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This is a list of social software; selected example social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact.
Social bookmark

There are over 250 Digg like applications! Without counting the +200 Social Bookmarks! (del.icio.us, RawSugar, Netvouz...)
This list should not requier to be as descriptive as for the Social Bookmarks list as they mainly all have the same basic features: Submiting, commenting and Rating or Voting.

• Digg-Style: A - F - M - P - S -Dotnetkicks
• Pliggs : A - F - L - P - T
• Non English Digg-style: A - F - O
• Non English Pliggs: A - G - L - N - T
• Misc
• → Social Bookmarks & Annotation
• → Ajax Startpages.
• → Social Bookmarking Tools.
• → Digg Tools.

Digg-Style:

These all have the same basic features: submit, comments voting or rating.

1. Autospies: NEW! for automibile news, does not have RSS support. [+07/07/06]
2. Blog Memes: digg-style with publishing and thumshots(with a update thumbshot button) exists also in many languages. (see below) [Engine: Akarru][RSS][Blog/RSS]
3. Bits of News: for news with images and scores.[RSS]
4. BlinkBits Multi service, now also has an Digg like button [info] [+13/07/06]
5. bytemycode: for code snippets. NEW! [+27/07/06]
6. Care2 News Network: digg-stye about the environment, human rights, animal welfare... an extension to the community website. (Thanks to Michael L.)
7. Catster: NEW! Submit, comment and rate cats. See also for dogs. [+13/07/06]
8. CC Hits: for creative common music. A Ning application with comments, voting, music player and more.[info][RSS][Blog/RSS][+31/05/06]
9. Curious Contraptions Community: A forum.
10. dealspl.us: NEW! For Shopping and coupons showing item photos. [RSS][+19/07/06]
11. Daily RSS: digg-style rss news and rating.
12. Dissect Medicine: for medical news. [RSS][+22/05/06]
13. Digg: THE DIGG, news with categories. [RSS][Blog/RSS][Links]
14. Diggers: by grou.ps, a wiki based digg with thumbshots and Ajax. Let's you synchonize with del.icio.us, digg or reddit. [RSS][Blog/RSS]
15. Diggnews: digg-style for news. [maybe Pligg]
16. diggtrends: for news, uses a lot of Ajax.[+10/07/06]
17. dzone: for developers resource. With small zooming thumbshots when hovering. [RSS][blog/RSS][+10/06/06]
18. Dogster: NEW! Submit, comment and rate dogs. See also for cats. [+13/07/06][blog/RSS]
19. eatmyhamster: Funny News, Stories and Videos. [Blog/RSS][+18/05/06]
20. Fanatic Zone Remix: For submitting link and feeds about Sports. [+30/06/06]
21. Fantacular: Simple text-based digg-style for news...for those who think digg sucks? [RSS]
22. folkd: NEW! Social network and bookmarks with digg like voting and a news section. [Review][Blog/RSS][+23/07/06]
23. gibbity: digg-style, rate and review games.[RSS][Blog/RSS]
24. Getcheatsheet:NEW! for cheatcheets [+26/07/06]
25. humdigg: news for/by the Indian community.[RSS][Blog/RSS][+21/06/06]
26. idigporn: for adult content.
27. IndiaGram : focused on India. Voting has recently been added to their Scuttle engine [+17/07/06]
28. iTalkNews: Submit, write, rate, comment, add related news and get paid. [RSS]
29. Jazznoodle: 4 political section: Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians.[RSS][+30/06/06]
30. Kepty: NEW! For writing and sub,itting, between Slashdot and digg. Conecept: When user's submitted or written articles is visible user's adsense also show. Has a lot of programming language support. [info][RSS][+10/07/06]
31. linkfilter digg-style with rating, has a Firefox toolbar and sidebar. [RSS]
32. livelocker: for videos, music, and photos. [RSS][Blog/RSS]
33. meme-stream: digg-style for funny and useful links. [RSS]
34. memigo : Text-based digg-style for articles with no categories. Find alike Users. Option for iframe browsing, user filter...[RSS]
35. MetaFilter Projects: digg-style for self-linking projects.[RSS]
36. MOG:(Millions of games) digg-style for games with an 'e-mail this' and a 'play this' button. [RSS]
37. motorpulse: For cars made using Ruby on Rails and Ajax.[RSS]
