Confirmation that the Web 2.0 craze is not over just yet, YouBlogged, a Digg clone centered around bloggers has launched in beta. I thought the days of cute looking colors and striped backgrounds for website designs were over with but YouBlogged appears to be bringing them back. Aside from the design, YouBlogged tries to fill a need by being the premiere water hole for bloggers.
YouBlogged is based on Drigg which is Digg clone software built around Drupal. You should immediately notice that stories can be voted either up or down while there are six-teen different categories to choose from when submitting a story. One thing that I noticed is that their bookmarklet is only available to be used on blogs. I find that to be an inconvenience as I would much rather have the option of adding the javascript to my browser so when I come across a cool blog post, I can submit it to YouBlogged without leaving the page.
All in all, I’m not sure how another Digg clone will do amongst the sea of them that already exist. We have Yahoo! Buzz, Digg itself, Sphinn, Mixx, etc. Although I have to admit, sites like Design-Float.com have been able to be at least somewhat successful by being the social gathering place for a specific niche. I think if YouBlogged can polish up the design of the site, make it easy as possible for users to submit stories no matter where they are or what they’re doing, and a core group of people get the site rolling by continuously submitting fresh stories, the site just might have a chance.
If you end up getting a blog post of yours submitted to YouBlogged, let me know how it works out with regards to traffic.
To be honest I think YouBlogged might struggle. The design doesn't look particularly unique and there are already blogging focused social media sites out there, such as BloggingZoom.
Well, there is always that slight glimmer of hope but my general feeling is the same as yours.
I think that there are way too many social bookmarking out there right now. There are only a couple of solid ones out there, the rest need to retire
Same feeling here. The interface is not up to the mark. I think it will struggle to find it's place among the giants.
Appreciate the feedback, we are still in 'beta' mode and will continue to develop the site based on direct feedback from people visting the site and from folks like yourself who have written an article/review, this really helps us and we appreciate that.
We are a small development company and had originally developed the site 2yrs ago, but due to contactual/legal issues the script could not be used… Now it has been easier to use an open source code like drupal and wrap around our own code.
Look for changes to the site in the coming months, we did not want to hold back any longer the actual re-launch, but we hope to create a niche social bookmark for bloggers.
Please continue providing us feedback, all help is much appreciate.
Reuben
http://www.youblogged.com
Who cares, submit when you can and grab whatever traffic comes along…as long as it only takes a minute or two.
Thanks for the find.
That is a fair point Dennis, and with DIGG not really liking blog related content this could do alright.
Digg is a tad incestuous for me; never use it anyway.
While I admire their enthusiasm and so forth, my first thought is do we really need another Digg like site? As you stated also with the sub par design I think this site doesn't have much chance. If they are really determined to have a go at this fix the design and then maybe they can get people to look at it.
This is a GREAT find as Digg is too elitist for me. Thanks, and I just joined and have submitted a post.
I think there is nothing new in such types of sites since the clone script are freely available on the net of popular sites like digg,tinyurl,youtube..So I think no need to enjoy with such a site..
Great find