Blogg-Buzz: A Digg Like Site For Bloggers
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Those of you who use Digg might have noticed that it is harder for Blogs to get to the Digg frontpage (except for popular blogs like Problogger.net and TechCrunch) and bloggers also may get flamed by Diggers for submitting their own blogs. What’s worser is that Digg even started banning blogs like JohnChow.com and PaulStamatiou.com.
So for the past one month, Shivaranjan and I have been working on Blogg-Buzz which is a Digg like site for Bloggers to submit interesting blog posts and videos. When Shivaranjan was busy with his office work, I had help from other bloggers like Carol, Ashish and Sreedhar.
So what can you do in Blogg-Buzz? A lot…you can submit stories in Blogg-Buzz, comment on stories, spy on who is buzzing, find out the Top Buzzers, add friends and even send Private Messages to other Buzzers! So, it can be real fun once you start using it.
Blogg-Buzz can be useful for those who want to find the best content on the Blogosphere as well as for those who want to get extra traffic to their Blogs. And we will also try to improve Blogg-Buzz and make it something more than just a ‘Digg like site’.
Today, even though Blogg-Buzz is still in it’s Alpha stage, we decided to launch it so that we get feedback from more bloggers. If you find any bugs or have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
We hope you will enjoy Blogg-Buzz just like we enjoyed working on it. So dear bloggers, stop Digging and start Buzzing! 
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Posted on January 8th, 2007 | Category: Blogging |
Ajay
January 8, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Good to hear this comment
All the best on the project. Will submit my articles here as well.
Deep
January 8, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Nice, good luck with it
JohnTP
January 8, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Thank you guys, we will continue working and make Blogg-Buzz a good place for bloggers
Lovedeep Wadhwa
January 8, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Congrats and Well done.
Zigire
January 8, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Good luck!
menghua
January 8, 2007 at 9:34 pm
well done john… hopefully this site will be more successful than digg..
Ashok
January 8, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Best of luck for your new venture. Hope it will make its place in blogsphere.
menghua
January 8, 2007 at 9:54 pm
btw.. there’s some spelling error on the blog-buzz sidebar. Suppose to be Tag Cloud not Tag Coud.. maybe you did that on purpose?
JohnTP
January 8, 2007 at 10:12 pm
menghua- Thanks, I corrected it
sharique
January 8, 2007 at 10:52 pm
There is no political, sports or personal category there. Its just too techie
dEEPAK
January 8, 2007 at 11:15 pm
gr8 work man..
Ashish Mohta
January 8, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Cool Stuff.Make the blogs rock and tell you are wrting worth it.Spread the word…..
Jason Drohn
January 8, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Are you using Pligg to power it? If so, the template looks good..
Chris Lodge
January 9, 2007 at 12:10 am
Fantastic idea, well done!
I shall write this up on my blog shortly, and send you all 3 of my readers
Utah SEO Planet
January 9, 2007 at 12:43 am
I’ll gladly use an alternative to Digg. I’m so sick of Digg I removed the “Digg This” button from my site.
Thanks for the tip. I’m heading over now & chances are I’ll blog about it.
Madhur Kapoor
January 9, 2007 at 1:45 am
Nice work John ..
Jason
January 9, 2007 at 1:57 am
I’ve registered and I’m very excited to see how this project evolves.
fiLi
January 9, 2007 at 2:28 am
It would be cool if you were to implement Adsense and install the Pligg Adsense revenue module. Since most blog owners have an Adsense ID, they could get money for posting on what they posted on this site, which is something not found in Digg.
Good luck.
JohnTP
January 9, 2007 at 2:41 am
sharique- there is already a sports category and I added a politics category too.
Jason Drohn- Yes. But I modified the theme.
fiLi- Currently we do not wish to put Ads on Blogg-Buzz. But I will announce on this blog, if we enable that module.
All- After registering, please spend some time voting all the posts you like.
Alex Becker
January 9, 2007 at 8:48 am
this is awesome. If I come up with some quality articles anytime soon I will be sure to submit.
Ashwin
January 9, 2007 at 11:39 am
Good Luck with the site!
Raghu
January 9, 2007 at 11:47 am
What I like about Blogg-Buzz
1. Simple and clean interface
2. Focus on blogs - but how do you propose to control submissions ?
3. Willingness to accept that its like Digg - at least that itself can give you a lot of publicity to start with
What I dont like about Blogg-Buzz
1. Web Page Design - Definitely can improve. The fonts at some places are not matching with their status on the page. For example the fonts on the tabs at the top of the page are too small
2. If you intent of having the Top Buzzers section is to grow your network and hence grow yourself, then I think it has to come out cleaner. Nobody I think would read from so much information.
I just became a member on the site and am hoping to use it in the coming days. Let me see how it works out.
Vivien
January 9, 2007 at 12:12 pm
All the best to you, guys. Very glad to see an alternative to Digg. Really hope that one day Blogg-Buzz will become a #1 site for bloggers to submit their articles to and increase their traffic.
Cucirca
January 9, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Nice pligg website john.
Hope you’ll have many visitors.
Keep up the good work.