38. muti: reddit like for content of interest to Southern Africans or those interested in Southern Africa.[RSS]
39. Netscape.com: Now shows digg-style social news using categories and tags...[RSS][+15/06/06]
40. NewsBump.net and NewsBump.co.uk: digg-style for News with categories.
41. NewsCloud, previously CommonTimes: for news.[RSS][Blog/RSS]
42. Newsvine: digg-style community for news with tags and the possibility to create your own columns(write).[RSS]
43. newsgarbage: digg-style for technology news with up/down voting. [RSS]
44. NooZ: NEW For MySpace members and MySpace add-on widgets. [Blog/RSS][+19/05/06]
45. oKs!: digg-style for anything with up/down votes.[RSS][Blog]
46. OOZM: Search engine with digg like voting. [info][+19/06/06]
47. Pickstation: NEW! for music podcasts with feedplayer support. [+15/07/06]
48. Pixelmo: NEW! Video game related.[+18/07/06]
49. PodcastAlley: for funny podcats. Interface is a bit different but has all the features.
50. Protolize: NEW! Submit, review and rate web-tools. [+13/07/06]
51. Polidiggs: digg-style for politics.
52. qoolsqool: NEW! for educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. [RSS][+08/07/06]
53. Quadriot: for funny, strange stories.[+30/06/06]
54. Questionville: for voting the answers, not the questions. Has live search and sub-categories, does not support links.
55. Reddit: digg-style with up/down voting and Karma points, exists in 23sub-reddits have their own domain URL and can all be viewed on all.reddit, Not Safe For Work (Adult content.) is a sub-reddits. LipstickBlog/RSS] laguages. seems to be a new one.[
56. Riffs: for anything. a bit different, rating is the main 'BIG' feature with up/down voting, also supports images. [Blog/RSS/Atom]
57. Scooop.net: digg-style for special news and rewards. Does not have RSS
58. Scoopity NEW!: for non-stop celebrity news, fashion, and gossip using only tags. [RSS][+08/07/06]
59. Shoutwire: digg-style rating for news stories. Uses iframe browsing. Their LinkRolls show vote buttons.
60. Showbloggers NEW! for people that enjoy discussing, speculating or even debating about their favorite television programs. Uses WordPress.
61. ShutterSeek: digg-style for photographers.
62. SkimCSS: digg-style for CSS related. (maybe Pligg) [RSS][Blog/RSS]
63. Spankwire: like shoutwire for adult content. [via] [+22/05/06]
64. Sperocite: for news [+22/05/06]
65. Spogger: digg-style for 'digital news' with Categories(Channels), Voting, Themes, Karma points.
66. SpinSpy: digg-style for any link.[Blog/RSS][+02/01/06]
67. SportsBlink: for sports. (thanks to comment) [RSS][+22/05/06]
68. Strikr: for soccer [maybe Pligg][+19/06/06]
69. the best stuff in the world: a bit like riffs with social bookmarking. [+05/06/06]
70. thenorp: For adult content. It's classic view is digg-style.(Thanks to this list from an annoymous comment.)
71. Taghop: digg-style for links.
72. Tagworld Bookmarks: Part of Tagworld, Social bookmarks with private, network and public bookmarks... also available as TagWorld Blog widget.[+15/07/06]
73. Tendango: digg-style with community collections/listing and tagging.
74. Travelscoop: NEW! New Zealand Travel News and Travel Information. [RSS][+08/07/06]
75. UmmYeah.com: NEW! Ajax-based social video & news aggregation with digg like voting, tags and Karma points. Also supports file upload! [RSS][+08/07/06]
76. Upwarded: For funny videos, images, games & silliness with an Widget for blogs. By Philipp Lenssen.
77. Video Bomb: digg-style for videos.
78. Wizag: For feeds, previously called Diggol [info][+16/06/06]
79. Web Feeds digg-style rating for links and videos.
80. Weekendstory: NEW! for weedend stories with kudos instead. [+27/07/06]
81. Wikio: Private Beta. For news, also listed under search engines with bookmarking. Update: French Wikio has launched.[blog][+03/04/06]
82. YouPickTheNews: for news with a 'in-page floating div' systeme for rating, without comments but with email notification.
83. Zapzap NEW! Podcast aggregator in Engliash and Japanese [review][blog][+02/07/06]

