Social Networking Is the Digg online community a good investment for Google? Digg is a organic news community started by Kevin Rose. There has been much speculation as to how much Digg is worth and whether or not it is up for sale. Rumors have it that Google is thinking of making an outright purchase of the online community. But is it a good investment? Will the community benefit from the sale? What does Google hope to gain? read more | Article  Social Networking  online communities Open source PHP scripts for online poker Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. In 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$ 200 million per month. Ever since the first online casino was launched in 1995, Internet gambling has grown exponentially, with estimated revenue of more than $6 billion a year and nearly 2,000 Web sites offering everything from sports betting, lotteries and blackjack to bingo. read more | Open source  PHP  Social Networking  online gaming  poker Why Digg is Not Interesting and May Die Innovation is a funny thing one year it can bring you lots of users to your website making people think that you are the next internet messiah. Kevin Rose Diggs founder will soon be kicking himself for not taking the money and running earlier. Digg is so not digg anymore. There is a total lack of technology news and the community is one that reminds me so much of the old usenet groups it sends a chill down my spine. Now that I think about it there is not really any news on digg any longer.... read more | Internet  Social Networking Where is AROUNDMe Taking Social Networking? AROUNDMe is a project run by the Swedish organization, Barnraiser. In a previous article we wrote about this very special effort to bring social networking software to the masses. Since then the project has changed. So where is the AROUNDMe project headed and what can we expect to see in the future? Here in an intervue with Tom Calthrop, the founder and project manager, we get the low down on the new software and some insights on Social Media on the whole. read more | Portals  AROUNDme  Article  Social Networking Aroundme Changes Directions and Loses Identity What ever happened to simplicity and keeping on track? These are two mainstays for success in developing software. Why the Aroundme project chose to throw out these things is beyond me. Once on their way to creating a popular PHP clone of the MySpace website they have changed directions and gone with some type of OpenSocial slash OpenID frankenstein. When we first wrote about Aroundme they had a decent offering for social networking software written in PHP. Though not perfect and anything... read more | Community building  Social Networking The Phenomenon of Wide Area Social Networking Everyone agrees trackbacks do not work. But now there is something else that could take its place. Wide Area Social Networking or WASN is a phenomenon that I first noticed at dzone.com. Will WASN be the next hot trend for Web 2.0 and will spread like wild fire over the entire internet? Can it be what trackbacks tried to be? read more | Social Networking  Web technology Pligg: An Open Source PHP Digg.com Clone In today's CMS world where Drupal and Joomla strive to be everything it has become necessary for newcomers to the market to make out-of-the-box names for themselves. Pligg is such a CMS. Installing Pligg gives you a Digg.com like website without knowing PHP or MySQL. Now you can build your own Web 2.0 website, exciting times! read more | Community building  Pligg  Social Networking AROUNDme: An Open Source PHP MySpace Clone While surfing around the different PHP developer forums and blogs I have seen the question of a MySpace.com clone come up more and more. The building of specialized social groups based on the MySpace architecture is going to be the next hot trend. But open source software for Social Networking is hard to find. The Barnraiser organisation is out to change this. read more | Community building  Social Networking

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