Popjam: how to make a successful clone of Digg for English-speaking audience?
How-how - but no way! and I hear is correct, in general, opinion. Yes, and I understand that Digg is already there, and unleash a startup with a similar idea to a decent level - a task that is doomed to inevitable fEasko. We can say that 100% of the success of this fEasko provided to Nostradamus did not go. Why make a website with functionality similar to that already available on the well-known sites?
But - there is hope, and for good reason, many bloggers in the last year rushed to produce numerous "social sphere" on the engine, Pligg, similar to each other as identical twins. This "attack clone (a) new" sites go unnoticed, as a basis for copying, which is natural.
What made Brit Alex Tew, creator of the well-known in the deep past http://milliondollarhomepage.com/, undertake site development At first glance just copying Diggovsky humor section? Most of all - a deep and true comprehension of their current, rather than invented, the reality. And no joke - to play a little with the site becomes visible source of attraction that can assemble an impressive team fan site. This is especially fast work site and a modest, but playfully running and most necessary functionality.
When you register you will be offered first to follow the social sphere by other users to understand what was happening, and then create your own community with their followers. You can post pictures, videos and links, as well as to evaluate the rest laid out user-generated content, voting for him (within Popjam this action is denoted as "LOL"), commenting on or copying in your community, where it will be seen by your followers. Note that the usual function "sink" has no social sphere, which is good.
The speed with which you can vote, comment on, or copy the material leaves the most favorable impression. That is, a robust concept of the site and there is a good server capabilities. Is that enough to succeed?
Of course not. But:
Let us recall the name of the creator: who, if not to Alex Tew, know how to be a real funny website?
Secondly, the support group, represented by co-founder of Bebo Paul Birch, and Michael Smith and Tom Boardman of the Firebox is encouraging: the guys sure know what they do.
And third, the most interesting feature of British start-ups is that they stick together and support each other. Popjam immediately gained popularity among British businessmen and social network users, including many popular and active members of twitter. The ability to twitter to spread cool pictures lavinobraznomu known.
So for English-speaking owners of blogs with fun pictures pyavilsya another good source of traffic. The project was launched on 20 February, it is possible to break into the elite with minimal effort :)
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