The 'Lots of kicks' series, where you can earn with your Google Adsense ID. See here to get dotnet blog buttons.[blog/RSS][+30/03/06]:

1. dotnetkicks: digg-style for Microsoft development techniques, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, C++...
2. GoogleKicks: for Google related news.[+30/03/06]
3. kick.ie: Irish News.
4. javakicks.com: for Java related.
5. mackicks: Mac related.
6. mozillakicks.com: Mozilla news.
7. Sharepointkicks: NEW! for Microsoft SharePoint technologies.[blog/RSS][+07/07/06]
8. XboxKicks: digg-style for Xbox related.

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Pliggs or Menéame Clones

Pligg, originally named Menéame in Spanish, is a free CMS with tags, plugins, templates, icons, vote buttons, language customization, podcast support and advanced user profiles with gravatars...and much more. See about Pligg. [wiki] (Category added thanks to Damian)

1. ACC12: NEW! MyJoomla and pligg for Atlantic Coast Conference Sports. Has nice voting buttons with a hover effect. [+14/07/06]
2. AdultSharing: digg-style for Adult content.
3. adveracio.us: NEW! related to advertising. [+07/07/06]
4. All Things Dork: fans, collections.[RSS][Blog/RSS][+01/04/06]
5. answer.net: leisure.[RSS/OMPL]
6. APBNews: crime news. One of the first to use Pligg. [12/05][RSS]
7. Appslist: NEW! For software applications.
8. arm the mob: social, movements. [+04/04/06]
9. BARKS=BookmARKS: for news. [+19/05/06]
10. Bitch About Tech Dot Com: for bitching about tech. [+18/05/06]
11. binarylaw.com: legal, technology. [+02/04/06]
12. Blog Reporter: blogs. [+22/04/06]
13. BrainDigg: brain-related topics.[+01/04/06]
14. bridesinwhite.com: brides, weddings. (was broken)
15. Bringr: for women's intrests. (Thanks to Davak) [+02/04/06]
16. business-planet.net: news.
17. bythemasses.com: New York.
18. Clicktator.com: for links, ideas or news.
19. Collectia: ?
20. Commerce Bucket: for Business. Voting is completely public![+06/07/06]
21. crankk: for Cycling News. Previously cycleabout.com.
22. Cruisinaltitude Aviation News: for aviation-related news story.
23. DealDB.com: for customers and store owners to submit coupon codes.
24. Digpot: ? for Adult content. Look's a Pligg with no rating.[+22/07/06]
25. DealSpy: for deals
26. DigStock: for stocks, stock exchange.
27. Erotigg.com: for Adult content. (also in Spanish)
28. Fat Pitch News: for finance, invesment
29. Flogz: finance, invesment.
30. freethoughtfilter: for non-believers. (by and thanks to Tom Morris)
31. Fleshh: for erotic related.
32. Forums of India: for any news. It's 'article' section uses pligg. [+17/07/06]
33. fuddle-duddle: for Canadian political news.
34. Gamerbytes: NEW! For game related stories.[+30/06/06]
35. GeekCoffee: for Technology.
