Diggita is a succefull italian social network devoted to news, it’s the italian version of the american social news site: digg. Like Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online
destinations to the most obscure blog, Diggita surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users.
Diggita is made with pligg, an open source content managing system, The main features that make Pligg unique are collaborative bookmarking, social networking, folksonomy and blogging. Each of the News links, unit of pligg content, has a vote button, URL and optionally a short description of news. Here Visitors are supplier, consumer and judge of the content. Every visitor has right and freedom to vote and veto any news item. At the end of the day, depending on count of vote news are either promoted to main site,or move or remains in incoming queue, or permanently removed from site. Being a collaborative CMS, Pligg sites grow very fast in terms of traffic and popularity.
Diggita using the inspiration of digg and the power of pligg made one of the biggest social bookmark in Italy.
It works with adsense revenue sharing so it sharing 50% of operating profits with google adsense between users.
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