Pligg is for Digg as GetBoo is for Del.icio.us.
I was happily surprised to have found this open source project. Besides from being a website that can organize my bookmarks, GetBoo also releases the entire platform for download under GPL license. So, not only can I use their services but I can also copy it freely!
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Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
bluecheese
4 years 5 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
PLIGG is for Digg??
Don't you mean, "DRIGG is for Digg..." ?? :-p
totpunk
4 years 5 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago
wrong
drigg is for digg as http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ is for del.icio.us
merc
4 years 5 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago
Well...
Well, Drigg is under _very_ active development.
In fact, I've spent all day today working on it, and getting the new _major_ version ready.
Scuttle is a little "slower" in terms of development...