36. GoobToob: NEW! for video clips [+27/07/06]
37. Hitsmit: health.
38. hollywoodlowdown.com: show biss, movies. (was broken)
39. Homefinanceplanet: finance
40. HR salad: NEW! Human Resource related. Pligg.[+17/07/06]
41. Hugg(BETA): For green news. Pligg (Thanks to elsa)
42. Inbox News: for news.
43. Inbreaking(BETA): for links.
44. indianpad.com: for India news.
45. Indiefox: For Art Work [+16/06/06]
46. iseenews.com: for news.
47. KaBlogs: for blogging related stories.
48. LinuxFilter: for Linux related.
49. Marketpicks: finance
50. Medical Articles and News: for Medical Articles and News.
51. Meedio Idea: for Meedio.
52. mootion.com: for video related, colaborative Internet-Video programming guide.
53. mp3-o-rama: news and resources related to mp3.
54. musicthump.com: music, DJs.
55. n.ewradio: alternative music news.
56. Nabaza.info: for news
57. nastygrrl: for aldult content (Thanks to mattr)
58. Network Strike: security.
59. news.thetrc.net: Music, giggs.
60. newvoyagenews.com: travels.
61. Plue Balls: for comedy, viral videos, animations, funny news and the general weirdness of the Internet.
62. ParrotAddict: parrots
63. PhetchIt: general.
64. Pimp me famous: NEW! WordPress and Pligg. To submit videos. [+07/07/06]
65. Pixel Groovy: Tutorials. Pligg.[RSS][Blog/RSS][+24/06/06]
66. Podolicious: podcasts
67. porn.ucopio.us: NEW! for Adult content. [+29/07/06]
68. Prube: videos, images & games
69. Relishio: NEW! Automaticaly imports from blog feeds. [+18/07/06]
70. Save Social: For UK bargains, has also a US bargains version. [+18/07/06]
71. Scadart: general
72. Shakk.Us: for Entertainment.
73. Search Engin Epress: for search engins, seo, internet..,
74. smarkwire: for pro wrestling but does not have voting.
75. Seven Surfers: deals, bussiness
76. Snarf It.org: torrent indexer
77. socialporn: adult content.
78. Sportschalk: sports
79. SportsCast : for sports.
80. SportsFlip: for sports.
81. Sportsplugs: NEW! about Sports. [+07/07/06]
82. SpyMy: for the South East Asia region.
83. Staralicious: celebrity news.
84. The Lit List: for fiction stories.
85. The plugg: for media types. [+20/06/06]
86. TheNewsTop: NEW! Pligg, for any kind of News. [+13/07/06][Launched:26/06/06][RSS][Blog/RSS]
87. ToxicCyberDust: games.
88. Trade Rock Community: for trading and sharing music news.
89. Tri Hound: for triathlon news. [+18/06/06]
90. Tutorialism: for tutorials
91. Tutorialization: for tutorials
92. uinform: Like digg with categories, tag cloud, spy, blog widget...[+18/06/06]
93. VideoSift: The Best of Google Video and YouTube.
94. Virtual Homeschool Group: for homeschoolers.
95. Wobblog: for blogs with Haloscan support.
96. Yankidank: general
97. Zeropaid: for Bittorrent and p2p.

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Other Languages:

1. .N T.P.Y.: Turkish digg-style for Videos.
2. @News: Japanese digg-style for news.
3. 17dig.com: Chinese digg-style.
4. Bagook: German [via] [+18/06/06]
5. Blog Memes: Spanish, also exists in French, Portugesee, Japanese and English ( listed above).
6. Brevissime!: NEW! Italian, for news powered by symfony [+29/07/06]
7. Choix: Japanese digg-style, for any links.
8. cndigg.com: Chineses digg, same style interface has trackback.
9. CoRich Newsclip: Japanese digg style, is an extension to corich social bookmark service.
10. Creabits: Spanish for any news. [+30/06/06]
11. CSSlook: Korean, Public bookmarking, nice designe for nice designes.
12. diglog: Chinese digg-style.
13. dingr: Chinese digg-style.
14. Douban: Chinese, for books, music and videos. [via]
15. Ec Navi: Japanese digg-style for news.
16. eu curti: Brzilian digg-style.
17. Fresqui(Alpha): Spanish digg-style for technology.
18. Fuzz: French, digg-style for news.
19. Gwar: Polish digg-style.
20. newhots: Chinese digg-style.
21. newsing: NEW! Japanese, for news with different style voting buttons. [+27/07/06]
22. ihardware: Spanish digg-stlye for technology and hardware.
23. Kilasan: NEW! Indonesian, for any news. [blog/RSS][+06/07/06]
24. Krtica: Croatian digg-style.
25. LinkPost excite: Japanese digg-style, for any links. By Excite.co.jp portal.
26. Linkter: Hugarian digg-style.
27. livedoor Clip: Japanese digg-style, for any link. [+06/07/06]
28. MarkeZine: Japanese digg-style, for any links.
29. Mywowo: Chinese digg-stlye.
30. newhots: Chinese digg-style.
31. news2.ru: Russian digg-style for news, uses hierachical categories.
32. NUOUZ: French digg-style for news.
33. OKNotizie: Italian for news using Ajax. Blog button code here. [+04/06/06]
34. Oui-News.com: Chinese digg-style.
35. Populicias.com: Spanish digg-style.
36. que pasa ?: Digg-style for local news with podcast support. French.
37. Reddit: For bg, ca (Spanish catalan), de, eo(Esperanto), eu, es, fr, hu, hy, id, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, sv, tr, vi and zh!
38. Scoopeo: French digg-style where you can win prizes.
39. Tag River: Chinese digg-style.
40. wapher: Arabe digg-style for news.
41. YiGG.de: German digg-clone formerly called digg.de
42. vottie: Chinese digg-style aggregator for videos. [via] [+19/06/06]

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Pligg or Méneame Other Languages:

1. Acelérame: Spanish, motor.
2. AllActu.com: French, general.
3. Astroadictos: Spanish, astronomy. Méneame
4. BCNtop: Spanish, Catalan. For news about Bercalona.
5. bifri: NEW! Spanish, [+22/07/06]
6. chuza.org: Galician, general.
7. dev.polidiggs.com: Spanish.
8. Diggar.se: NEW! Swedish
9. diggba: Chinese.
10. Digg.lv: Latvia (thank you hellijs)
11. DoMelhor: Portugesee digg-style for news.
12. DjSessions: for DJ, music related stories.
13. Enchilame:NEW! For Mexican politics and technology. [+02/07/06]
14. Enosotras: Only for Shes. [+02/07/06]
15. Erotigg.com: sex, Spanish (also in English)
16. eucurti.com.br: general, Portugesee
17. Gba-flash: Video Games, Spanish.[+30/06/06]
18. iFaX!an: Chinese, uses Categories, tags and big thumshots. [+15/06/06]
19. Ingeniando: Architecture, Spanish.
20. ihardware: Spanish digg-stlye for technology and hardware.
21. InterNetMedia.hu: general, Hungarian
22. joomla.com.es: Joomla, CMS, Spanish.
23. linkk.com.br: technology, Portugese
24. linku.com.ar: general, Spanish.
25. livedigg: Chinese diggstyle for news.[via]
26. Marchate: Spanish for Travel.
27. Marketingrama.info: NEW! French for merketing using an Andreasviklund theme. [+17/07/06]
28. Medigg: Chinese digg.
29. MENÉAME: Spanish, for blogs. The original source of Pligg.
30. menearailes.com: RubyonRails, Spanish.
31. mingaco.com: general, Spanish.
32. miopinion.com: general, Spanish.
33. mipcdebolsillo: Mobile, wireless technology. Spanish.
34. mumor: Humour, Spanish.
35. Mundo VoIP: VoIP, Spanish.
36. neodiario.net: tecnología, Spanish.
37. Noticias.deperros: gods, Spanish.
38. noticias.fotoadictos.com: photography, Spanish.
39. Noticias.Kesar.org: general, Spanish.
40. Open Source: OpenSource, Japanese
41. Ouvi Dizer: general, Portugesee
42. paeva.net: general, Estonian
43. Rauru-block.org: Japanese, for technology where each entry has trackback.
44. Horno Recetaria: Spanish, cooking, recipies.
45. rockeame: Spanish, for promoting blogs.
46. Shaveh.co.il: general, Hebrew.
47. TapeMoi!: French digg-style for news.
48. Tùniti: Spanish, for comics, manga.
49. Tuteame: general, Spanish.
50. TV adictos: Spanish, for television.
51. Viadescape: journalism, Spanish.
52. Votala: general, Spanish.
53. ygriega.net: Spanish, for leisure.
54. Zabaldu: Basque, general.