Robert Irizarry
January 9, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Wonderful, wonderful news! I’m very excited about this. While search engines have been generally good to bloggers, sites like Digg and Reddit have been very discouraging. It’s great to finally have an answer for us bloggers. Congratulations and thank you!
Enblogopedia
January 9, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Good Luck guys!
You are doing a great job.
Ramanathan
January 9, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Great work John. I registered myself. Excellent GUI. I will introduce it to my friends. Will buzz best articles. Keep it up.
Carol
January 9, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Great response from the people, John. I knew it will be like that and with a bit more patience and spreading the word, of course, you’ll have a even greater response.
Good luck and i’ll be here if you need me.
Amey
January 10, 2007 at 1:30 pm
that seems me great. nice and best of luck with your project
weirdoux
January 10, 2007 at 3:47 pm
nice effort, john!
hope there will be no “banning blogs” like Digg did… ha…ha…ha…
congrats from me!
GenXden
January 10, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Hey ! That’s a gr8 news ! Been waiting for something like this for a long time. I hope you got some kind of filtering so that we have all blogs n nothing else on Blogg-Buzz. There are other places for them !
Also… had another doubt… this would be a great place to put up best of our own blog posts., would we be flamed HERE to buzz stories from our own blogs ? I certainly hope not !
Good work John ! We all appreciate it.
JohnTP
January 10, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Raghu- We will try to get a professional design for Blogg-Buzz in the future.
weirdoux and GenXden- You are free to buzz your own blog posts provided they are good content.
Zigire
January 11, 2007 at 7:07 am
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the design… although I do keep typing blog-buzz.com instead of blogG-buzz! grr
Ashok
January 11, 2007 at 7:58 am
yes, I was also confused in spelling. First day I visited by clicking link. Next day I typed blog-buzz in address bar, then I noticed that it is blogg-buzz.
Garry Conn
January 11, 2007 at 9:58 am
Sounds awesome! Its long over due to have some Digg competition. A what could be better than having two of my favorite bloggers running it! Congrats and good luck! I am headed that way right now.
- Garry
r9stuido
January 11, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Great work guys keep up the good work!
Basu
January 12, 2007 at 10:36 am
I think you should look into the hosting: it takes quite a while to load. If you’re looking for financing, you might want to get in touch with performancing or PayPerPost. Good work though
Basu
January 12, 2007 at 10:38 am
another thing, you don’t have a Terms oF Service or Policy statement, I think you should get something like that.
Phalgun
January 12, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I have already started posting!
sourcer
January 12, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Nice
I just registered and posted a few stories 
I really like, I’ll blog about this service soon 
Srinivasa Ramanujam
January 12, 2007 at 3:15 pm
hi john, there is a problem here. i wanted to know who are all the people who have buzzed my story. so i clicked on an icon which says 12 buzz. when i clicked, it says 13 buzzed, i actually don’t know how to find people who have buzzed. can you please help me to find?
kingforce
January 12, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Heeeey John, this is a basic pligg script. So, why did u remove pligg link? Pls insert pligg link, otherwise we will add your link to our blacklist. Pls hurry up man!
ngoccan
January 13, 2007 at 3:28 pm
good work!
Sahil Gupta
January 13, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Best of luck bro for your new venture..!!
i really liked the design.. bt i think it would be better to place the sidebar on the right side instead of on left.
it will be more handy..( just a suggestion..)
and dont you think you could have chosen some better and more catchy domain name.. blogg-buzz.com has double g and a n unwanted character…
Sunny
January 15, 2007 at 1:43 am
there’s gotta be a serious competition with digg…
nikita
January 15, 2007 at 11:50 am
surprised… that’s a good site, nice to hear that.
thank you
Ryan
January 16, 2007 at 2:07 am
Great idea. I know Digg doesn’t want people to game the system, but there’s a lot of useful stuff posted in blogs.
Robert Irizarry
January 16, 2007 at 2:24 am
I agree with Ryan - I can understand Digg not wanting blogs to “skew” things but trying to take them out of the mix is a poor way of dealing with them. Blogs aren’t going away and sites like Digg will eventually have to find a way to accommodate blogs or face being replaced by sites that will.
Ryan
January 17, 2007 at 12:04 am
How’s the stability of the site? I tried hitting it earlier and it was down. Is this common?
aad_lfcfn
January 18, 2007 at 1:11 pm
this is a great news. thanks for the site. digg can be lame sometimes!
Ed
January 18, 2007 at 11:21 pm
“…more than just a ‘Digg like site’.”
I’m submitting everyday now. Thanks for a Digg alternative. Best of luck.
ars
January 21, 2007 at 7:08 am
more tool more easy for webmaster to maximize their web
Sunny
January 26, 2007 at 4:08 am
wow, excellent, can’t wait to try it
Srinivasa K. Ramanujam
November 2, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Hi john, blogg-buzz page is not loading
cyberst0rm
November 14, 2007 at 2:28 pm
The site is still down!
JohnTP
November 14, 2007 at 3:04 pm
We are improving Blogg-Buzz currently. There will be a lot of changes. When its done,I will announce it here.
Navjot Singh
September 14, 2008 at 7:47 pm
What happened to Blogg-Buzz? Its still down.