed in this list but I came across 50+ to start out with and I’m sure some of you might know others I’m missing to add. […]
Pingback by Make You Go Hmm: » 50+ English digg clone, digg-type sites — June 19, 2006 @ 10:10 am PST
My favorite digg clone, is leetdaily.com. Its a news site strictly for gaming, but puts a twist on diggs by giving articles a Leet Percentage Rating. Really cool and innovative.
Comment by Ninjoah — August 12, 2006 @ 6:28 pm PST