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Misc:

Similar but are or have different voting systemes.

1. Arena: NEW! for submitting WordPress powered websites, the buttons counts comments, not votes.[+07/07/06]
2. aworldofhelp: Q&A and link submission, requires to login to see the rating button.
3. CrispyNews: Allows people to start their own digg, and share revenue. See MotorKen example
4. DarkEye: 9 star rating system. For nice designed websites with rating, where each website also shows a thumbshot and it's color sheme. [RSS][Blog]
5. Gather: Is a community with rating for bookmarks and digg-style voting for comments.
6. Logopond: for creting collections of logos with 5 star rating.[+15/07/06]
7. Snap Blog: Snap search engine's blog uses digg like voting.[info]
8. Tagtooga: Public bookmark dirctory with many many features, see here.
9. PodcastBrowser: is a private pligg.
10. Userscript: Has submit, comments and star rating.

Silmilar but are not:

1. Drew Curtis' FARK.com: has no voting/rating system
2. Slashdot: Is an other kind of famous website not similar but parallel to digg.com. It also has submit and commenting, no digg like voting but karma points. Slashdot sisters: OhMyNews, barrapunto Spanish (Spanish), SlashIndia (India) Slash radio similar to diggnation.
3. FeedButler: Resembles digg but only for feeds and without comments.
4. LinkSnarf: Simple social bookmarks with rating and groups, no comments.
5. Listible!: for listing where voting resorts each item, the most '+voted' links are at the top of the page. List commenting, not each item. Has tags. Listed under Listings
6. Listerlister: Same kind as Listible!
7. votelists: Same syteme as listible! with -/+ buttons. [Blog/RSS][+29/07/06]
8. Plueballs: for podcasts, has comments but no voting. [via]
9. Pikapet is a VS voting system like Ning's What's cuter?
10. urbandictionary: Even the urbandictionary has implemented up/down voting!
11. Yourelevatorpitch: Has 5 big square rateing buttons.: Q&A and link submission, requires to login to see the rating button.

Has shut down:

1. leve1: digg-style fors news, now redirects to RetroNintendo [-05/06]
2. 180° news: digg-style for news with inpage expand/collapse details. Seems to have shut down.[-06/06]
3. daily911.info: ???
4. politicalstuff.com: Politics. Pligg, not active any more.
5. www.shiiiny.com: Buffy/Angel. Pligg, does not seem active.
6. iTunesLove.com: music. Pligg, does not seem active.
7. athiphop.com: music, hip-hop. Pligg, does not seem active.
8. Funzai: Entetainment. Not pligg, does not seem active.
9. Qoosa.com: Pligg for open source content management system but is now a browsing tool.[+02/07/06][-15/07/06]
10. slackah: digg-style rating for slackers and productivity geeks. (maybe pligg)
11. Zumbalo: Pligg Spanish, for rap, reggae.
12. nfiltrate: promoting your band, clothing company, etc... Has changed. [-21/07/06]
13. BiBiLog: Pligg for video, games and funny stuff.[+03/01/06][-25/07/06]

For getting a digg clone yourself, see here

Have I missed any?
If you happen to see an error, see a missing service or that you're going to start a new digg-style service, please leave a comment. Thanks! :)

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PS: I've been trying to collect digg-style developers feeds but a lot of them don't have any blogs...why?

You may also want to see:

• Meme, Memetic search: Technique for tagging web pages that allows a better full-text search.
• Wikipedia: The Digg Effect
• Different kinds of social/meme/news sites: Good explanation by Mark Wilson.
• del.icio.us, digg clones and Open Source Social Bookmarking Engines
• Startups that Shutdown

Links from the comments:

• List of Digg clones
• Digg's Friends and Relations by Saurier: Here you can compare some vote buttons.

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